I am now using a Tim gauge as I swapped this with the durite one to just try something else, i am only running water in it at the moment. Water is pumping round fine. There isn’t anything else I can change.

Fitted a new radiator and still no difference with the overheating

Well that didn't work, £250 on a new radiator and still no difference.

Hi sorry this is now sold.

Well I have just purchased a new brass and copper radiator so if nothing else I can rule the radiator out of the equation. Got to love spending money on the thing.

I am beginning to wish I had kept the old one now☹️

I ran a hose through the heater matrix yesterday and that was running well, again this is new as I have rebuilt the box during my rebuild.

the radiator is as you say a plastic/alloy one so it may be the problem, I have flushed it through with water and it seems ok. The thermostat can only fit one way, so that is ok. I am honestly thinking you are right it as to be the radiator as there is nothing else I haven’t changed.

Radiator is quite new, less than 1000 miles with it, so I can’t see this as the problem, but....

I am only using water in it at the moment as I have had it too pieces since many times in the past few weeks it would have cost a fortune in antifreeze.

Thrown the towel in with it.

Another day at it and still having the same problem. In have fitted another new thermostat which was again tested in a pan of water, again this is working perfect, opens at 88.6 degrees. Fitted it filled with water and run up to temperature and again it has kept on going up and up, switched...

I have had the engine for a while now, a new head gasket was fitted 0 miles ago during the full rebuild, head has been skimmed and pressure tested. No gasses in the system and no water in the oil or oil in the water.

Are you still looking for an engine, don't know if this would help? https://www.facebook.com/groups/4x4stuff/permalink/2233292990091682/?sale_post_id=2233292990091682 Don't know anything else about it tbh, just saw it and thought of you.

Just pulled the water pump off and it is perfect, all spinning correctly, held in a vice and there is no way the pulley moves on the shaft.

Just spent the last 3 hours at it, flushed the whole system with coolant flush, water now coming out as clear as it goes in, flushed water through every pipe and hose, radiator, expansion bottle heater hoses, everything. Tested the thermostat again and it opens bang on 88 degrees in a pan of...

Right small update. Swapped the gauge for a new one and ran it again, still no drop in temperature and ran to 100 degrees before turning off. Took thermostat out and ran again, still getting up to around 100 degrees before I shut it off. Radiator hot from top to bottom, all hoses hot. I am...

I couldn’t find any when I did my interiors, in the end I used forever black to dye mine. They needed a few coats but it made a great job of them.

I have had the rad out and flushed it before refitting it and it was all clear then. i have also had the thermostat out and run water through the radiator until it comes out of the thermostat housing and that is clear as well.

No it has one in and it is free to move.