Not sure about the cherry flavour grease Flynn... 
Though with all the flavoured screen washes you can get now, it wouldn't surprise me!
I think Goldnrust now has a shiney new aluminimum one on the way anyway.
Shiny new radiator.. check!
It looks like a radiator... welds seem ok. As usual with cheap Ebay radiators, there was a little fettling to do. The upper mounting holes needed slotting a bit to line up, and I ended up re-drilling new holes in the lower brackets to line up with the holes in the car. That said.. it's a 50 year old car and my lower radiator brackets have definitely been 'repaired' by a previous owner, so it's quite likely that my car doesn't line up rather than the radiator!
I was reading about adey's rather lovely Dauphine, and his cooling woes and it reminded me to check some of the little things to try and help with mine. Firstly my electric fan was definitely bought as a 'push or pull' suitable fan, and I've been using it to pull. Had I bothered to actually look closely at the fan the blades are clearly more efficient at pushing and there's even a direction arrow on the motor saying to turn in the push direction.... I do find it irritating when parts are miss-advertised. Anyway, I've mounted it on the front of the radiator and swapped the wiring round, so that was an easy fix.
I've also used some left over foam to seal the gaps between the mouth of the car and the radiator. The gaping hole in the bottom of the grill there also got blocked up, just temporarily for now but when I feel like I wont entirely melt if I put some overalls on I'll make a nice closing plate from metal to pick up on the captive nuts.
The radiator fitted in the hole fairly well. The bottom hose was a bit of a tight fit, like the outlet on the radiator was possibly a touch large? but it went on with a bit of extra force and seems fine. The tapered threads for the oil cooler lines were fine and the oil cooler bits hooked up nice and easily.
So there it is, I put coolant in, and none of it dripped back out onto my toes, so I took that as a good sign. I hooked up a temporary overflow bottle, again a small mod that can only help, topped up the gearbox oil and headed out on a test run.
There is good news, the car didn't overheat! It worked it way up til the needle sat over the 'L' of normal and then stayed pretty solidly there, so 2/3 to 3/4 up the gauge. Picture of the gauge for reference.
Now from what I've read, the gauges are meant to be all pointing directly downwards in a happy running car, so that would be more like it is in that picture, over the 'R' or 'M'. But it's an old gauge, an old temp sensor and old loom, so I'm gonna see how it goes for a bit. Next time I drive it I need to remember to take the infrared thermometer with me then I can check the gauge against the actual radiator temperature.
What didn't help my nerves on the drive was that the illumination of the temp gauge is very dim and as it went dark while I was driving, it became increasingly hard to tell what the temp was doing! Might just be an earth or something, as the ammeter, fuel gauge and oil pressure are all perfectly visible in the dark.
Thinking of the dark, I was pleased to see that the ammeter was definitely on the charge side when the revs were up, even with all the lights and fans and stuff on. The lights were also quite good, considering, really not that different to my 10 year old Fiat's, so my H4 bulb conversion was worth it. I'm slowly getting used to the foot operated dip/high beam switch, though I did high beam a couple of people while I fumbled for the switch
The tale tail on the dashboard seems to have stopped working, which doesn't help! I think I might have dislodged it while fitting the new speedo cable...
So thats one bit of good news. The next bit is that all the gearbox oil staying in the car! So thats good. The gearbox is still changing up a bit earlier for my taste, so some more subtle tweaks of the kick down cable I think, but it could be part of the character of the box. I was glad of my modified valve body that offers me the hold 2nd position, nice to have that bit of control when I want it. Will be more fun when the engine is run in and I can stretch its legs a bit more I think!
I can also report oil pressure, once properly hot, is 20psi at idle and 50psi up in the revs., which is right on spec for a nice fresh healthy motor. This is with the 30w SAE running in oil, so with some 20w-50 should even be a bit stronger than that.
I made progress with the carb adjustments too, seemed to need it be to around 12 AFR at idle to get a steady 13.5-14 AFR once the revs come up/throttle came in, but it seems happy like that. One odd problem I faced was that pulling up to a stop from speed, the AFR would go lean on the closed throttle, and as it came down to idle it was at 17-18 AFR then the car would stall. A quick blip of the throttle as I came to a stop (heal and toe in an auto you say...) and it would go right back to idling at 12 AFR quite happily. Any SU gurus got any ideas on that one?
On the downside, by the end of the drive (about 45mins) the power steering had spat more fluid out. I did notice the steering got heavier when I was trying to park, which took a few minutes. I wondered if it could have been getting to hot? maybe I need to look if there's a way to bleed the system. Also the windscreen washer fluid bottle keeps falling off it's bracket, which isn't the end of the world, but I don't want it to get caught in the belts, also I don't want all my screenwash to leak away!
It still feels a bit alien to drive, I think I need some drives where I'm not spending practically as much time starting at the gauges as I am the road... and I'm making quite a list of snagging issues to solve over the next few weeks, but it's a generally positive story at the moment
Hopefully will get out on some more drives in the not too distant future, see if I can bond with the old girl!
Though with all the flavoured screen washes you can get now, it wouldn't surprise me! 
Shiny new radiator.. check!
It looks like a radiator... welds seem ok. As usual with cheap Ebay radiators, there was a little fettling to do. The upper mounting holes needed slotting a bit to line up, and I ended up re-drilling new holes in the lower brackets to line up with the holes in the car. That said.. it's a 50 year old car and my lower radiator brackets have definitely been 'repaired' by a previous owner, so it's quite likely that my car doesn't line up rather than the radiator!
I was reading about adey's rather lovely Dauphine, and his cooling woes and it reminded me to check some of the little things to try and help with mine. Firstly my electric fan was definitely bought as a 'push or pull' suitable fan, and I've been using it to pull. Had I bothered to actually look closely at the fan the blades are clearly more efficient at pushing and there's even a direction arrow on the motor saying to turn in the push direction.... I do find it irritating when parts are miss-advertised. Anyway, I've mounted it on the front of the radiator and swapped the wiring round, so that was an easy fix.
I've also used some left over foam to seal the gaps between the mouth of the car and the radiator. The gaping hole in the bottom of the grill there also got blocked up, just temporarily for now but when I feel like I wont entirely melt if I put some overalls on I'll make a nice closing plate from metal to pick up on the captive nuts.
The radiator fitted in the hole fairly well. The bottom hose was a bit of a tight fit, like the outlet on the radiator was possibly a touch large? but it went on with a bit of extra force and seems fine. The tapered threads for the oil cooler lines were fine and the oil cooler bits hooked up nice and easily.
So there it is, I put coolant in, and none of it dripped back out onto my toes, so I took that as a good sign. I hooked up a temporary overflow bottle, again a small mod that can only help, topped up the gearbox oil and headed out on a test run.
There is good news, the car didn't overheat! It worked it way up til the needle sat over the 'L' of normal and then stayed pretty solidly there, so 2/3 to 3/4 up the gauge. Picture of the gauge for reference.
Now from what I've read, the gauges are meant to be all pointing directly downwards in a happy running car, so that would be more like it is in that picture, over the 'R' or 'M'. But it's an old gauge, an old temp sensor and old loom, so I'm gonna see how it goes for a bit. Next time I drive it I need to remember to take the infrared thermometer with me then I can check the gauge against the actual radiator temperature.
What didn't help my nerves on the drive was that the illumination of the temp gauge is very dim and as it went dark while I was driving, it became increasingly hard to tell what the temp was doing! Might just be an earth or something, as the ammeter, fuel gauge and oil pressure are all perfectly visible in the dark.
Thinking of the dark, I was pleased to see that the ammeter was definitely on the charge side when the revs were up, even with all the lights and fans and stuff on. The lights were also quite good, considering, really not that different to my 10 year old Fiat's, so my H4 bulb conversion was worth it. I'm slowly getting used to the foot operated dip/high beam switch, though I did high beam a couple of people while I fumbled for the switch
The tale tail on the dashboard seems to have stopped working, which doesn't help! I think I might have dislodged it while fitting the new speedo cable...So thats one bit of good news. The next bit is that all the gearbox oil staying in the car! So thats good. The gearbox is still changing up a bit earlier for my taste, so some more subtle tweaks of the kick down cable I think, but it could be part of the character of the box. I was glad of my modified valve body that offers me the hold 2nd position, nice to have that bit of control when I want it. Will be more fun when the engine is run in and I can stretch its legs a bit more I think!
I can also report oil pressure, once properly hot, is 20psi at idle and 50psi up in the revs., which is right on spec for a nice fresh healthy motor. This is with the 30w SAE running in oil, so with some 20w-50 should even be a bit stronger than that.
I made progress with the carb adjustments too, seemed to need it be to around 12 AFR at idle to get a steady 13.5-14 AFR once the revs come up/throttle came in, but it seems happy like that. One odd problem I faced was that pulling up to a stop from speed, the AFR would go lean on the closed throttle, and as it came down to idle it was at 17-18 AFR then the car would stall. A quick blip of the throttle as I came to a stop (heal and toe in an auto you say...) and it would go right back to idling at 12 AFR quite happily. Any SU gurus got any ideas on that one?
On the downside, by the end of the drive (about 45mins) the power steering had spat more fluid out. I did notice the steering got heavier when I was trying to park, which took a few minutes. I wondered if it could have been getting to hot? maybe I need to look if there's a way to bleed the system. Also the windscreen washer fluid bottle keeps falling off it's bracket, which isn't the end of the world, but I don't want it to get caught in the belts, also I don't want all my screenwash to leak away!
It still feels a bit alien to drive, I think I need some drives where I'm not spending practically as much time starting at the gauges as I am the road... and I'm making quite a list of snagging issues to solve over the next few weeks, but it's a generally positive story at the moment
Hopefully will get out on some more drives in the not too distant future, see if I can bond with the old girl! 
The previous owner must have just thought the heater was rubbish and accepted it! Anyway, all fixed now and much cooler! 
