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diff-breaker:
Bit of perhaps a daft questions but I will ask anyway !
How does anyone stop engine overheating after a land rover show or pay/play of mud in the radiator - other than jetting it out ?
Yes you guessed it - it overheated on way back home this last weekend and head gasket has gone ! :oops:

mattyme:
short of a new radiator... all you can do is jet wash the rad out after playing.

but that doesnt help you get home afterwards!!

with the rad having 3 rows of fins on the cores, the inner layer seem to corrode quicker than the outer layers.

hence the heat is not disapated as efficiently, ergoe, overheating.

i had the same problem for a while, a slight incline on the motorway and i was getting rather warm.

a new radiator has solved the problem, 100%.

hope this helps.

mikiep1986:
 mine done that last weekend .  . but mines new water pump as well as thats shot . . . but need a new rad aswell as its leaking . . . to stop over heating and blocked rad i cant think of anything just jet it down after a event ????

big andy w:
Untill I get home for jet wash, I always run my heaters on full blast to the floor! :)

this usually stops the temp rising enough to worry, it can rise from 1 third to half way on big long hills but soon settles, and this is when my rad looks like a big block of mud!! Lol

mattyme:
wet mud still disapates the heat fairly efficiently,

but as soon as the mud dries out it becomes a brilliant insulator and stops the cooling.

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