Thread: An eventful evening (short version)

Short version.
Travelling home yesterday evening in the 2008 2.4 Puma the engine developed a knocking sound so I pulled over. Pulled the bonnet got the Mrs to start the Puma. Once the revs started the knocking started so cut it off. Some weeks ago our daughter who has special needs developed all of the symptoms of a blood clot in her leg. Once in hospital she was being treated for a blood clot but all the test said it was not a blood clot but did not say what it was. So we were sent home and the leg improved over the next week or so. Usually if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck. So even though my daughters symptoms look like a blood cloth, walk like a blood clot and quack like a blood clot, it is not a blood clot
Yesterday evening the blood clot symptoms had returned and my daughter's leg did not look great so stranded at the side of the road was not the place to be. Anyway (short version) got the Land Rover towed to a secure place, got home. The Puma is to be recovered today and we have a doctor's appointment for my daughter this afternoon.
The Puma? It could be something as simple as an injector but I was not taking any chances and the engine going bang when driving in traffic.
The way things are going the Puma will be sorted quicker than my daughter.

Originally Posted by prelude

Good to read that your daughter is on the up, now let's hope the car will follow. That is a rotten bit of luck

Cheers
-P

Thank you for that.
We are waiting on a further scan for my daughter and an appointment with the blood specialist.

The annoying thing about the Land Rover is that it is well serviced and looked after. Anything that needs done is done. Engine/filter usually no more than 8,000kms. The strange thing is that doing my regular oil level checks the oil always looks good. Wipes off the fingers straight away leaving no residue so not loaded up with impurities.(See below)
I cannot fathom how the oil feed was getting blocked and that the oil pressure light did not come on at idling. If cannot have gotten blocked in one sudden movement so to speak. The oil filter does not show undue contamination, just normal oil. I use Hengst oil filters as they used to be white so anything untoward would show up. Hengst stopped making white filters. To be floored by something as simple as exhaust getting in passed injectors seals is annoying. I use to take comfort in the fact that I did not possess one of the modern Land Rover self destructing engines. I was actually thinking of the output shaft and getting it checked in case it went and left us stranded!
I have decided to get the engine repaired. This leaves me at the mercy of a third party but the mechanic currently looking after the Land Rover has had work done by him before and recommends him.
While the Land Rover is out of action I am considering getting the output shaft checked but with over 200,000kms on the original shaft perhaps I should leave well enough alone.
You do all of the checks and preventive maintenance but it will be the unexpected that gets you....

(I mentioned this some years ago here but I will do so again to explain the above. Some years ago a heavy machinery driver told me that when he worked overseas in out of the way places, every morning he would check the oil level of his bulldozer. Then he would run the dipstick through his fingers and wipe them with a cloth. If the oil came off his fingers without leaving a residue it was still good and fit for service. If on the otherhand it remained on your fingers and you needed to scrub it off it was time for a change.
Also if you rubbed the dipstick between your thumb and finger then slowly moved them apart and the oil stretched between your thumb and finger it was still good.
This was before mobile phones and the fitter/mechinic came once a week so these checks served a purpose. I know oil has come a long way since then but I still do these checks.)