After only a short time of fantastic ownership my 2002 4.6 became problematic. It would randomly chuck all the water out of the header tank mainly after a run. Now i spoke to a few "experts" of my woes all replied it's your block mate the liners have slipped! Having spent many an hour pouring over the info on here i all ready suspected so. A brand new short engine was purchased i rebuilt the heads pulled the old motor and refitted the new one all in all i recon i spent 60-70 hours doing the job myself. The new motor fired up perfectly and sounded beautiful made sure all the air was out of the cooling system and took the car for a drive nice 50 miles Oh joy i thought the car is fixed!!!!!
Wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
100m from home air con goes off? and smell LPG then steam pull on drive switch off motor pop bonnet a F**kin great volcano from the header tank. at this point all lengths of rope where removed from reach. thinking maybe a airlock i refill the system run with no rad cap all seems great! refit cap start motor leave to idle switch to gas F*** me another volcano and smell LPG!. Next i remove the coolant pipes from the vaporizer and run the car on petrol amazingly no volcano! driven on petrol for another 30 miles no problem !
Anybody want a 4.6 short engine (right price of course ) LOL
did i spend £2500 for the price of a LPG part?
replacing the vaporizer on Monday apparently not an uncommon problem shame the experts didn't know this even tho i mentioned the LPG. Also just because these cars have common problems does not always mean your fault is one of them i think my lesson has been well and truly learnt!
Wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
100m from home air con goes off? and smell LPG then steam pull on drive switch off motor pop bonnet a F**kin great volcano from the header tank. at this point all lengths of rope where removed from reach. thinking maybe a airlock i refill the system run with no rad cap all seems great! refit cap start motor leave to idle switch to gas F*** me another volcano and smell LPG!. Next i remove the coolant pipes from the vaporizer and run the car on petrol amazingly no volcano! driven on petrol for another 30 miles no problem !
Anybody want a 4.6 short engine (right price of course ) LOL
did i spend £2500 for the price of a LPG part?
replacing the vaporizer on Monday apparently not an uncommon problem shame the experts didn't know this even tho i mentioned the LPG. Also just because these cars have common problems does not always mean your fault is one of them i think my lesson has been well and truly learnt!