Need Help?!

[onemind32]

Hey guys may i say Thank you All (especially Joey) for all the previous Help!!!

OK, so i Have a '98 Land Rover Disco. LSE i have pretty much redone the engine.

-Brand new water pump
-new alternator
-new head gaskets

all the fluids have been checked out and topped off.

the previous problem with my disco. is that it overheated

once all of these fixes where done it run fine for a while (about 1 and 1/2 hours of drive time)

after which the engine began to overheat again.
while trying to test out it's time that it takes to overheat i realized that the red oil light was flickering on and off then after a while staying on.

could a need for an oil change be the cause of the recent overheating?

I've been working on it with my father and we are out of ideas...

Any information is always appreciated!

 

[joey]

If it is low enough for the oil light to come on and not an oil pump issue then yes this can cause an overheat.... well for that matter so can a pump that is going bad.

 

[wolf]

I would not fool around if its the oil pump going soft as that can lead to burnt camshaft lobes etc. and ultimately a seized engine (I have burnt a cam as a result of a soft oil pump before). Joey s right - a soft pump can definitely lead to heating issues.

Wolf

Hey guys may i say Thank you All (especially Joey) for all the previous Help!!!

OK, so i Have a '98 Land Rover Disco. LSE i have pretty much redone the engine.

-Brand new water pump
-new alternator
-new head gaskets

all the fluids have been checked out and topped off.

the previous problem with my disco. is that it overheated

once all of these fixes where done it run fine for a while (about 1 and 1/2 hours of drive time)

after which the engine began to overheat again.
while trying to test out it's time that it takes to overheat i realized that the red oil light was flickering on and off then after a while staying on.

could a need for an oil change be the cause of the recent overheating?

I've been working on it with my father and we are out of ideas...

Any information is always appreciated!