Thread: This is going to hurt! D2 TD5

Well just had the phone call, Ouch it was the Oil cooler that went might have it back on the road next Wednesday/Thursday, the cooler had 2 holes in it.

They have ordered the parts and apparently the cooler alone is $800 and will be the only delay, with gaskets/oil/coolant and other misc items with labour OMFG $1710

He said at least it wasnt a blown head or block like they suspected.
With 250k on it I suppose somethings can go wrong that you cant get to with normal servicing.

And people wonder why I drink like a fish!

More later from a very soon to be broke Darren with a slightly to say the least miffed wife.

That's because LR will only sell you the complete cooler not just the insert. Its usually just the insert corrodes and starts to leak oil

get the old cooler out, take it to a hydraulics shop and have them fabricate a pipe with the same fittings at the same distance. Take that to an aircon place and have them wrap it in fin wrap (a wrap that you can put round a copper pipe to turn it into a heat sink) put that back in.

Unit cost should be sub $200. + fitting.

Originally Posted by Dazza67

( still dont know how they got in)

Not very hard to break into.
NRMA serviceman showed me how when I locked my keys in with it running. Once He knew what he was doing took all of 10seconds to have all doors unlocked. PM me if you want to know how he did it. Don't really want to put it on a public forum but if you think about it you should be able to work it out.