Thread: Magical Mechanical Moments with Mick & The Mack Truck

Originally Posted by stevo68

Please, please, please tell me it had nothing to do with me and that the issue was pre existing ,

Regards

Stevo.......possibly looking for new mates

Redlining a diesel is never a good thing to do stevo





not that you would do that

bad stevo!

should have remembered the mac truck has another 4 gears

Originally Posted by MickG

Not so Magical Mechanical Moments with Mick & The Mack Truck

Coolant issues would indeed appear to be the dreaded head gasket. Booked in for the job 14th July so no trips for me in the mean time. Why oh why is owning a land rover so bitter sweet

Is it just coincidence that the low coolant problem happened after you had the alarm fitted?????.

I hope the guy that designed the TD5 gets diseases that no one has ever heard of and it ends up costing s...loads for the treatment. Also you can only get the medicine from one supplier and they sting you for it.

Justin

Yes, i'd like to meet the designer too. Although the low coolant alarm has been in the car for a couple of years now and only recently started to have problems. Thank god it was there though as the amount of coolant I have been lossing due to over pressurising was staggering. Also geting slight hydraulicing due to fluid obviously getting back the other way to the piston head (or what ever the damned thing is called).......hope I have not bent anything

Stay tuned and lets hope it magical from now on eh

Originally Posted by MickG

Yes, i'd like to meet the designer too. Although the low coolant alarm has been in the car for a couple of years now and only recently started to have problems. Thank god it was there though as the amount of coolant I have been lossing due to over pressurising was staggering. Also geting slight hydraulicing due to fluid obviously getting back the other way to the piston head (or what ever the damned thing is called).......hope I have not bent anything

Stay tuned and lets hope it magical from now on eh

o h, s h i t.

Bloody Hell Mick, thats not good news!

Hows it progressing?

Rgds
Pete

Originally Posted by Psimpson7

Bloody Hell Mick, thats not good news!

Hows it progressing?

Rgds
Pete

Not good at all Bascally the car is sitting on my drive waiting until Monday 14th July when it will go to Rick's for repair. Depending on the outcome of this, I may be tranplanting the runing gear and good stuff from my car to a 90.......if I can convince my brother in law to sell me his at a reasonable price. I will then have a ceremonial burning of my cars engine

I too had a coolant alarm "activate" in the wilds of W.A. Scared the daylights out of us when it went off. A sudden stop and a quick check found no problem and it stopped as quickly as it started. It kept going off intermittently over the next few days and drove us mad. I disconnected the float level in the overflow rank, all to no avail. It kept going off. I disconnected the whole darn thing under the dash to shut it up. On arrival home in Sydney the defender went back to the fitters. Guess what??!! A faulty earth connection to the alarm module. Simple but annoying. Jim