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Craig Rycroft
| | Posted on Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 01:51 pm: | 
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'91 TDI Disco.
Tuesday evening I was accelerating hard up a hill when my temperature started racing & the red light came on. I pulled over & the temperature dropped straight away & all was happy again. I continued the 50 mile trip home during which the temperature raced a couple of times, but all I had to do was drop my speed to bring it under control again. Also, during this time my heating would go cold - this also happened a couple of times. I had the thermostat replaced by a LR dealer on wednesday, but it didn't make any difference. This afternoon I flushed the coolant system. I then drove it around for a bit & all seemed ok, but as soon as I got on the motorway & upto 70mph it overheated again. So, I'm currently at a loss as to what to do next - has anybody got any suggestions please. |
Kyle
| | Posted on Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 01:58 pm: |
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Radiator
Kyle |
Axel Haakonsen (Axel)
| | Posted on Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 08:15 am: |
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Yep, sounds like a clogged radiator. I think Kyle is right on with this one.....  |
Paul T. Schram (Paulschram)
| | Posted on Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 09:36 am: |
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Kyle and Ax are right.
I have been there, done it! You need a new radiator and or intercooler. Now for the bad news, It took five tries to get one shipped to me without shipping damage.
Paul |
Pugsly
| | Posted on Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 09:49 am: |
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Rather than buy a new radiator, it might be easier (and cheaper) to have it re-cored locally, if you have that option |
Paul T. Schram (Paulschram)
| | Posted on Sunday, October 13, 2002 - 10:01 am: |
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Again, in my peronal experience, I paid seven dollars more for a new radiator than a recore job.
Some folk have recounted incredible prices on recores, but I didn't find it to be the case and don't bother to suggest it.
While it isn't that big of a job, nor time consuming to R&R a radiator, I don't want to disconnect my stock cooler lines any more often than necessary. By my having bought a new radiator, rather than having the existing recored or rodded, I won't have to tear it out again in a year (rodding), or in a few years when the tanks would have rotted out (recored).
Now, I am working on replacing the tubing on my coolers to get rid of the "Bump" fittings and replace them with real flare fittings, I won't have that fear and my stock of recorable radiators will be worth having collected and recored. Hopefully, all of the rest of the parts I have accumulated will be as valuable.
Paul |
E Snyder
| | Posted on Monday, October 14, 2002 - 09:20 pm: |
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I just had the fan clutch replaced on my truck, and that was causing it to overheat under certain conditions. (Typically not at higher speeds, though.) You can check to see if that is working by using a piece of rubber hose or something while it is running and see if you can stop the fan.
Just another idea.
PS- Temperature sending unit was also dead. |
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