Radiator removal advice.

If anyone has any advice on the removal of a radiator on a 1990 Disco V8, it would be appreciated as ours has got to come off due to the rather large hole caused by a hacksaw blade.

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Nikki
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Why were you hacksawing the radiator?

I don't know about the V8, but on the TDI, the most important thing is to ignore the Haynes manual and save yourself a lot of effort. The TDI rad comes out without having to remove the viscous fan, intercooler hoses or intercooler. Basically you undo the rad hoses and oil cooler hoses, take the top cover off, release the side retainer bracket and out it pops.

If you have an oil cooler on the V8, have some high temp oil resistant sealant to hand when you reattach the pipes as they seem to have a tendency to leak.

Have fun!

David.

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David French

There are two theories as to why it was there.

  1. It was chucked up from the road, and got itself wedged in the radiator.

or

  1. more likely put there by someone about 115cm tall, short, blond hair, Dads best oil spiller and general master of chaos and destruction, looks really cute but most definately isn't, who will be lucky to reach the age of
6 in about one week at the rate he's going.

I'll tell him that they've printed yet more lies.

I don't know if we have or not, but I should imagine that I will do by the time its been removed. He's going to take it to see if's worth repairing. Managed to locate a reconditioned second hand one for £100, local independant LR garage £175+VAT and out of curiosity the local franchise dealer who wanted £342.49+VAT and the old radiator in exchange.

Reply to
Nikki

My TDI rad cost £150 new from Brookwells. I guess the V8 rad is more expensive.

Reply to
David French

P'raps he needs a younger brother or sister to help to calm him down a little? :-)

Martyn

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Mother

Apparently if you also have air conditioning as well, it can turn out an even more expensive job. Someone who has worked on cars for years came round today and he looked at it. He thinks it could be repaired. It isn't a huge hole, but its near the bottom of the tank which is why there was such a huge volume of fluid escaping. Luckily it didn't overheat at all as I had only driven a mile, there was no evidence that it had been leaking until I stopped and taken the kids into school. On inspection there was barely any fluid in the reservoir, but having not taken the storm kettle out of the back of the car from the day before, and the fact that it was full of water, allwed me to drive the 2 miles home. I stopped at the garage and added more water and re-filled the kettle and stopped one more time before I got back home.

Its not been a bad thing to have happened really. At least he's put the FW hubs on the Series 3! I have sent you a couple of photo's by the way. One of the RR and one of the Series 3.

Reply to
Nikki

On or around Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:26:50 +0100, Nikki enlightened us thusly:

how much do Paddock want?

Reply to
Austin Shackles

Not tried them yet. Plan is to see if its repairable first.

Reply to
Nikki

That might prove a little difficult as I had an operation to prevent that sort of thing happening. Any way, I'd be daft to start all over again, when I've got no pushchairs, cots, baby carseats, sterilizers, bottles, sicky bibs, and smelly nappies out the way and they are all at school full time.

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Nikki

I dream of the day...

Like you say, it would be mad to want more.

Wibble wibble...

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 '77 101FC Ambulance '95 Discovery V8i

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Tim Hobbs

Mad indeed. How many more are you planning? It's not really fair for your daughter not to have a playmate you know!

Reply to
Nikki

Well now, to look at the Simmonite sisters one would certainly say 'two', but then there's the support team they need... Best to keep things like that 'in the family' really (cheaper)... ;-)

Martyn

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Mother

Martyn could perhaps provide a little friend....

Actually, I reckon a 6x6 101 could easily house a family of 5 in absolute discomfort. I'd still need the Discovery as a support vehicle, which really does make camping an absolute breeze. The fuel costs of the trip do get a bit scary though.

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 '77 101FC Ambulance '95 Discovery V8i

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Tim Hobbs

On or around Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:30:38 +0100, Tim Hobbs enlightened us thusly:

LPG. Would've probably been cheaper than all that farting around with the petrol system, too :-)

101 has loads of space for LPG tanks. Disco less so, but you can, by spending a bit more admittedly, get summat like 80 + 30 + 30, for 140l, usable capacity 112l or so. To do that you have to lose the standard petrol tank, and fit an auxiliary in the rear wing, which, along of 3 gas tanks, is what adds to the cost. the 2x30 tanks go in either side under/indisde the sills.

Depends on your anticipated use, really. A 5-seater disco in which you don't require all the boot space can have a sod-off tank in the boot and still a fair amount of boot space. Can't do the same with 7-seater if you want to use the rear seats.

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Austin Shackles

Thanks for that.... :-)

I almost did this, and if I had I'd have broken even by now, but had potentially lots of grief getting it right. I'm now doing

My dogs wouldn't like being underslung...

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 '77 101FC Ambulance '95 Discovery V8i

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Tim Hobbs

You can put a large tank under where the battery box is, relocate the batteries to behind the drivers seat, where they are on a GS. You can fit a tank above the petrol tank, where the O2 bottles go. Then you could also use the spare wheel locker, and move the spare wheel to the rear door, or on the front. Not to mention the possibilty of fixing a couple of tanks on the roof.

Alex

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Alex

Our seven-seater Discovery has three gas tanks. One under either side, plus another in place of the standard petrol tank. A smaller petrol tank lurks inside the off-side rear wing.

Cheers Gary

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Gary Sutherland

On or around Thu, 25 Sep 2003 02:30 +0100 (BST), snipped-for-privacy@cix.compulink.co.uk (Gary Sutherland) enlightened us thusly:

yeah, but you can't use some of the boot space. Sister's BF's Range Rover has twin sill tanks and a 100-litre-odd one in the boot, on the RR you still get plenty of useable boot, but that don't work if you have seats in it.

Reply to
Austin Shackles

All true, but I need somewhere to store essential items (beer, clothes, small children)...

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 '77 101FC Ambulance '95 Discovery V8i

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Reply to
Tim Hobbs

Hmm.

Beer - Store in the petrol tank, as you're not using it, that gives you a piped supply of over 200 pints

Clothes - go to a naturist site, you won't need them

Small children - these can be fitted into the original Ambulance lockers, there are three lockers, also suitable for small pets as well. Alternativly leave them where they should be while you're on holiday - with the in-laws or grandparents

Alex

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Alex

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