falconho
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As title says pressurising badly, oh dear top hat liner here we come 
4.6 Spat all its new antifreeze out
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ukadamwest
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Airlock?
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+1. Bleeding it can be a PITA. You can open the bonnet and squint through to the reservoir giving it some revs and popping back out to top up.
falconho
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Have bled it got red hot heater, even after a couple of hours to cool down have a lot of pressure still,when undo cap, been keeping my eye on it last few days have had a suspicion something not right to much pressure
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Ger her hot. Release pressure. Put cap back and see if she pressurises again.
You can get UV dye to put in the coolant. Then after a day or so check the dip-stick for any glow with a UV torch.
falconho
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Been in motor trade 35 + years or so never known pressure like it Bl***y hell steam engine lol
brianp38dse
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Try a combustion gas test kit on the coolant, don't jump to slipped liners to quick we have had lots of peeps with air locks on here.
brianp38dse
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sounds more gasket then, are any of your plugs looking steam cleaned.
jamesmartin
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you must have surely in 35 years, check rads gets hot all over ,all hoses get hot and if theres no leak its h/g or block
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Not had plugs out yet,it got hot when wife driving it about a week ago AA said airlock she drove it 50 mile or so back home with some water lose but not loads AA said in report they did sniff test and ok, ive done about 100 mile or so since short jouneys and having to keep topping up, when checking after stopped for 2 or 3 hours still a lot of pressure undoing cap, done about 20 mile today and it had enough and spat all its antifreeze out almost without warning
falconho
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Exactly
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Will do some more checks tomoz, was just enjoying some time off typical lol
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the AA did a check on gasses in the coolant and it came up good ?
the heater will get hot, where the PITA is the top hose from the block to the rad. it its at the highest point, higher than the expansion bottle outflow. otherer things to check.... the Viscous fan and of course the water pump and the T-stat. the T-stat can cause issue as well apparently
the heater will get hot, where the PITA is the top hose from the block to the rad. it its at the highest point, higher than the expansion bottle outflow. otherer things to check.... the Viscous fan and of course the water pump and the T-stat. the T-stat can cause issue as well apparently
falconho
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yes according to AA report I got in email they did a sniff test when it overheated on my wife about a week ago and they bled system and she continued home, checked level in morning it took about half a litre of water, one thing I haven't mentioned is its LPG as well so lots of other plumbing ! will have a good check tomoz hopefully, supposed to be doing brakes and exhaust on other Rangie tomoz, will hopefully get them both looked at
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sniff tests arent conclusive ive done loads were the result was no gas but h/g was passing
falconho
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Yes I agree that's my opinion too, only had this 1 a couple of weeks, its a really nice one so will just have to get on with it and get it sorted
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Not sure I’ve right but someone will correct I’ve wrong check spark plugs see I’ve they are steam cleaned
ukadamwest
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when my HG failed I got a steam cleaned plug on number 7
ukadamwest
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mine is LG too. it shouldn't make a difference on LPG as the tap and return to the vaporiser is off the heater matrix return. have you read RAVE on bleeding the coolant system ? also check the viscous fan with the newspaper test. do you know when the water pump was last changed ? there's often a freak out to slipped liners, when its something simple like a water pump gone. how soon after the new coolant did it spew the coolant ? also what colour coolant ? colour mixing can cause the chemicals to gel.
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We have had one on here that had a split in the vaporizer diaphragm that over pressured the cooling system as if it was boiling over, worth a look at.
