Hi
I have been having a few issues with my discovery and think I am now left with it being the Gasket.
As I drove away from a friends house he noticed I left a large patch of oil on the pavement. Hadnt happened at home, would have noticed just laid a new drive. Upon looking the header tank was full of thick black oil, so checked around and oil cooler was the culprit. I changed the oil cooler and flushed the system through with biological washing powder as advised, then several times with clean water.
Did a 60 journey and everything was fine no running problems at all. The next day started the return 60 mile journey and not even 10 mile in to it she overheated, went up exrememly quickly to point that as i finally managed to pull over cut out. There was no water left in the system so waited for engine to cool, filled up with water and crawled home at 50mph on the motorway which she handled fine until a mile from home and we hit traffic. After sitting in it for a while lost all power and had to wait to cool and re fill again. Once home i changed the thermostat in case that was clogged have again flushed eveything through, but cant stop the over heating, and there seems an incredible amount of pressure in the system and the water doesnt seem to be getting to the radiator as its not getting hot nor are the pipes off the thermostat.
Head gasket seems to be the option now, but could someone please offer any advice. I have tried to complete all the work on the car myself, trying to learn as i go, this foroum has been incredibly useful, so turning to you for help now.
Cheers
I have been having a few issues with my discovery and think I am now left with it being the Gasket.
As I drove away from a friends house he noticed I left a large patch of oil on the pavement. Hadnt happened at home, would have noticed just laid a new drive. Upon looking the header tank was full of thick black oil, so checked around and oil cooler was the culprit. I changed the oil cooler and flushed the system through with biological washing powder as advised, then several times with clean water.
Did a 60 journey and everything was fine no running problems at all. The next day started the return 60 mile journey and not even 10 mile in to it she overheated, went up exrememly quickly to point that as i finally managed to pull over cut out. There was no water left in the system so waited for engine to cool, filled up with water and crawled home at 50mph on the motorway which she handled fine until a mile from home and we hit traffic. After sitting in it for a while lost all power and had to wait to cool and re fill again. Once home i changed the thermostat in case that was clogged have again flushed eveything through, but cant stop the over heating, and there seems an incredible amount of pressure in the system and the water doesnt seem to be getting to the radiator as its not getting hot nor are the pipes off the thermostat.
Head gasket seems to be the option now, but could someone please offer any advice. I have tried to complete all the work on the car myself, trying to learn as i go, this foroum has been incredibly useful, so turning to you for help now.
Cheers