Liquid in Drivers Footwell

supapete said:

WILLS. Who is that masked man? I cannot thank you enough for this informative advice and the amazing link. I've actually got at these perishers after the type of creativity mentioned in the text with a little added of my own. Range rover say 9hours for this job whether it's the rings or the matrix. 9x£90=£881+vat plus two bob for the rings. Is that a westminster you've got there? Thanks again. best regards P.S...........I'm editing this post as I pressed the wrong handles and, after seeing your profile, I thought I'd better put 9x£90=£810. I think you're lying about your age, as well. P.S

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glad you got it sorted they are buggers to do but as you say, it far better tackling it yourself rather than paying LR to do it! Plus its good to know how the vehicle is put together

As for my Range Rover, its a 1998 DSE. However its a special edition (so i understand) and has everything from a HSE, the HK sound system, electirc seats, colour coded bumpers/mirrors etc etc

As for my age, thats no lie, I turned 21 at the end of March. I got my Range Rover a couple of months before I was 20 and the rest is history, never thought I could get so involved with one object

-Wills

Well, I guess you must have been carried off as an infant by a pack of range rovers and raised by them. As you're not lying about your age, I'd better mention that two bob = 2 shillings written 2s [e.g £1 2s 6d-d=penny]. It is infact a ten pence piece. There, that's a bit of knowledge for you. regards P.S

O.K, this topic is splattered all over the forum so, if it's o.k to do so, I'd like to continue the saga. My problem started with a boil-up and the temp guage needle going full right with the red light coming on. The guy behind me kindly follwed me onto a car park to tell me I'd been irrigating the road for a mile or two. I cooled off, refilled in the correct way and continued on my journey. I had the system checked over by the AA and no combustion gases were found and an air lock was suspected. I noticed the coolant pool on the footwell much later and the rest you know. I've never since overheated, in fact according to the guage I'm running cool even though the heater works fine[climate control]. The tophose feels hard as hell all the time. A trickle at tickover from the rad bleed with a steady spurt at fast tickover is evident. I've changed the O rings and the temperature is still low and the tophose is still firm. There's a fraction of give in it but you'd really have to want to squash it badly. I've double checked on the combustion gases thing with none evident. I'm getting a new header tank cap tomorrow or so, but I'd like some kind of reassurance-or otherwise asap. Also, how many screws should you have left over after changing the O rings using the creative method?There's also a white connector dangling behind the big panel under the steering column which I can't find a home for. Everything's working with no messages on the readout screen. Have I forgotten to plug it in somewhere? Best regards all, P.S

AIR LOCK CONTACT. I'm posting this simply to draw my system pressurising to a conclusion. The whole thing all along has been air locking. The culprit? Yep, the O ringo kids! As is mention a million times here, they leak but they also admit air. I continued to have what seemed to be the same problem because there was still air in the system even after refilling exactly to the comic's instructions. I plumbed a tee up out of copper fittings and put it in line with the highest plumbing in the motor which was a tee'd off hose to the LPG gubbins and used it to bleed off air, closing it before I let the revs drop below 2000. I also took the hose off from the throttle body heater and did the same. No probs at all, now. What kind of a design crew put such a weak link in such an inaccesible place? Then they charge £50k+ for the privelege of taking it back to charged another grand evry five years or so. You can't help but love 'em, though, can you? Can you though? Eh? Can you? regards and thanks to all who take time from their already busy life to help the likes of me and other minnows.