On the side of the road again, any help would be wonderful!!

haha. I love this forum.

Could have helped if over this part of the country.

hold the phone..

check your carby and the mount...

do you have one of those wierdo plates thats got a pair of coolant lines running to them?

if so...

check that first...

if not....

Grab a garden hose, unplug the heater lines from the block, gravity feed a jerry to one of the heater hose outlets and then run another hose up into the top of the jerry but dont put it below the fluid level.... Leave the radiator cap on. (you want one of the jerries or a 20l oil drum with a drain tap on the bottom )


So long as you keep the water up, the engine load and speed down you can run untill the cooling system washes the fire out by plug fouling.

you will contaminate the oil doing this so you must as soon as you reach where your going dump the sump oil dump the coolant and run the engine for a couple of minutes (30 second runs) with a clean (cheap and nasty) engine oil to clear out the galleries before they get clogged with sludge.

I've made 500K with this trick.

All under control folks. Had to go down their way anyway, so collected them from Murray Bridge and towed their Landy to my secure shed a few kilometers away. They are staying with us tonight and I'll drop them at the Landy place in town tomorrow where they can get all the stuff they need. (As it happened, when I looked more closely at the gasket set I had, the only gasket it didn't have was.... you guessed it.... the head gasket!!
They'll have a look around town tomorrow and then I'll run them back to the shed tomorrow evening with all their parts and tools where they can do the job in comfort. I've spoken to the mice and redbacks and they've promised to leave the chaps alone while they work on their vehicle....
Should be back on the road in a couple days. Look out for a bright yellow LWB 4-door with a Canadian flag on the rear window.

Coop

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All under control folks. Had to go down their way anyway, so collected them from Murray Bridge and towed their Landy to my secure shed a few kilometers away. They are staying with us tonight and I'll drop them at the Landy place in town tomorrow where they can get all the stuff they need. (As it happened, when I looked more closely at the gasket set I had, the only gasket it didn't have was.... you guessed it.... the head gasket!!
They'll have a look around town tomorrow and then I'll run them back to the shed tomorrow evening with all their parts and tools where they can do the job in comfort. I've spoken to the mice and redbacks and they've promised to leave the chaps alone while they work on their vehicle....
Should be back on the road in a couple days. Look out for a bright yellow LWB 4-door with a Canadian flag on the rear window.

Coop

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LOTS of good "Landy Karma" earnt there,well done on helping out.
Andrew

Coop,

You are a champion mate !!

And three cheers for everyone from AULRO that chips in with offers of help, no matter where we are in this great country, as vast as it is, help is never far away !!

Coop,
well done mate!, a legend you truely are!

Thanks! (held up SAs honour on this one!)

(I swear I looked everywhere but cannot find an elephant stamp!)

Digger

Well done COOP, for your efforts I anoint you-- Honary Queenslander!!! [ sorry, couldn't help myself after the REDS great win tonight] It's nice to know there are still good people around, bravo zulu, Bob

Hey Travelling Canadian - I drove past your yellow Series III twice today!! I noticed it in the truck bay as I was on my way to Peake for some sand driving fun in my Disco. On the way back I wondered what was going on - as it was still there.

When you get mobile again (sounds like I am too late to assist with that now) you might like to call past and say hello if you are coming down to Adelaide. We have plenty of space on our farm and would be happy to put you up for a night if you want some free accommodation - you can pitch a tent in our front paddock or nearer to the house if you need power.

We are at Balhannah - about 25Kms out of Adelaide.

Send me a PM if you are interested.

Cheers
David

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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

hold the phone..

check your carby and the mount...

do you have one of those wierdo plates thats got a pair of coolant lines running to them?

if so...

check that first...

if not....

Grab a garden hose, unplug the heater lines from the block, gravity feed a jerry to one of the heater hose outlets and then run another hose up into the top of the jerry but dont put it below the fluid level.... Leave the radiator cap on. (you want one of the jerries or a 20l oil drum with a drain tap on the bottom )


So long as you keep the water up, the engine load and speed down you can run untill the cooling system washes the fire out by plug fouling.

you will contaminate the oil doing this so you must as soon as you reach where your going dump the sump oil dump the coolant and run the engine for a couple of minutes (30 second runs) with a clean (cheap and nasty) engine oil to clear out the galleries before they get clogged with sludge.

I've made 500K with this trick.

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That's one for the memory banks, thanks Blknight. Seems like the gasket hasn't blown into the oil galleries, just into the coolant, as they don't have any of the usual off-white frothy deposits you get with water in the oil. They have noticed a soft compression when turning it over with the crank handle, so seems like their diagnosis is probably correct.
They have been getting about 24 litres/100km which is way excessive. If the head gasket has been on the way out for some time, that might explain it, but with the same engine the worst we have had is 18 litres/100km and that was pushing into a strong headwind (like about 25-30 knots). They have the same carby as me (Zenith) but with some of the anti-pollution removed. They have done all the obvious things like tyre pressures, handbrake dragging, etc. Any suggestions as to adjustments they could make that might assist to reduce their fuel consumption a bit?
Cheers,

Coop
(Carbies are black magic to me...)