right today i went and bought some new rubber gaskets just incase. I have now steam cleaned my engine bay so i can see whats going on a bit better and cleared up all the dried coolant from around the stat housing, just got home and all is dry with no sign of a leak. fingers crossed its been fixed already and that was just the old dried up coolant from before.

I also left her running to warm her right up and the fans seem to kick in at around 105 degrees, but it doesn't look like its taking away a great deal of heat as the gauge doesn't really start dropping all that quickly. Does anybody know if the fans blow the air forward or suck it back in towards the engine? I've put my hand behind the fans and can't feel any air coming off them.

Pani k when you say you changed the complete thermostat do you mean the actual thermostat inside or the whole plastic outer casing too?

All fun and games just need to know she's running right before i really start having fun in her.