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It's my birthday and I can cry if I want too.

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muddyjames:
And believe me I really want too.

Had a great weekend with my mates in Chesterfield working on the canal. Driving home today in the disco I went up a steep hill on the M1, over took a lorry, got to the top, temp guage went up to red, through the red mark and beyond by the time I could safely kill the engine. Water everywhere. It blew the cap off the radiator resevior.

I now have veg oil in the rad tank some how and the engine possibly siezed or a warped head and most probably head gasket gone. So I spent my birthday sat on the bank of the M1 in the rain for 2 hours waiting for a rac man for the 1st hour to tell me I needed a low loader, (I told him that!) then another hour for a lorry. Saved on veg oil coming home I guess.

So now I have a disco that maybe broken for spare parts. What will be thrown at me next?

Jake:
Happy Birthday James
Get yourself on ebay, there's plenty of 300 heads on there if you need one
Failing that, give the best 4x4 company in the South West a call
we They might have one in the take off pile  ;)

kizz81:
happy birthday for yesterday, hope you get it sorted

cheers kieran

4 landies:
 Without trying to ypset anybody , Dont bank on the problem being just the head.

 Same thing happened to me and needed a complete head, new pistons and rings, a rebore, crank re-grinding and new rad amongst a few other bits and pieces.

 Total bill ended up at £2500, expensive I know but the landie was only 8 years old so was to good to break.

muddyjames:
mate of mine is guessing fuel pump. he said why would fuel be in the rad bottle from a head gasket, that would be oil i the water. He has a point.

I will look into prices of repair, breaking up but it is in good nic T box, auto box and chassis and price of another engine second hand.

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