We used to grass track and track day a Pug 1.9 GTi and these little French
fancies have an expansion bottle that also has a level sensor which informs
you of low coolant if you can find a working example (no easy matter cos its
French!) it could be used.
As some of you know I track dayed that great British kettle a Dolly Sprint
(retired now and safe in my garage) for over 10 years and sorting the
coolant system was one of the best things I did.
One little dodge is to have the overflow just under the bonnet beneath the
screen where it soon lets you know its blowing.
Good luck with this project.
Cheers Jon (2+2 RST)
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From: "jin" <[email protected]>
To: "Quantum Owners Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:07 AM
Subject: [Quantum Owners] low coolant alarm
Heres little winter project ive been working on
I'm cautious about loosing the coolant from the cooling system, I've
cooked a couple of cars to coolant loss and don't want this happening
here,
To begin with i downloaded the diagram from this place.
http://www.circuitsgallery.com/2012/08/water-tank-lowl-evel-alarm.html
i just upped the voltages to 12v, cost about £3 to make
the finished item looks like this, I've added a 12v flashing 10mm led
to act as a double safeguard because although the buzzer is loud, so
is the car.
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/jindal/2012%20quantum/IMG_20121228_100711_zpsa9494077.jpg
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/jindal/2012%20quantum/IMG_20121228_102121_zps5eb3097a.jpg
i was originally going to site the buzzer and LED behind the dash
switch panel but thought it may be better to position the buzzer in
the panel that used to house the radio joystick on the Fiesta.
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/jindal/2012%20quantum/IMG_20121231_231115_zps07d9f681.jpg
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/jindal/2012%20quantum/IMG_20121231_231124_zps4d4d53c5.jpg
the probes were made from M5 stainless steel screws with special
rubber washers fitted to the head and nut (both flange for extra
surface area) these were drilled into the header tank to just below
minimum level to alow for splashing and surging
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/jindal/2012%20quantum/IMG_20121214_071324_zps540ce09b.jpg
fitted with rubber sealing washers
drilled and installed into the tank itself
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/jindal/2012%20quantum/IMG_20121214_072822_zps6cd6064a.jpg
bit tricky to tighten the heads but i managed ;D
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/jindal/2012%20quantum/IMG_20121228_095723_zpsd4e4a2ba.jpg
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/jindal/2012%20quantum/IMG_20121228_095609_zps87db90b7.jpg
i then drilled the dash panel for the LED
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/jindal/2012%20quantum/IMG_20130101_110619_zps096fc727.jpg
and installed the buzzer panel
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/jindal/2012%20quantum/IMG_20130101_110657_zps354d9833.jpg
job done, click below for test video
[URL=http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o192/jindal/2012%20quantum/
VID_20130101_111217_zpsef477e5c.mp4][IMG]http://i120.photobucket.com/
albums/o192/jindal/2012%20quantum/
th_VID_20130101_111217_zpsef477e5c.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
all in I'm very happy, all that is left to do is buy an LED to replace
the lamp for the "fan on" indicator i wired in last year, this lamp
was fitted to the joystick panel but the new steering wheel obscures
it a bit and the buzzer now lives there anyway. ill fit this LED to
the dash panel by the water alarm LED.
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