Overheating saga the final chapter??????

[loyalduke]

Well this has got to be the sting in the tale the twist in a long and costly exercise to find an overheating problem.....a lesson for everyone so something to check before you go too far :oops:    :roll:

Started with a head gasket, a new radiator, then a new water pump, a borrowed viscous unit...........and finally listening to all the advice and a considerable amount from the local Land Rover specialist the cylinder head was done :shock:  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:

IT STILL OVERHEATS :?  :?  :?

So think again what could it be.....a lady at the garage whilst we were running it commented about the hot air blowing on her legs.....thats unusual she said. :idea:  :idea:  :idea:  :idea:  :idea:  :idea:  :idea:


The blades on the fan were blowing out over rather than sucking in so the faster I went the hotter it got air figting air. Obviously the last owner replaced a faulty unit with a secondhand one but did not check the part number on the blades. They are the wrong ones and face the wrong way(probably off a V8). Even the guy at LR parts couln't believe it.

So ordered new blades and we fit them before we set off for Billing on Friday so fingers crossed that this is the end of the saga and a esson learnt :roll:  At least I have lots of nice new parts    :lol:

[bilge rat]

glad you finally got it sorted ,annoying that but a good outcome alan......

[Paul.K/LuckyTrucker]

Wow, whodathoughtit :?

[Skibum346]

Just when you've thought you've heard everything!     :lol:

Wonder if previous owner sold it on cuz it was overheating...?   :lol:

Skibum

[clbarclay]

Wonder if previous owner sold it on cuz it was overheating...?   :lol:

Skibum

Its not unheard of, I bought my RRC v8 of ebay for peanuts because the previous owner though it needed serious money spending on the EFI to get it too run. 8 new spark plugs later :lol:

[Skibum346]

Its not unheard of, I bought my RRC v8 of ebay for peanuts because the previous owner though it needed serious money spending on the EFI to get it too run. 8 new spark plugs later :lol:

As they say back home in the second city of the empire....    Yaweedancer!   :lol:

Skibum

[mark.yellow.series.3]

:(biggrin):

[Range Rover Blues]

That actually takes some doing, as the 'typical' fan has a LH thread and runs in the same direction as the engine, the one on my LSE with the serpentine belt runs of the back of the belt and so it counter-rotates.  This should have a RH thread otherwise it would come unfastened (unless anyone knows differently).  So how could someone have done that?

Closer to home, how many of us have looked an John's car and not spotted that one :roll:

[muddyjames]

I have just been reading some of your other posts about this as I am having over heating problems up hills towing my caravan when the auto box drops into 3rd and the revs go to 3k.

Whilst reading the other threads I read this

Don't believe its the a-bar and wipacs as that would cause problems at low speed but the problems start when I am accelerating or trying to go uphill! Also the viscous fan seems to create a fair old gust through the rad at idle.

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I do believe that you diagnosed the problem and didnt think anything of it. the bit in bold is the bit I am on about.