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Sensor ordered so fingers crossed:-)

Wow ! Unbelievable !!!

Totally agree matey :-) But one must do a minimum of reserch first before bother the likes of ;-) Just hope that's all it is !

I have googled this problem and the sensor STC 2299 beyond believe and can't believe after all this vehicle has been through and had done to it could all be down to a sensor but at £7.99 has got to be worth a punt ! Anybody else had this same problem ? Thank you all for your help ;-)

Oil level in the gearbox ? Yes ! And the gearbox oil was changed along with the filter, and then the box was changed for another known runner with a 100k Km's to no availe. We are in between Poitiers & Niort !

Cheers mate ! I had heard about this ! Apparently it has been checked but not changed ! Got to be worth changing if they don't cost the earth ! can anybody add to this or got a part n° ?

Hi A mate of mine out here in France has had a lovely 2001 year Range Rover P38 2.5 DSA Auto for over 5 trouble free years and the Auto box has just started playing up and wont change gear under 4000rpm ! He has changed the ECU under the seat, checked all sensors,even changed the Auto box for a...

Could some kind soul please tell me if it's possible to just get the bottom hub ball joint gaitors on a TD5 and where from.They are both split on mine but no play in ball joints (yet) and don't want to go through the hell of changing the ball joints ! Cheers !

Unbelievable ! Bloody nightmare, Aligned gasket/Head with old head bolts with the head chopped off. Tighned head as per set procedure and it's the bloody same as before !!!! Spitting it's coolant out of the expansion tank !! Gutted !

The head bolts are a right pain in the botty ! There are 2 under the bulkhead that you can't get at . Then you have to run it and do them again but you can't get to the bloody things with the rocker covers, injectors etc ..... Horrible engine ! The worst that I have ever worked on ! Never had...

I agree got to be at least part of the problem ! What's doing my head in is which gasket to use ?? Fibre or MLS ? And what thickness as the pistons don't stick out above the block but are under the liner lip ! I'm at that stage where I can't see "right from wrong" and just want to get a branch...

Just got the heads back from pressure testing all good ! no cracks, leaks or anything ?

Thanks for that :)

Thanks for the feedback :) Still waiting to get heads back ! The first time I used the same bolts, started up ran for 20mins, cool down, torque bolts again and it lasted a week, second time used NEW bolts and first start was blowing out of the expansion tank !! Although obviously I cleaned...

The liners have a lip that protrudes 1.32 mm above the block , the piston a tdc is 0.96mm under this lip ! Gaskets are : 1 notch = 1.62mm 2 notch = 1.52mm 0 notch = 1.42mm I have been fixing cars & bikes for over 35 years and this has seriously blown my stack !!!!

A few pics !

Good question ! Well there were none when I took it in bit's so it went back together without if there should have been ?? I used the inlet manifold to line the heads up before tightening !

Thanks for your replies ! Yes the VM lump was used in loads of vehicles (jeep, crysler voyager etc) besides boats ! Heads are away to be pressure checked ! Thing is it was'nt doing this before I changed the head gasket (should have left the bloody thing alone :eek: ) The second time it cost me...

I agree but I've had my 200 TDI flirting many a time with the RED ZONE in Morocco in the height of summer due to a F-Off winch bumper restricting air through the radiator and got away with it :)

There is no VM engine bit so will have to post here ! Have been running a 1988 2.4 VM Range Rover for about 2 years now with water running down the outside of the block but otherwise fine with no other head gasket problems. So I decided to change my head gasket which was a 1 notch (4 seperate...