Hi to you all,
I recently returned to owning a landrover spending my savings on a very tidy freelander auto V6i es o3 plate with just 52000 on the clock.
About two weeks ago my pride and joy started to over heat so i took it to my local garage to have this investigated......
To my horror the man with the spanners told me the the water pump was on its way out and it wont be cheap!!!
So just to double check this i called an ex AA mechanic freind of mine to take a look and to add even more misery he informed me there was gas detected in the coolant aswell as the pump being u/s.
Not only that but the engine appeared to have new head gaskets on it.
He also informed me that if the coolant had ever had rad weld added to it that the block is basicly scrap as it blocks the watercourses!!!
What do i do? scrap this engine and start again with a second hand/reconditioned engine or do i take a chance and have the head gaskets changed and a new pump fitted..
Anyone who has been in my shoes and has any advice they could share with me would really help.....
Many thanks iain..
I recently returned to owning a landrover spending my savings on a very tidy freelander auto V6i es o3 plate with just 52000 on the clock.
About two weeks ago my pride and joy started to over heat so i took it to my local garage to have this investigated......
To my horror the man with the spanners told me the the water pump was on its way out and it wont be cheap!!!
So just to double check this i called an ex AA mechanic freind of mine to take a look and to add even more misery he informed me there was gas detected in the coolant aswell as the pump being u/s.
Not only that but the engine appeared to have new head gaskets on it.
He also informed me that if the coolant had ever had rad weld added to it that the block is basicly scrap as it blocks the watercourses!!!
What do i do? scrap this engine and start again with a second hand/reconditioned engine or do i take a chance and have the head gaskets changed and a new pump fitted..
Anyone who has been in my shoes and has any advice they could share with me would really help.....
Many thanks iain..