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The 300 is a git to bleed, and some leaks only show when up to pressure, this includes the heater matrix and it's plumbing, dust with talc and follow the water tracks that will have evaporated otherwise ...
Overheating 300TDI
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The 300 is a git to bleed, and some leaks only show when up to pressure, this includes the heater matrix and it's plumbing, dust with talc and follow the water tracks that will have evaporated otherwise ...
The fuel filter being mounted off the bulkhead indicates a engine swap.
To the OP -
If you're going to start swapping bits, you need a sender with the black band, as you can't get defender style gauges to match the disco green band sender. Then a defender gauge, as people generally just leave the original gauge in place and then it reads wrong with the black band sender.... But you can't use the original sender in the 300 as the thread is different.
But this is all by the by, it has probably been like that for ages with (possibly) the wrong setup and this seems a new issue (i think the old gauge with the new sender reads about a third too hot too, which is probably better than reading too cold!)
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have you refitted your head? what Was the outcome? im having similar issues
Dear All,
Yes the head is refitted and no more overheating. The guys have been towing 3.5t for a full day without problem. But as it is a Landy the trip finished on the tow truck. I discovered that the alternator cable had burned. Now replaced and it looks fine.
Now I am doing some other bits of maintenance for the coming Viking rally in Norway.
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That’s always the way! I’m waiting on a sniff test kit then depending on outcome of that a 2nd water pump in 6months or head off
