Hello All
Just had a hectic week. We decided to be clever and MOT the Range Rover (P38 2.5 Diesel 98 model) early this year as it was due at the beginning of December, needless to say it always needed money spent on it and that month is already an expensive one.
Anyhow it failed on the bushes on the front axle bushes. Driving home however the radiator burst so explosively it tore a hole in the soundproofing under the bonnet. It had been running perfectly before. Luckily it happened just as I got home.
I suspect the head gasket has gone, maybe even the head is cracked. Any how the day got really expensive as it was our only car so I hired a van (ouch). Next I went to see my local Landrover expert he say he'd got an old TD3 with a year's ticket I could have - still reeling from the shock of how much it was costing me to hire a van I snatched his hand off and bought it. Van goes back when I pick the TD3 up. You could say I did things in the wrong order but without the van I'd never have got to see the chap.
Now we have wheels again I thinking about giving the P38 a birthday. The rest of the car is sound, we've had new air bags and compressor this year and a whole list of other things, its a good solid car (they don't build 'em like that anymore - thank the gods). The bushes aren't much of an issue, I could do those at work as we have a big hydraulic press. The engine ran very well, quite and only burnt a cup full of oil between services and having looked around parts, they are very cheap as no one wants them (a brand new dunlop compressor was only £100), so even if the head is cracked I'm fairly sure I could find another one.
The thing that struck me however (apart from how much the shiney white van on the drive had just cost) was that the twin electric fans didn't cut in even though the red overheat light was on and the needle north of very hot! If I do go ahead with the birthday I would want to address this so the fans cut in at a much lower temperature. Any other mods to the cooling I can make?
Just had a hectic week. We decided to be clever and MOT the Range Rover (P38 2.5 Diesel 98 model) early this year as it was due at the beginning of December, needless to say it always needed money spent on it and that month is already an expensive one.
Anyhow it failed on the bushes on the front axle bushes. Driving home however the radiator burst so explosively it tore a hole in the soundproofing under the bonnet. It had been running perfectly before. Luckily it happened just as I got home.
I suspect the head gasket has gone, maybe even the head is cracked. Any how the day got really expensive as it was our only car so I hired a van (ouch). Next I went to see my local Landrover expert he say he'd got an old TD3 with a year's ticket I could have - still reeling from the shock of how much it was costing me to hire a van I snatched his hand off and bought it. Van goes back when I pick the TD3 up. You could say I did things in the wrong order but without the van I'd never have got to see the chap.
Now we have wheels again I thinking about giving the P38 a birthday. The rest of the car is sound, we've had new air bags and compressor this year and a whole list of other things, its a good solid car (they don't build 'em like that anymore - thank the gods). The bushes aren't much of an issue, I could do those at work as we have a big hydraulic press. The engine ran very well, quite and only burnt a cup full of oil between services and having looked around parts, they are very cheap as no one wants them (a brand new dunlop compressor was only £100), so even if the head is cracked I'm fairly sure I could find another one.
The thing that struck me however (apart from how much the shiney white van on the drive had just cost) was that the twin electric fans didn't cut in even though the red overheat light was on and the needle north of very hot! If I do go ahead with the birthday I would want to address this so the fans cut in at a much lower temperature. Any other mods to the cooling I can make?
