Guess what? She no longer overheats! Had to give up the battle with the viscous fan for another day, but changed the radiator, filled it up slowly, and so far everything's fine. Even getting hot air out the blowers now. Ordered a new thermostat to replace the missing one, so that'll...

Righto... khryztal has very kindly sent me out a radiator and water pump, so i got on with removing the old bits this morning...and I'm hoping the new bits turn up this afternoon. Started off trying to remove the viscous fan...but to no avail. As I'm facing the engine bay from the front...

"if" I'm keeping it? I'm bloody stuck with it now! :-) I'm starting to think the gaskets may well be gone, as I've found a bodged home made pressure relief valve on one of the hoses - who'd go to the bother of removing the stat and fitting a relief valve if it was something simple like the...

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Is the thermostat housing attached to the front of the block, connected to the top radiator hose, held on by two bolts, and has a sensor connected to it? If so...someone's removed the thermostat as there was nothing inside.

Took it for a run, temp was ok until I put my foot down - instantly the gauge started heading for the red. Made it home and it poured coolant out the expansion tank. Radiator hot at the top, cold at the bottom. Carrying out a radiator flush just now (very rock 'n' roll for a Saturday night -...

Took it for a run, temp was ok until I put my foot down - instantly the gauge started heading for the red. Made it home and it poured coolant out the expansion tank. Radiator hot at the top, cold at the bottom. Carrying out a radiator flush just now (very rock 'n' roll for a Saturday night -...

Thanks for this - I'll do this until I can get hold of a replacement. Tried chemical metal as a bodge...didn't work ;-).

No other apparent issues. The radiators blow lukewarm, so if the radiator was very blocked would you expect this to be the case?

Heaters are still cold.

No, The top hose has always heated up fine.

Ha! And here was me thinking you were like this all the time! Seriously though...as I stand here in the dark, covered in coolant, transmission fluid an other assorted grime, I'm very thankful. Now...having topped everything up and letting it reach operating temp with all caps off, I've...

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Lucky escape for you then ;-)! I knew there'd be teething problems, so I'm not too fussed about what's happening. I certainly don't feel hard done by as I knew there may be a cooling system issue when I bought it...just hoped it wasn't serious.

Yes, that's the one. Do you know anything about it?

Thanks, I'm goin to flush the system tonight using radiator flush etc. Where is the heater line filler located?

Is there an easy way of checking if the rad is hot all over, as i presume its the air-con rad sitting in front of the rad, and the rear is covered too? I'll take it for a run now - and see, although so far although the top hose gets hard, it doesn't seem to get any bigger. Thanks mate...

Ok, I've been out this morning for a play around to see if I can get to the bottom of the overheating... I first went down the air lock route, letting the car idle with the top radiator plug off and the expansion tank cap off. The car would burp air and coolant from time to time, but did not...

No, I definitely think the colour is a contributory factor ;-) I'm going to spend the day on it today to see if I can get to the bottom of it. I was going to start by removing the radiator etc to find out where the red fluid leak's coming from, and I'll test the thermostat too.

Hi folks, I've just purchased a 1993 RR Classic Vogue LSE 4.2 Auto in white, but I'm having some overheating issues. This is the first Range Rover I've owned, so I'm looking for some advice as to where I should start. After half an hour or so of running at idle, or 5 miles of actual...