Thread: Cooked v8 Advice please

Depends on what you mean by extreme overheating. Your temperature gauge means little, its only a guide and a poor one at that. If you lost only a minor amount of coolant it may well be fine. If you had to add more than 1-2 litres I'd worry a little more. The truth is, you'll never accurately predict the death of a LRV8 by overheating, they fail when they feel the urge to. 240K is smack in the middle of their expected age range where a significant number of them will have died of a cracked block anyway. If you keep an eye on coolant levels daily for a few weeks and it doesn't use any just keep driving it.

Lost a lot, cracked inside of cap, allowed engine to cool well before Refilling radiator,

So if I am correct and read between the lines, although the motor seems fine I can expect it to distroy itself regardless, is that what is meant?
What ever happened to the indistructable Land Rover like the ex army ffr series 2a I used to own before I got too old for it, sigh I guess technology marches on, but in all seriousness what are the chances of us getting any life expectancy out of it? Or would I be better disposing of the vehicle before it shows magor issues, I have looked into sleeve replacement before for our RRC and the cost is prohibitive on our kind of budget and this disco was in great mechanical condition, well cared for and serviced properly, except of course for the vicious couple, any further thoughts folks?

No,no,no, it sounds like you are contemplating writing off maybe a good vehicle, if it is because you do not have the experience and expertise with the spanners sounds like you need to seek out a friend that has those skills to give an accurate assessment of the engine. Try for someone who has a bit of history with Land Rover, but in the absence of that just a guy who is a good mechanic on engines, and has good diagnosing skills, a rare commodity today among mechanics, but there are still some around that can.
Land Rovers have some sort of undeserved reputation of being "different to the extreme" somehow from other vehicles among a lot of mechanics, the dealers are in a big part responsible for that with their "money grubbing" ways so they can charge the earth for simple repairs/servicing.
Get some basic cooling system checks done to see what if anything has been damaged, it is hard for people on here, (this forum), to try and second guess just what has happened to your overheated engine, even though there is a great depth of experience and precedent, but without the benefit of seeing first hand what has gone wrong, the best answer you may expect will be that the last experience ended in absolute disaster, so...............? this may not be so for your vehicle, you have already had a lot of the issues attended to.
There is no mystery, and with some simple well carried out repairs and maintenance your Disco may still be ok, they are still pretty indestructable.
We have two, and I know you can't kill 'em. Gaz

Pressure test the cooling system to see if any leaks are present? Shouldnt be too hard or costly to do. u can also try that fluid that changes color if water is in you system when you put it near your exhaust pipe.