Help me with my 94 Range Rover!

[johnfaires]

Hey guys,

So I bought my first Range Rover knowing it needed a head gasket. I took it in to a European Speciality mechanic and they redid the head gasket. Since then they have not been able to get it to stop blowing coolant out of the coolant reservoir. I have taken it back 4 times and it still does the same thing. They have replaced the reservoir tank and cap and re-flushed the entire system.

I only need to drive it about 10km for it to 'pop'. It doesn't seem to overheat according to the gauge, although the engine compartment gets quite warm IE: the pole that holds the hood up is pretty hot to the touch. It also starts to sound really knockey (not a word). I have attached a couple videos and unfortunately the sound on it didn't really come through well. The knocking is much louder in person.

Check the videos out here:

Movies

Any ideas guys?

[bjwhite]

Sounds like they screwed it up big time. They need to open it back up...

[p76rangie]

obviously not a head gasket. Did they check for a slipped liner while they had the heads off?

[Rockclimbing]

this sounds similar to the problem i had with my MG. Possibly a bad head/heads?

[Stevelkinevil]

slipped liner.....? cant tell from the vid if that was bad enough to be a rod knock but either way it doesn't bode well.

[johnfaires]

Well that doesn't sound to promising.

I took a much higher quality video of it. You can really hear the knocking. Check it out here:

MobileMe Gallery

John

P.S. Yah I know, I have a bad strut.

[p76rangie]

Rust inside the exhaust pipe is not a good sign