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62Sunbeam
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SO in the hell that is my life here in sunny Southern California. Actually my life isn't hell but it's just as hot and yesterday when I drove to work it was almost 100 degrees and of course I had the A/C on high. I parked my car after my 40 minute commute and drive up the long dirt road to the ranch where I'm working and when I parked my Disco in a small patch of shade and it proceeded to boil over via the expansion tank cap. Spewing stemm and coolant.
After it had a chance to cool down I pened the radiator cap and saw that it was half empty.
I topped it off ran the engeine till the thermostat cyled and turned on the heat to make sure there was coolant everywhere there was supposed to be and drove it home.
Today I drove it back to work and while it was cooler and it did not over heat the top radiator hose was kind of girgling. Nothing awful just some bubling sound coming from the tube up out of the thermostat housing.
I wanted to make sure the thermostat wasn't faulty so I repaced it with what I was told was a OEM spec 190 degree unit.
Funny thing is that while it hasn't over heated it still makes the bubbling sound.
The truck was also tough to start when hot before all of this and continues after the thermosat was replaced.
Engine fan seems to be working OK
Temp needle never got above 1/3
Any thoughts??
Please don't say blown head gasket. Oil seams fine and there is no aroma of coolant at the exhaust.
Thanks
Eric
95 Disco 173K miles
After it had a chance to cool down I pened the radiator cap and saw that it was half empty.
I topped it off ran the engeine till the thermostat cyled and turned on the heat to make sure there was coolant everywhere there was supposed to be and drove it home.
Today I drove it back to work and while it was cooler and it did not over heat the top radiator hose was kind of girgling. Nothing awful just some bubling sound coming from the tube up out of the thermostat housing.
I wanted to make sure the thermostat wasn't faulty so I repaced it with what I was told was a OEM spec 190 degree unit.
Funny thing is that while it hasn't over heated it still makes the bubbling sound.
The truck was also tough to start when hot before all of this and continues after the thermosat was replaced.
Engine fan seems to be working OK
Temp needle never got above 1/3
Any thoughts??
Please don't say blown head gasket. Oil seams fine and there is no aroma of coolant at the exhaust.
Thanks
Eric
95 Disco 173K miles