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Now to the good stuff. A couple of weeks back my 93 Disco, which has about 190,000 KM's started running hot. I found it was loosing coolant through a split hose at the back of the water pump. I replaced the hose and put coolant in 50/50 mix. I also checked out the thermostat and found it had kind of sprung into a funny position, sort of half open/closed. Anyway, as I'm in Australia, pretty warm, I just thought I leave the thermostat out for now.
The engine still runs at over half way on the temperature gauge, and today my automatic gearbox temperature light came on. I figure that cools through the radiator too. I flushed my radiator with the usual 3 buck flush you can put in it, but I also took off the top and bottom hose and I seem to have a pretty good rate of flow, i.e. the water goes in quick and comes out seemingly unhindered. Logically though it seems to be a radiator problem doesn't it? All my lube levels in the engine and gearbox seem good.
Just more info in case you are still reading The water in Perth is really hard, so is it actually likely I have a calcium build up in the radiator? If so can it be budged? Can this be the case if I have a good flow through the radiator when I put my water hose in the top?
Don't know where to go from here but am afraid of getting shafted by a dealer with a big bill so would really appreciate a good push in the right direction. Would love some fast feedback then hopefully I can set about fixing it over the weekend.
Thanks all! Have a great week!
Now to the good stuff. A couple of weeks back my 93 Disco, which has about 190,000 KM's started running hot. I found it was loosing coolant through a split hose at the back of the water pump. I replaced the hose and put coolant in 50/50 mix. I also checked out the thermostat and found it had kind of sprung into a funny position, sort of half open/closed. Anyway, as I'm in Australia, pretty warm, I just thought I leave the thermostat out for now.
The engine still runs at over half way on the temperature gauge, and today my automatic gearbox temperature light came on. I figure that cools through the radiator too. I flushed my radiator with the usual 3 buck flush you can put in it, but I also took off the top and bottom hose and I seem to have a pretty good rate of flow, i.e. the water goes in quick and comes out seemingly unhindered. Logically though it seems to be a radiator problem doesn't it? All my lube levels in the engine and gearbox seem good.
Just more info in case you are still reading The water in Perth is really hard, so is it actually likely I have a calcium build up in the radiator? If so can it be budged? Can this be the case if I have a good flow through the radiator when I put my water hose in the top?
Don't know where to go from here but am afraid of getting shafted by a dealer with a big bill so would really appreciate a good push in the right direction. Would love some fast feedback then hopefully I can set about fixing it over the weekend.
Thanks all! Have a great week!