SleeplessEyes, thanks for your expert explanation on this. Really appreciate this. Yeah, I would definitely prefer to be able to figure out what is the root cause and the culprit and fix that, rather than finding an easy way out and tweak other stuff. Well, bypass looks good, but I hope I don't have to do that

I'll send my car to a different workshop and see what they got to say about this. This time will focus on hose, plastic joints (where are they, I don't see any?) and whatever other connections.

All of you have been very helpful - thanks!!

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Added on June 12, 2007, 9:11 amJimmy, I do notice that when it jams, the temperature rises, and then the fan kicks in, and subsequently the temperature goes down slightly.

However it looks like the fan doesn't turn long enough. It probably turns less than a minute. Then it shuts off. Then the temperature goes up again.

You see, if this keeps happening, eventually it goes beyond the 1/2 mark and 2/3 mark. I just feel that the fan is not turning long enough or probably not fast enough. The car just unable to cope with the "stress"

i found some rust in my kancil 660 radiator  inside the radiator cap area, will can cause any problem?
i think my kancil never done flushing radiator before, if i do flushing will it cause leaking to the radiator??
if in case need to replace a new radiator, how much will cost?

mine one also like that, but i take my car to a radiator shop and tell him to clean my radiator, he opened it, showed me that only 3 lubang of my radiator is working. It is full with rust, i see he use some flat metal like metal ruler or something to poke the hole and all the rust come out already. then wash it kau kau. Done. the temp back to normal, no need to bypass a fan. then he ask me if i wan to remove a valve that opened at 80 celcius, cos he say sometimes that thing maby jammed and he say that thing is useless, he say that thing is usefull when u are driving in a cold weather. now no more heating problem, but i have difficulties to start my car on morning. now i regret already why agreed when he asked me isit wan to remove the valve.. but the great spot is my car now dont have any heating problem. now only 1/4. only when i drive it fast fast 130 kph then it will go 2/4.

Ecko, how does battery grounding and it being loose affect the indicator? Blur...

Btw, it seems I can't change the individual temperature indicator/needle. Need to change entire panel (including speedometer, mileage gauge, etc). Sigh.. How much should that cost?

Thanks.

Ecko, how does battery grounding and it being loose affect the indicator? Blur...

Btw, it seems I can't change the individual temperature indicator/needle. Need to change entire panel (including speedometer, mileage gauge, etc). Sigh.. How much should that cost?

Thanks.

i sounds not connected rite??sound funny rite??hehe...lazy to explain la..heehe

i dunno, maby it is the thermostat. i think its kinda a valve......... nvm my problem now solved, only i got gasket  problem with my engine. TS go flush it first bah, no need to get a new one. a new one RM 200+ Is APM Malaysia de radiator..

Hi all,

When driving non-stop (usually on highway), the Kancil's temperature is about 1/3 or 1/4.

However, when it stops or slows down at traffic lights or at heavy traffic roads, the temperature goes up to half.

If stuck in prolong traffic jams, goes up to almost 2/3, before the "red line" area).

Checked with the workshop - No leaking or loss of coolant. He can't even get the temperature up to half (the car is stationary, I guess need to move the car).

So, just asked the workshop to flush/wash the radiator (told me that 9 holes are blocked), and changed the coolant. Not sure if the 9 blocked holes are the culprit. Changing to a new radiator will cost me about RM270. Is that a fair price? Didn't change.

I noticed that Kancil has only 1 fan. This fan will switch on and off depending on the engine temperature and the some maybe 1 or 2 minutes interval (not sure about this).

I *think* the temperature goes up whenever the fan stops - I guess I can hear the fan is kicking in again during jams and the temperature goes down. And when the fan stops, the temperature goes up again. Is it advisable to switch the fan on non-stop?

Some other threads mentioned termostat - is it possible to tweak Kancil's to lower down the temperature so that the fan kicks in more often at lower temperature?
Thanks for your advices,
Garry