Thread: Heads or not?

TTY are designed to fail... dont waste your time with them.
The only people that use them are the factories. Everyone else has moved on to studs years ago...

Five million is quite a lot, not sure you should be blaming the bolts

He does get around a bit

Any update on the progress.

Nearly done, just complicated things by snapping the small wire that connects to the alternator and finding leaky master cylinder to reservoir seals. Was getting dripped on when reattaching the exhaust manifold on the driver's side. Otherwise everything else went back together well, though I did have to stand in the engine bay on the diff and frame to get the heads in place.

Got the new seals and reservoir locally from a independent Land Rover mechanic, he had lots of good tips and showed me some of his 7 Land Rovers. He uses bolts, not studs, on heads too.

Will be practicing reattaching terminals to scrap wire tomorrow before fixing the alternator wire. Hopefully will test drive this weekend.

Shell

Yeah mechanics like bolts for clients because it's a big cost saving and bolts are also much quicker. There is no doubt studs are the superior way to clamp when doing it post-factory.. Cheers

Took a while but the head gasket job is now done. Since my last update I have learned that one shouldn't take the inertia switch off the fire wall and place upside down in the engine bay.

Had O2 error codes after the test drive, a clean and cable tie on the connection sorted those.

And I broke the alternator wire, see my other post.

Engine sounds so much quieter and less boat like than before. No leaks so far. Only problem is the ACE pump seems to have failed... the orange ACE light is on, pump won't prime by hand, won't fill using gravity, and doesn't move the fluid in the reservoir. Any ideas anyone?

Shell

Originally Posted by ozscott

I had a gasket blow within 5000k with bolts. In the factory they tightened them down all at the same time with a machine. Can't be down like that at home. You might get lucky. Plenty don't and later move to studs. Worth the dollars. Cheers.

Well I’m convinced, my head gasket just failed after about 5,000km too. Not sure yet if it’s just the gaskets though, it all went pair shaped in an instant. Could be the block.