Driving home a few days ago my 1.8 Freelander started coughing a bit. Got home to find no water in cooling system and cream replacing engine oil. The K series strikes again. Called AA to get a tow to garage. AA diagnosed as head gasket gone to to stuck thermostat - overheating of engine etc. At no time did temp light come on or guage move from normal. AA guy told me there is some kind of conversion available that moves temp sensor to a new position on top hose. Any body know anything about it or where i might get one?
Cooked 1.8
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Hey Tony T, join the club. I think we've all had head gaskets fail here including my 2.5 litre V6.
Anyway, there is a mod I beleive which involves the thermostat. I thought it was purely a new thermostat which re-acted at a different temperature, keeping the engine cooler.
Anyway, there is a mod I beleive which involves the thermostat. I thought it was purely a new thermostat which re-acted at a different temperature, keeping the engine cooler.
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have any of you tried running without a thermostat in 
LR GUY
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the modification is a new radiator hose which includes a thermostat, with this you also fit a modified header tank and cap(allready fitted on later models) you need to remove the old thermostat from the rear of the block though,as marksurry says it is for better engine cooling.
the latest fix from landrover is yes youve guessed it and about time too, multi layer steel headgasket as used in kv6 engines, also to fit at the same time a new bearing ladder frame (the part that the head bolts screw into).
the latest fix from landrover is yes youve guessed it and about time too, multi layer steel headgasket as used in kv6 engines, also to fit at the same time a new bearing ladder frame (the part that the head bolts screw into).
lets say i hope it go`s about 76,000 that will do me as i`m on 48,000 now so have a couple of years, when they did do my 2002 they did replace the coolent bottle and i`m convinced that as helped matters by letting it breath better,and yes mine as the later remote mounted thermostat set up ,i still see loads of R reg ones around that have never had the head gasket probs and thay have 100,000miles on the clock so who knows
