Triumph TR7 - Check;Top-Up Battery Electrolyte; Check;Top-Up Cooling System

MAINTENANCE AND ADJUSTMENTS
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Check!Top-up Battery Electrolyte
Examine the level of the electrolyte In the cells and lOP-UP
With distilled water If necessary The electrolyte level should
just cover the separators. More frequent checks should be
made during hot weather and If the car 1$ subjected to long
Journeys.
WARNING: Never us. 8 naked flame when eX81flining
the battery since the mixture of oxygen and hydrogen
given off by the battery i. dangerously explosive.
Check!Top up Cooling System
The pressurised cooling system incorporates a header tank
which provides a single point for coolant filling and level
checking.
The coolant level should be malntamed at 25 mm (l Inch)
below the neck of the header tank (1)
If the cooling system has been dramed the procedure for
refilling the syslem IS as follows:·
(t) Remove the header tank filler cap
(2) Set
the interior healer controls 10 the maximum heal
position.
(3) FIll the system until the coolant level is 25 mm 11 Inch)
below the neck of the header tank.
(4) Refit
the header tank filler cap and run the engme at
approximately 1500 rev/min until the coolant
temperature rises sufficiently to open Ihe thermostat.
(5) SlOP Ihe engine and. observing the warning below
remove the header lank filler cap.
Continued