Thank you for the heads up! I’m just using the ordinary free version. I’ll not worry if it disappears 🫣

Just given the Herald full service getting it ready for a trip to Scotland at the end of April. All seems good, nothing broken and nothing worn out. Cleaned and adjusted the rear brakes, surprised how much they had worn but I guess that's due to going  down in the Alps during last year 10CR! Never happy with the standard spanner for adjusting the rear brakes, always seem to hit the tyres (5.5J). Ihave made a new one from a couple of 1/4" sockets and a cut down Allen key, a bit of araldite to hold it together, and then use a 1/4" wrench to adjust it. The square 1/4" drive side of the socket fits the adjuster nicely Seems to work very well and much easy too use that the standard spanner.  

I have no idea how Marine traffic calculates the route, but the basic info comes from the AIS data the ship transmits. @Hamish be aware the ship is going to "disappear" most likely, U less you have paid for the satellite version of Marine traffic. Nothing sinister, just she will soon be out of range of the shore stations. She'll reappear around either Madagascar or S.A. Regarding Suez/Red Sea, the attacks had basically stopped during the period Israel had stopped bombing Gaza. They have resumed at the same time Israel resumed attacks. The "enhanced" attacks by the USA on the Houtis were already well underway, one of the first actions Trump did when he became President was too authorise a far stronger response.

I would not want the rad fitted when you are doing that. I did and my rad sprung a leak shortly after. You could probably rig a few gallon water container/bucket with a takeoff for the bottom rad hose, and feed the top hose in so it isn't pressurised. Getting the fluid hot is a good thing, every 10degreesC approx doubles the rate of reaction, so going from a nominat 20 to 80 will make things happen 60 times faster! Worth bypassing the heater for that operation too.... except maybe a very short blast and then flush with clean water.

Hello All, Nick, three but the first one is not counted. The motor IS good so it was time to do something to the suspension as it was as bad as the motor. THE motor a bit more on that later.  I have been "lucky"? so far with that, so far the only things I have had to pay for are the Super Pro bits and the corner weight wheel alignment. Hamish, I am thinking exactly  like you. The car is also my road car! Colin, the first one is the revamped "Wakefield Park" and the next two are "Pheasant Wood" (named after a place in France, more to that story). Regards, Michael. 

The insurance premium required to go the short way is probably becoming uneconomic.  According to this site the premium for a single transit could be as much as $1m: https://www.shipuniverse.com/news/rising-tensions-in-the-red-sea-implications-for-maritime-security-and-insurance/

As we all know,  the details of the attack in the Red Sea on the Houtis, are public knowledge,  thanks to the WhatsApp group of the President's Minister of Defence - or War, or whatever he is called.   Maybe the ship owners decided not to risk that passage? John

I don’t know how “marine traffic” site gets its route info but it’s change and it appears to be going the long way round   

Bearing in mind your water pump will vary in speed by the same factor as your rpms, i.e over 8 times faster at redline than idle, a small % increase in speed is unlikely to make any difference.  Your issue is most likely coming from poor flow (hopefully solved by the citric acid), or a short circuit.  I'd look at both of those as culprits for major temperature issues, pump speed will be the final few % of improvement you can search for when optimising it.  It also looks like your raidiator is fully shrouded, and I can't see if you have the shrouding boards in front of it, could this be limiting airflow? Of course advancing your ignition can help, and taking off that pops and bang map will do wonders too 😜

Thanks all for the feed back! I now have some new options to try, specifically flushing the block with Citric acid mixture.  In closing if anyone has an opinion on going to a smaller water pump pully, i would like to know your thoughts. Andy