Thread: Truck no go - did a silly thing

After a couple of charging cycles on a smart charger I have all batteries have recovered and producing the goods.

The 101 has been off the road replacing the water pump, the coolant hoses, including the little thermostat bypass hose that is hidden away in the valley behind the water pump. This is what had been leaking an causing my coolant loss. I also took the opportunity to install a TM2 combo the monitor engine metal temp and any water loss.

This week I finallly got everything back together and went for a long test drive yesterday. All seemed to go well - the TM2 stayed on 70 degrees while the water temp gauge was on 82. The sensor for the TM2 is at the front of the engine so gets additional cooling from the fan - I will move the sensor to a bolt in the engine valley so that temps better reflect what is going on.

When I got back home unfortunately coolant was leaking from the bottom of the radiator - bummer - I have a spare new radiator and considered putting it in but thought the old one was OK - so today I put in the new one - 20 minutes to get out - 4 hours to get back in - mainly issues getting mounting holes lined up.

Reconnected everything all up and filled with coolant - guess what - coolant leak - but this time was from the lower hose up near the water pump - bugger the hose is against the 24v alternator drive belts which have abraded through the hose (guess why the previous hose was braided). It looks like when hot, coolant was squirting over to the radiator making it look as it was leaking. Oh well at least I know the radiator is good and the old one was getting on.

Here is the hose in place from underneath


The hose with the bit missing



I doubt I will find a braided hose tomorrow so I will just get something from Super Crap and make it just a bit longer so it clears the alternator drive belt.

Garry

It will be good to see that coolant/overheating problem fixed once and for all. I felt quite guilty that time I got you to drive over to Toads with a carby and then found you on the side of the road on the way home.

All fixed all going well - but I wished the people who design land rovers should have to work on them.

Managed to get the bottom radiator hose OK but the clamp up on the water pump end was impossible to get up there and do up. So to clear the way the lidler pulley for the alternator had to come off to make room to hold the clamp in place while it was done up.

Any way - now new water pumo, hoses, and radiator so hopefully the coolant system will be good for a while now.

The test will be some 4wding near home tomorrow with the local club.

Garry

Truck ran great - as usual a bit hot inside - temp was 30 degrees with the hood rolled up and outside temp 20.

On very long steep downhill runs the TM2 Combo Low Water alarm comes on so maybe there is an air pocket still in there. Even forded an moderate sized creek without it stopping.

Main problem was that after driving the RRS around I forget to use the clutch pedal from time to time (seniors moment?) and I miss the dual climate control - and oh and the power steering - oh and the soft suspension - oh and the comfy seats.

At least the blackberry bushes do not worry the 101 - I definitely do not want the RRS near the blackberrys.

So the 101 is back on the road and running well.

Garry