Hello Andy, thanks for your comment. The cars gauge seems to stay horizontal no matter how hot the engine is.. What I should have included was that being underimpressed by the standard temp gauge and interested in following how the engine heats up I plug in one of these code readers using the...

Hello kermit_rr, thanks for your replies. I haven't been able to follow your suggestion but when hot the hoses were not rock hard, I was able to squeeze them when I tried to move any air in the system. When I squeezed the hose below the thermostat ,which is new, it was cold even after the...

Hello htr, thanks for your reply. Before bleeding the system again I drained and flushed the system in several directions. I began bleeding the system by starting with the lower screw and keeping it open while filling, when coolant ran out I closed it. I did the same for the upper screw. I then...

I last wrote in on Aug 11th about my Freelander 1, 2003. 1.8 that was misfiring when hot. Since then I got bitten by as tick and had long drawn out Lymes Disease and been quiet. However I had the energy to solve the misfiring problem during that time. I got a warning code that the throttle...

Hello folks. Have written before about this and received some good suggestions but none seemed to help. To recap. I have a Sept. 2003 Freelander 1.8. This misfiring, cutting out when hot started after I had to replace all the hoses and thermostat after a hose burst. It happens when I keep an...

Hello Andy, many thanks for the info about the Rave manual. I had seen it mentioned but didn`t think it was for just anybody to download which I will now do and see what it says about that sensor and other problems. My FL is a Sept 2003 1.8 5 door model. I don`t know what happened around 2001...

Changed the oil in my Freelander 1.8 yesterday. It had become the colour of black coffee and smelt as bitter. wonder how long it takes to get like that. If oil wasn`t so expensive here in Norway I would be tempted to change the oil again after a week to flush out any undesirables. The day...

Thanks for your reply and suggestion about the fuel filter. The first test result was for bank 1 sensor 1 or vice versa. While the test was running the moving line was really jagged and irregular. Have had a new fault reading for the cam. Pos. Sensor. Am tempted to replace that as it has shown...

Thanks for your reply. It is a 1.8 K4. Would not be surprised if the filter had never been changed, the timing belt I changed last year had done over 150000km. Am almost tempted to put the old temp sensor back in and see what happens as the car ran ok but with a squeeky IACV and a slightly...

Thanks for your response. I spoke to the previous owner before I saw your response and he suggested clearing the codes and go for a drive as he thought they could be from 2018 and that was why the coils and leads were replaced. I went for a long drive and there were no fault codes stored in the...

About 4 weeks ago I wrote in and asked about the engine hesitating repeatedly when I was trying to keep at an even speed when it was hot. A crack in the IACV that opened up when hot was suggested but I have just fitted a new one and made several trips with the same result that the engine cuts...

Agree that the idea is good because as soon as the ig. sw. is turned it will check and tell the driver something is wrong. There is no warning light mentioned in the handbook of this model so I will probably have to rig up my own system. Not sure that the engine was not hot enough though, could...

Thanks to you and Ali for all your advice. Before I went to pick up my wife today I made sure there was enough slack in the cable but the downhill light was there from the start and I drove far enough to make sure the engine was at running temp. However, after a restart it wasn`t there all the...

Thanks. There is play or slackness of about 12 mm. I am only adjusting or replacing one thing at a time so that I know what worked so I will be going for a drive tomorrow to test this step. Do you know if an auxillary temp gauge can be fitted? I don`t trust the original.

I did adjust it as I am used to a less slack cable but it has been reset to a slackness of about 12 mm.

Good idea about the expansion. Next time it is hot I will spray with thin oil that might go in any cracks, remove it, wipe clean and powder it with corn starch or something similar to draw out the oil from any cracks. When I first bought this Freelander I went around it tightening, cleaning...

Many thanks for your suggestion. The top left bolt hole was broken off by a rusting bolt which expanded and cracked the plastic. I will check there again for a possible hairline crack that penetrates the valve body.. The first time I removed the valve I found the o ring was split, that was...

Five weeks and an overflowing swearbox later I finally removed that stubborn stud. Didn`t take me five weeks to do that job only 2 days but from start to finish including waiting for parts for that and two other jobs. Before I started on the bolt a hose burst, lost lots of water but the temp...

In my intro I wrote about putting mastic on the door where the bendy part of the seal is and mastic on the rubber in the botton right hand corner after mending it then using silicone grease as a release agent. The mastic takes the form of whatever is pressed into it and fills any gaps. Here we...

Sorry I thought you meant seals on the back axle. The door seals, did they leak from new or does it come after a while? Because in time they could become deformed, hard or perhaps the door does not close as tightly because of wear on the catches. Could be a combination of those. If you read my...