Thread: Coolant outlet housing failure

Shane, we got the TRS substitute coolant elbow and will never have to change the thing again. Mind you, if I sell the car, I'll keep the TRS bit and put the OEM part back on.

Ask Phil at TRS how many engines have been toasted by this part's failure....

Pete

Originally Posted by veebs

Very nice, though $600 would buy me 20 plastic parts. If I were to preemptively change these out every 100k km, the car will have driven 2 million km before i start to lose money... Bit hard to justify i think.

my first plastic housing lasted 80,000ks , second lasted less than 40,000ks. It all depends on if you are lucky enough to catch it before it fails doing 100kmh and empties the cooling system before you can react.

i have a spare at home and it will be going on as soon as it even looks like a weep is starting to happen. When I start doing more remote and long distance travels I will be putting 1 on . I understand your point of view though.

cheers Ean

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

my first plastic housing lasted 80,000ks , second lasted less than 40,000ks. It all depends on if you are lucky enough to catch it before it fails doing 100kmh and empties the cooling system before you can react.

Wow - didn't realise they could break so early. Do you tow a lot?

Originally Posted by veebs

Wow - didn't realise they could break so early. Do you tow a lot?

car is daily driver , tows a camper trailer couple times a year . There seems to be no consistency to the kms from this part .

cheers Ean

Genuine only is the key.

Jc

I hate the way so many vital parts are made of plastic on cars these days. Might be cheap and easy to make but could leave us stranded. But it's been going on for years and isn't going to change.
I had an FX Falcon years ago which I ran as a taxi and it too had plastic bits on the coolant system. One bit just broke one day when it was about a year old when I accidentally leant on it and it wasn't a hard lean either.
It had deteriorated so badly probably because it never got cold as the vehicle ran for something like 20 hours day.
Thinking back I think it was a plastic tee piece and I found a bit of retic stuff which was better and replaced it with that.
AlanH.

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

my first plastic housing lasted 80,000ks , second lasted less than 40,000ks. It all depends on if you are lucky enough to catch it before it fails doing 100kmh and empties the cooling system before you can react.

i have a spare at home and it will be going on as soon as it even looks like a weep is starting to happen. When I start doing more remote and long distance travels I will be putting 1 on . I understand your point of view though.

cheers Ean

Wow, 240,000km and I'm still on the original. When I do the coolant flush later this year I'll replace mine then!

Does someone have the LR part number for this?

Mine was also OK at 240,000km but I replaced it with the alloy one earlier this year pre-emptively since the car does nothing but remote trips now.

Unfortunately that led to the top hose chaffing on the engine cover, which it didn't before the change, and I only just caught it in time after completing the Gibb a few weeks ago. The LR dealer in Darwin replaced the hose but didn't fix the chaffing and it would have rubbed through in quick time again if I didn't check it. I have a piece of caravan drain hose cut down the middle protecting it now and all is good. My drain hose is 50mm shorter, however!