Thread: Radiator

hi if you are looking for cheep i think you can get a second hand one for about 100 bucks, there is a guy in victoria he traids on ebay as user name "sexgodsteve69" he parts out land rovers, however if your looking for a quality radiator, you could go with an aussiedessert cooler i had a custom aloy one welded up from them it went hard. with twin thermo fans , the conversion takes the transmition cooling out of the radiator because if it bursts it will get water in your transmition and water in your engine oil. so it re routs that into seperet coolers as well. however a reco installed for 600 is cheep. it is a bussy radiator. i think they are over a grand from lr. the 3.9L one is huge and coper core.

jeff.

good luck .

oops, forgot to mention if you call rover craft in furntree gully they can order them in and have always had exalent after markent prices. and they stock most stuff too.

a set of 2 front disk brakes were only 90 bucks deliverd and cost 300 local.

Originally Posted by discoveryseries1

oops, forgot to mention if you call rover craft in furntree gully they can order them in and have always had exalent after markent prices. and they stock most stuff too.

a set of 2 front disk brakes were only 90 bucks deliverd and cost 300 local.

I rang them once and asked for a price on a very common Land Rover part , even gave them the Part number, and the guy at the other end of the phone sounded pretty dumb and suprised.
So I bought elsewhere.

Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!

I rang them once and asked for a price on a very common Land Rover part , even gave them the Part number, and the guy at the other end of the phone sounded pretty dumb and suprised.
So I bought elsewhere.

iv found riniging on saturday theres somwhat a bright spark working in there knows some stuff been pritty good for me so far

as for sexgodsteve69 he pritty good as well i only use steve for part to just get me out of trouble for now unless the parts turn out top stuff then i go by the term if it aint brok dont fix it
0412075002 is steves number

as a complet last resort ritters is ok but will cut off your ams and legs to pay for it all
talk to rads guys i know a 4core is 600 bucks and standard 3core 400 odd

just see if it worth rodding it up and cleaning it out

When my D1 started to overheat, I bought a brand new radiator. As I was going to be doing a lot of towing, it was the peice of mind knowing that I had the right part for the job. If LR thought a smaller radiator would do, they would have fitted one. Everytime my D1 has had a problem, it has been with a non LR part or someone elses mod, or workmanship. Often faults are not a design problem, they are a result of a maintenence problem. Or the lack of it.

Originally Posted by blackbuttdisco

If LR thought a smaller radiator would do, they would have fitted one.

I like your reasoning about size, but how do you explain the Sump plug size on a V8, surely that's over engineering by Land Rover. or was it a case of we have this very large socket in the factory, let's design a sump plug to fit it.

Thanks guys,

Can I assume from the comments that the ones on flea bay are a different size to the standard one?

If so, does that mean I am better going with the recur rather than the replacement?

Cheers guys
Phil

Have you thought about getting on from the UK, mine was £165 for a recore for a V8i auto