Overheating 101/V8 (yet again!)

Oct 11, 2003 23 Replies

On or around Sat, 11 Oct 2003 18:48:15 +0100, Tom Woods enlightened us thusly:

boiled the 110 today, after trundling up a steep bit of UCR at low speed. Mind, I'd left the cap purposely loose so as not to pressurise the system, in hopes that this would make the rad leak less; of course, this would make it prone to boil sooner. Fortunately, there was a large puddle nearby, so I topped it up and continued, this time with the cap done up.

nice lane, too. dunno if it's legal, but the off-road dirt-bike crowd seem to use it a lot, which don't prove anything. And *we* kept to the track for all except one rather deep looking puddle, where there was a very clear diversion around it. went through all the others, despite evidence that others hadn't been doing so.

I guess if it'd been raining a lot the water would be deeper, however, if it'd been raining a lot some of the "bypasses" would be decidedly iffy anyway. At least the track has a hard surface.

Yeah bloddy medics cupboard and having a prototype didn't help as it must have been built in the back as apposed to fitted.

Lee D

It's not what I would choose, mostly because it depends on a driver to be able to program it. I could almost certainly make it work, but a native RS232 feed with some decent documentation would be much easier to drive from both Windows and the lesser, niche operating systems.

I think Martyn has just spilt his coffee...

Tim Hobbs

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

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On or around 11/10/03 10:26 pm, Austin Shackles using , in article ID snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, scribbled:

Yep, a great day out today and some very nice Welsh lanes indeed. I didn't get a pic or a video of Austin's 110 boiling over, though :-(

It was nice to get my Discovery off tarmac for proper for a change. Strangely enough when I went to switch into low box the lever just moved easily without a single bit of resistance at all - all the previous Discovery's I've had have been b*****s to shift that lever! Don't know whether it's down to better servicing or if this is a particular characteristic of the 2003 MY?

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