Thread: Radiator

Originally Posted by laney

Hi all has any one installed an aluminium radiator the one I am looking at is on e bay think it may be Chinese but Aussie seller any advice would be great I'd copy the image to here but computers hate me

Get one from Roverlord. OEM Glasgow manufacturing, I think.

Originally Posted by laney

Hi all has any one installed an aluminium radiator the one I am looking at is on e bay think it may be Chinese but Aussie seller any advice would be great I'd copy the image to here but computers hate me

As said in previous posts on here "quality is everything" especially in a D2 radiator.

Having said that, DazzaTD5 fitted a good second hand one he scored to my D2a in Oct 17 and it ran beautifully until sold in July 19 (don't know after that).

I pulled mine out after 18years and removed an end tank to have a look.
All of the tubes were clear although the bottom 2 rows looked a bit suss.
i wonder if it is possible to undo the cleats and rod it and then replace the end tanks with a bit of silastic or gasket stuff on the gasket, as that seems to be the only stopper.
I couldn't be bothered as the GM is pretty cheap and I want reliability on my travels.
If the end tanks leak just give a tap on the cleats that hold the gasket.
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Stick with the "Genuine" LR radiator
About 3 years ago I had the radiator, water pump, thermostat and every single Hose replaced with "Genuine" parts and haven't had ANY dramas whatsoever with the cooling system despite doing 12,000 K's in 40C+ temps towing a 2t boat and another 18,00K's since then.
The "Genuine" radiators work just fine so why fit a dodgy eBay radiator when the "Genuine" ones are Not that expensive anyway.

Originally Posted by trout1105

Stick with the "Genuine" LR radiator
About 3 years ago I had the radiator, water pump, thermostat and every single Hose replaced with "Genuine" parts and haven't had ANY dramas whatsoever with the cooling system despite doing 12,000 K's in 40C+ temps towing a 2t boat and another 18,00K's since then.
The "Genuine" radiators work just fine so why fit a dodgy eBay radiator when the "Genuine" ones are Not that expensive anyway.

Yep pretty sound advice. I changed mine from a genuine LR original to the aluminium only because it was getting a bit too warm in heavy towing, and the bigger replacement fixed that niggling concern.