Ive had enough!

[Yoshi]

Well i have now purchased a rad off ebay, £75 delivered, couldnt afford a new one unfortunately.

Hopefully that will arrive before the weekend and then i can get it fitted and then find out if i am going to become very knowledgeable in the replacement of head gaskets lol

[Yoshi]

Right, rad has arrived, operation rad replacement shall commence tomorrow, was gonna go for the de-ionised water approach but alas funds dont allow!

So wish me luck, and i will post the results tomorrow :D dont know if i am gonna know if its fixed or not really lmao

[Range Rover Blues]

Try using boiled water or water from your hot tap then.

[Yoshi]

using hot water for filling the rad and the other tank thingy?  the other thing is i dont know how i will know if its fixed the problem or not lol

[Range Rover Blues]

Sorry, if you use water from tyhe hot tap then a lot of the **** will have settled from it and in hard water areas the limescale can be lower than tap water too.

As for if it's fixed it, suck it and see I'm afraid.  Keep 5L of water in the boot for a few weeks in case it gets too hot.

[Yoshi]

Fair comment lol, will do that tomorrow, can run the hot water through the hose to the rad, and can put 5ltr of de-ionised water in the boot just in case!

[Range Rover Blues]

You can make your own de-ionised water but it's probably cheaper to buy it.

Unless you know anyone who collects rainwater.

[Yoshi]

unfortunately i dont! lol, so i should fill the rad til its full then fill the black thingy next to it as well where we normally put water in as well? is that about right?

[Range Rover Blues]

Had a quick look at the book of words.

Fill the cooling system with a fast stream of water into the brass plug on top of the engine, on the heater pipes, to avoid air locks.

You can also fill the rad up via the plastic cap but TBH the rad is self-bleeding.  The reservoir needs topping up too (black plastic bottle).

Don't worry if it uses loads the first time you get it how, it might still have air bubbles in it from filling.

[Yoshi]

Right she is running again now, but alas she wont run on LPG, i dont know why, gonna read the other posts on the other thread, but the rad is in and not leaking, no overheating on the small journey i did bringing it home, just gonna be expensive running it on petrol til the lpg is fixed!

[Yoshi]

Forgot to add, the top hose coming out of the top right (as you look at it from the front of the engine) doesnt seem to have much going into it?  The disc shaped thing for the lpg is frosted over as well.

[Yoshi]

Right lpg seems fine now, so now for my assessment of what happened.

basically a lack of water to the vapouriser or wherever it goes on the lpg system caused the car to stop on that thursday night.  2 options lead me to how it happened.

1. not enough fluid somehow caused the rad to blow which stopped the flow of water which then caused the lpg problem.

2. the rad blew, thus leaking the water and stopping the circulation which caused the lpg to fail.

the lpg works fine now, put it down to not having circulating before where i had just redone the cooling system with hot water, but have topped it up now.