Thread: RRC exploding viscofan trick

Originally Posted by AK83

Tdi radiators are only 3/4 the width of the V8 rads.



I was at pick-a-part this morning lookign for stuff for my sisters RAV4, noticed a half decent nic Disco(v8) .. rad looked quite good, clean, not so old. Didn't bother to look inside, but the outside looked well kept.
Their radiator prices are quite reasonable .. $63. So may be worth a looksie.
In fact the entire motor looked in pretty decent condition, very clean for a RV8(as in not covered with years of oil buildup) .. so I'm guesstimating it had been rebuilt at some point then crashed into.

If 'ya want me to go check it out better, let me know(not far away).

Thanks! Don't put yourself out for now. I'm starting to believe any reasonable looking radiator fitted to a Rangie is a chinese throw-away ..... I've just compared all the 3 radiators in the shed. The tanks on the land rover labelled radiator are actually 4 core tanks .... with a 3 core radiator in them (so the tanks are much bigger giving you extra coolant capacity ... and probably much more space for the oil coolers).

For now I will just solder up the tired land rover radiator and refit ( ti did cool the car well enough to tow the caravan to QLD and back last year).. I think sensible will be to get a new local radiator made at some point.

I didn't even consider a radiator being an issue given I have 3 of the damn things here!

seeya
Shane L.

Originally Posted by Mercguy

I hope that I will never have to concern myself with RRC cooling issues in the future, but I have recently given some further thought to an LT230 pto hydraulic oil pump mod which I saw on pirate 4x4 some years ago.. seems like overkill, but I have time to consider whether it's actually worth bothering with.

Tell us more?

Are these radiators australian made I wonder ?



https://radiatordirect.com.au/index....%201&vehicleid[]=6469

Originally Posted by gavinwibrow

Tell us more?

Sorry Gav, was distracted with non-vehicle related things for the last couple of weeks.

The thread was one of those ridiculous pirate ones I think it was called something like I blew up my LT230 at whatever - or something like that. Our resident aulro LT experts have provided some useful contributions to that thread, (Bush65 / AncientMariner credit) and I was musing through it... like most 'murican fora there's a fair degree of BS, so have to wade through that to get to the little nuggets of truth and enlightenment.

Anyway, there were some freakish oiling strategies going on with it, and they ended up not working perfectly. Not sure from memory what it was that caused it I think it was oil starvation on either the output shaft or planetary gears - whatever it was I will have to re-read it, but the guy used a hydraulic pump on the PTO as an oil circulation pump. There was definitely room to adapt the theory and execute it slightly differently. There is some sound ideology but I do recall that the implementation was a little different to how I envisaged it.

Bear in mind though, the guy who did it was racing a buggy or something and the lt230 was behind a chev I think. so all in all, probably a little 'stressed' in that application.