Essex lanes

Been an expensive week but I love it tbh

Well cracking day out at Essex Off Road, even better I made it home under my own power for once.
Was a nice collection of trucks down there today, think i'll be there to watch the punch hunt in November.

Chris, that'll make Jon dirt newbie angry! That truck had never seen so much mud!!

Ha ha I know, he should have know that when he sold it to me.

Ok I have a problem! Lol ... I lost a load of water a few months ago out of the egr sensor plug thing that sits on top of the engine - so that got replaced topped up the water and bled the system and everything was fine. . Done a few miles here there and everywhere! And yesterday drove it 30 miles on dual carriageway and had no heating, engine temp was sitting in middle, it was on the way home I noticed the engine temp rising, so so I stopped and went to add some water and noticed there was water around the filler cap (maybe I need a new one) or could it be a broken thermostat not letting water through so it's causing back pressure and making filler cap valve leak. . Head gasket is ok - what should I do first!

Exactly the same symptoms as my old one. We thought air lock, tried bleeding it loads of times and nothing. It was the head gasket

Drizz said:

Exactly the same symptoms as my old one. We thought air lock, tried bleeding it loads of times and nothing. It was the head gasket

Click to expand...

Fantastic news lol

I have read that a closed/blocked thermostat would cause back pressure of steam and so consequently water loss, think I'm gonna take thermostat out (and freeze in the winter months)

I just had the same with mine. Fitted Dan's 300 engine, new water pump, heater matrix & thermostat but was still over heating.
I'd get a sniff test done or check you don't have air bubbles blowing out your header tank before you start pulling it apart.
I replaced everything on mine, even the head gasket just to make sure but I was lucky mine turned out to be I used the 200 rad but it didn't like it, new rad & it sorted it.

Do the cheap things first

Drizz said:

Exactly the same symptoms as my old one. We thought air lock, tried bleeding it loads of times and nothing. It was the head gasket

Click to expand...

Break it to him gently,why dont you.

wickford90 said:

Break it to him gently,why dont you.

Click to expand...

He did. lol

It's F**KED buy a new engine.

He rang me earlier and I explained how to test a thermostat and apparently it doesn't open in a pot of boiling water so that may be the answer.

Fingers crossed.

More amazing still is I haven't blown the head gasket yet. Usually standard disaster within a couple of weeks of ownership.

No chance there mate, Mikey changed it, now it will last at least another 100'000 miles.

Brian S said:

No chance there mate, Mikey changed it, now it will last at least another 100'000 miles.

Click to expand...

What, touch it, break it Copping. I don't think so

666 george said:

I just had the same with mine. Fitted Dan's 300 engine, new water pump, heater matrix & thermostat but was still over heating.
I'd get a sniff test done or check you don't have air bubbles blowing out your header tank before you start pulling it apart.
I replaced everything on mine, even the head gasket just to make sure but I was lucky mine turned out to be I used the 200 rad but it didn't like it, new rad & it sorted it.

Do the cheap things first

Click to expand...

My mate tested the head gasket today that's all ok new thermostat fitted but still no hot air, so now I'm gonna change the water pump can hear the bearings in there rattling around! (Still doesn't explain where my waters been going)

You may want to do the P gasket at the same time. Just have to take the rest of the casing off.

djguy said:

My mate tested the head gasket today that's all ok new thermostat fitted but still no hot air, so now I'm gonna change the water pump can hear the bearings in there rattling around! (Still doesn't explain where my waters been going)

Click to expand...

how was head gasket tested??

Thor1950 said:

how was head gasket tested??

Click to expand...

He put some blue stuff in a big test tube and wedged it in to the header tank and pumped it (it looked kinda sexual) but apparently it checks for ex hurst gasses in the water or something! Lol

666 george said:

You may want to do the P gasket at the same time. Just have to take the rest of the casing off.

Click to expand...

Yeah I'm gonna get one there only a few £