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Head gasket gone again......
Disco_Dennis:
Head gasket's gone again on my HS2.8 engined Disco. :cry:
That's the 3rd one in 2 years! :shock:
I bough the car with a blown head gasket originally (the idiot I bought it from drove it 50 miles with no water in the engine! :shocked: ), and then rebuilt the engine myself using wherever possible OE parts.
The original head was skimmed & tested out fine, the first HG I fitted was a Britpart one (multi-layer metal jobbie - Feb 08), so when it went the next time (October 2008) I fitted an Elring (which is OE) and a new head (even though the original wasn't cracked it had already been skimmed twice).
So, what do I do.....
I'm sooooo tempted to ditch the HS and install an Isuzu or Diahatsu 2.8 instead. :undecided:
Don't want to go to a 200 or 300 'cos of the lower power. =;
As you can imagine, it's really starting to Piddle me off..... :evil:
BobtailBogey:
I can highly recommend the Diahatsu 2.8 TD i had one a while back in a RRC with the pump tweaked and was highly impressed with the amount of power it had..
Definatly something wrong somewhere if your blowing that many gaskets......
Range Rover Blues:
Got to agree, I'm having a similar run of bad luck with a 300 TDi, I've just had the head (which was after the first head gasket failed) skimmed, it needed 14 thou :-k
This will be the 3rd atempt at fixing it, though I strongly suspect it ran low on water, the pump on the 300 TDi is very high and I think that's one fo it's problems.
Disco_Dennis:
Thing is, I know why the Britpart HG failed.
Loss of water of a period of time due to leaky pipes coupled with a blocked radiator all conspired together to knacker it. :roll:
I'm taking the head to be skimmed (if it's warped, otherwise it'll just a a damn good polish!) & pressure tested tomorrow - if it checks out OK I'll probably hope for 3rd time lucky. :pale:
Thing is, I like the power and torque this thing produces. I might fix it, run it for a few months, and then do an engine swap..... I dunno.... maybe I should buy an SJ? :-$ :-> :^o
Bobtail:
--- Quote from: Disco_Dennis on January 03, 2010, 18:58:21 ---
Thing is, I know why the Britpart HG failed.
Loss of water of a period of time due to leaky pipes coupled with a blocked radiator all conspired together to knacker it. :roll:
I'm taking the head to be skimmed (if it's warped, otherwise it'll just a a damn good polish!) & pressure tested tomorrow - if it checks out OK I'll probably hope for 3rd time lucky. :pale:
Thing is, I like the power and torque this thing produces. I might fix it, run it for a few months, and then do an engine swap..... I dunno.... maybe I should buy an SJ? :-$ :-> :^o
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Have you checked the block?
It may have a high or low spot on it causing your problems :-k
I'm No expert but just a thought
May be worth checking [-o<
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