Thread: Damn, I've had it too easy of late....

Sigh.....

Australia Post strike again.

So much for Express Post being overnight.......






"What do you call someone that has a monumental coolant leak on a Tdi and keeps driving it ?"








"Stupid ?"

"No, Rick !"

Originally Posted by rick130

Sigh.....

Australia Post strike again.

So much for Express Post being overnight.......






"What do you call someone that has a monumental coolant leak on a Tdi and keeps driving it ?"








"Stupid ?"

"No, Rick !"

I'm sure you know what you're in for, so if it ends up really dead Isuzu right!

Steve

Obviously there is more than one Land Rover god, or he/she/it has many minions.

I thought with Irish Mike_ie being around the malevolence was mainly directed at him and most would get clear run for a while

Originally Posted by strangy

Obviously there is more than one Land Rover god, or he/she/it has many minions.

I thought with Irish Mike_ie being around the malevolence was mainly directed at him and most would get clear run for a while

I'm no where in Mike's league for Murphy's intervention just yet

Originally Posted by rick130

"What do you call someone that has a monumental coolant leak on a Tdi and keeps driving?:

If I heard someone do that, I would call them a tow truck.

Playing with fire................... err water (or lack of it) here Rick, but you already know that.
'Ignorance is bliss', they say but if you stuff the head it'll be worse 'cos you knew what you were doing (or not doing) in the first place.

I did a plastic welding job on my old black plastic tank with a 40 watt soldering iron and a bunch of cable tie off cuts. Worked OK, that is held pressure, for a couple of weeks before leaking again, then loosened cap whilst waiting for a replacement tank. But could have been a bit more agressive with the cable ties/soldering iron instead. What I did was weld up the split on the inside of the tank and tension a stainless steel Panduit 'cable tie' around the guts of the tank so it couldnt flex.

Something like this



Look at the bright side.

You could have spent a whole day and demolished 18 of those @#!$%^&** stupid plastic panel clips on the rear door of a D1 to remove the wiper motor which you then disassembled and reconditioned to find that it is NORMAL for the rear wiper motor motor NOT to work when the drivers door is open (took 8 hours to make that connection), sigh .................... . But OK to wipe with the rear door open and to squirt washers into back with door open.

Who's a silly duffer then ?

Good luck.

Deano

I feel your pain Rick.....

as per my previous thread, it is only two years ago since I replaced my alternator and water pump.....now I am doing it again! I have gone beyond "bloody landrover". I just want reliability!

Sigh.....

Originally Posted by 86mud

I feel your pain Rick.....

as per my previous thread, it is only two years ago since I replaced my alternator and water pump.....now I am doing it again! I have gone beyond "bloody landrover". I just want reliability!

Sigh.....

I feel your pain Andrew.

Just replaced the expansion tank, only just walked in to wash up, grab some lunch, finish a quote and deliver it, but as I said before I can't complain too loudly, the Tdi has been ok, I've been very lucky compared to some.

Alternator finally died a few months ago, as in it was only part charging. I didn't stuff around with a new reg and brushes, I just ordered a Disco 100amp one instead and installed it.

W/pump was changed around 70,000km or so ago and has been fine (touch wood) and I replaced the vac pump finally a few months back too, just too much oil everywhere. It had been bodged once already a very long time ago.

The big ends going ta ta's was a biggy but surprisingly not a show stopper, the rest of the engine survived, and I've had the heater burst but again I was lucky and didn't stuff the head.



Our GU Patrol has over 400,000km now and is virtually untouched, it just keeps trundling along, so, I'm going to start and acquire bits for a 4BD1T transplant, just not sure which way to go with the gearbox yet.