Could you please send me a link to the owners manual website that you used for "Hot Stuff" details? Thanks. P.S. I own a 1973 Innocenti Mini Cooper 1300; red with black roof.
Update by David S. Wallens to the
Innocenti Mini Cooper project car
Jun 22, 2008
We were trying to get to New Smyrna Beach to hang out, but we didn't make it.
A simple hose clamp ended our evening early.
We stopped a few times to add coolant and made it home without pegging the needle.
We took the Mini for a little drive last weekend, and while at a stoplight the guy in the next lane gave us some bad news: Our car was dropping coolant. The temperature gauge looked normal, but we still did a quick U-turn to head home. As soon as we finished the turn, the gauge started to climb. We stopped a few times to add coolant and made it home without pegging the needle.
We pressure tested the system the next day and found that the upper radiator hose was a tiny bit loose. So in addition to losing coolant, our system wasn’t fully pressurized.
We have new radiator hose clamps to install, and while we’re at it we’ll take a look at the whole system—fresh hoses and coolant plus a new thermostat. We’ll also replace the 7-lb. radiator cap with the 13-lb. one specified in the owners manual. (An online Italian to English translation site helped us with that one.)
Could you please send me a link to the owners manual website that you used for "Hot Stuff" details? Thanks. P.S. I own a 1973 Innocenti Mini Cooper 1300; red with black roof.
I actually have a hard copy of the manual. I got it from Walter Miller: http://www.autolit.com.
And always cool to hear from another Innocenti owner.
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