Fool me once... bleeder tee

[anglotron]

Just a friendly reminder to all the V8 LR3 owners to change the crappy plastic coolant bleeder tee on the top of the engine. It’s a ticking time bomb and this is the second one that’s failed on me.

The first one, which I assumed was the original, broke at 86k just after I bought the truck. I’m now on 140k so the second one lasted 60k or six years. Fortunately I was only two minutes from home this time and only lost a liter of coolant, rather than in the middle of soda lake like last time, which was a bit annoying.

Found a nice hard anodized aluminum 5/16 barb to 1/8 NPT tee fitting on eBay for $10 and another $4 for the plug. Cheaper than the genuine part and should last forever. Do it. Do it now!

 

[Houm_WA]

Get to the choppah!!!

 

[chakadog]

This just happened to us—silly plastic bleeder just fell apart, luckily after a trip to the car wash, not a trip to the mountains. Not bad I guess after almost 20 years—but shame on me for lack of preventative maintenance.
Thought I'd give this old thread a bump and ask for opinions about what and where are the weak points after almost 20 years? Is the best idea to swap out *all* coolant hoses at once? Heh—of course yes with unlimited budgets and I may yet do that. But in the short term... what and where are the ticking time bombs with the LR3 V8?