4200 Engine fans question

[Zep]

This has happened a few times when the car wouldn't restart when hot due to overfueling. It was easy to smell. I haven't used the car much since late last year and when I did my first non short journey it came up with an engine management light and fault code PO128 or Thermostat. We reset it. It is still running cool. I don't recall if it was running cool late last year when I had the over fueling issue. Normally with old Italian cars I tend to watch if the car is running hot not cold so it is possible I missed it.

At present the issues are as above:

Both fans seem to be on immediately on start and run all the time. I think at fast speed. I think this has always been the case since I bought the car.
The car runs at about 1/4 on temp gauge and does not seem to want to get warmer.
When I stop after car should be at normal temp, say after 6-8 miles it is reluctant to start and there is a momentary pause and then it just wont start and smells of fuel. It restarts after about 5-10 minutes.
I have noticed the fuel consumption appears poor about 17mpg although it has mainly been short runs.

17 mpg? I never saw that with mine!

 

[paul328]

lol. On a long run it was doing 23mpg. I have always checked the mpg in all my cars since i started driving every time I fill up the fuel tank,

 

[doodlebug]

This has happened a few times when the car wouldn't restart when hot due to overfueling. It was easy to smell. I haven't used the car much since late last year and when I did my first non short journey it came up with an engine management light and fault code PO128 or Thermostat. We reset it. It is still running cool. I don't recall if it was running cool late last year when I had the over fueling issue. Normally with old Italian cars I tend to watch if the car is running hot not cold so it is possible I missed it.

At present the issues are as above:

Both fans seem to be on immediately on start and run all the time. I think at fast speed. I think this has always been the case since I bought the car.
The car runs at about 1/4 on temp gauge and does not seem to want to get warmer.
When I stop after car should be at normal temp, say after 6-8 miles it is reluctant to start and there is a momentary pause and then it just wont start and smells of fuel. It restarts after about 5-10 minutes.
I have noticed the fuel consumption appears poor about 17mpg although it has mainly been short runs.

These are exactly the same symptoms I had with mine, but in my case it was intermittent. It would happen consistently for several weeks and then it would mysteriously fix itself for a few days and then it would do it again. The fuel consumption dropped about 10% when it was doing it too.

In winter the water temperature was so low I had to have the heater temperature much higher than I normally would.

 

[paul328]

These are exactly the same symptoms I had with mine, but in my case it was intermittent. It would happen consistently for several weeks and then it would mysteriously fix itself for a few days and then it would do it again. The fuel consumption dropped about 10% when it was doing it too.

In winter the water temperature was so low I had to have the heater temperature much higher than I normally would.

As I live in Scotland, the heater is on quite a lot! I haven't noticed much if any change and it seems to work as normal. If set to max the gauge drops a small amount and when set to say 1/3rd after the cabin has heated up the gauge moves to just above about 1/4