Thread: Thermostat TD5

Have you tried Karkraft?

I'll see if I can find the box, but at amost 300,000km I replaced mine. The car comes up to temp really quickly now compared to the LandRover one, its great.

I'm sure I went cheap when I did mine, maybe 5 years and 90K klms ago now.

Thermostat was changed only because I had rad out to change that, much easier access, and since I was flushing and changing stuff and wanted to fit an 82°C thermostat too.

Rad was cheapie off ebay too.
Thermostat came in a plain white box, no branding, and only reason I remember this specific detail(and I can barely remember what happened an hour ago!) ... still have the old thermostat in the box in storage.
Possible thinking there was if cheapie turns out to be a dud I still have the old one.

I do remember that it dropped temps by about 5°C in normal running(from about 91ish to 86ish).

Is your radiator OK?

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Have you tried Karkraft?

No. I wanted something local...

I was bleeding the system just to see. The bloody bleed screw thing broke.... grrr. Can't believe that a; I need a new hose just for that and b; Melbourne is closed because of a football game that isn't being played until tomorrow.... grrrr again. Guess I'll see if I can do a temporary ( hah! ) patch on it for now cos I ain't going anywhere otherwise.

Originally Posted by AK83

Is your radiator OK?

Think so, but I might as well pull it out now I've come this far. Check the fan hub while I'm at it.

Surgeon told me I can start using my right arm again.... except it's forgotten how.

Just a quickie on the bleed screw thingy.

Same happened to me (before I changed to the silicon hoses and metal T junction there).
Long shot, but had to try ... had a wallmate(plastic type, t6hat you screw into plaster to hang stuff. Jammed that in there in place of the bleed screw and then a wood screw of just a bit thicker gauge to seal up the wallmate plug.

Worked perfectly as long as you don't have to bleed too much... maybe one or two shots. More than that will loosen the central section of the wallmate plug and will leak ... but a tiny leak ... just enough to get me home in 30mins.

Note this was just to get me from Yarraville to Coburg. Ordered a silicon hose kit that has the metal t junction instead of the octopussy like hose up there.

Back then, the single silicon kit was cheaper on ebay than a std hose. Just had a peek and now stupidly priced just for that single section compared to std hose and or an almost complete silicon hose set!

There are now 'upgraded' top hoses available, where they also have the multi hose/T junction type setup, but they're rubber and the T junctions are plastic. Same style as the V8's bleed 'bolt'. While they are multi hose setups, all the hoses are pre crimped to make a single assembly .. again you can see them on ebay, as an alternative, roughly $100ish.

Anyhow ... do you know Graham in Scoresby area sells LR parts on ebay under the name JiggityJig? Good bloke. Haven't used him(at his physical store) since his move out there, used to buy parts from him when he was in North Melb. I've only bought some stuff off ebay from him.

I saw that "upgraded" hose. About $160*. Didn't look all that great but it gave me ideas.

I'm not far from Scoresby... Well, not far when the car is going... I'll figure out something to close it up for now. Of course, I have a spare hose... the other one...

* KLR have a cheaper one...