Originally Posted by
AK83
Another thing you need is patience. Totally understand the desire to get it going, but being more methodical and careful will help to make it more reliable.
If you've never been around landrovers before, they have a reputation for oil leaks, yeah!!
Like reddirt said, whilst you've made a lot of space around the engine now, good time to renew many seals/gaskets and o-rings.
The oil coolers(heat exchanger part) have been known to leak, so you get oil in your coolant or water in your oil symptoms.
Quite a few seals in that area. remembering that the car is 20+ years old and o-rings do compress to the point that they readily leak after such a long time.
You don't have to remove the turbo to do head gasket, but doing so, it gives you a lot more room to move around there. Almost 100% for sure, the turbo drain pipe has warped, as they pretty much all do.
So check the turbo end of the flange on the pipe for flatness, and file/grind the flange face to flatten it before you waste energy and all your swear words getting it back on.
Just so you know, the inside flange bolt(should be 8mm) is a total pain to get back on. What I've now started to do is to use hex or socket head bolts of that thread size(I can't remember exactly, it may be M5, but really not sure!!) With a socket head, you can more easily get a long straight allen key more easily in there, than a 1/4 drive socket.
