CoachPete
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Hi there, Complete newbie to forums and stuff and looking for help!
I've just bought a 1997 Disco 1 ES with 135,000 on the clock. For the first 170 miles it was running fine, just spotting one or two little jobs to tackle.
Then a rattle started at tickover about three minutes after starting from cold, as the rattle went away as soon as revs went over 1000rpm I thought it was probably the exhaust starting to rattle so off we set. After about 15 miles of normal driving and performance the power dropped off a bit, kickdown became less responsive, and the yellow "check engine light" started to come on then go out, sometimes as power was taken off, sometimes as power was in kickdown.
Next thing the engine died going up a hill and it was game over! Once pulled over bonnet open to find a small spurt of coolant from the Thermostat plug and a leak of coolant from lower down on the front of engine, as yet untraced. After getting recovered by the yellow team and having a look round on the drive I've established that the engine pulls over by hand smooth enough, the starter motor churns away and sounds like it's turning something but the engine ain't a turning, and the thermostat plug is life expired. Still coolant in header tank and radiator though. Temperature gauge never went over normal!
Hoping you sages out there have some ideas 'cos I'm stumped on anything newer than a 2.25 diesel!
Pete
I've just bought a 1997 Disco 1 ES with 135,000 on the clock. For the first 170 miles it was running fine, just spotting one or two little jobs to tackle.
Then a rattle started at tickover about three minutes after starting from cold, as the rattle went away as soon as revs went over 1000rpm I thought it was probably the exhaust starting to rattle so off we set. After about 15 miles of normal driving and performance the power dropped off a bit, kickdown became less responsive, and the yellow "check engine light" started to come on then go out, sometimes as power was taken off, sometimes as power was in kickdown.
Next thing the engine died going up a hill and it was game over! Once pulled over bonnet open to find a small spurt of coolant from the Thermostat plug and a leak of coolant from lower down on the front of engine, as yet untraced. After getting recovered by the yellow team and having a look round on the drive I've established that the engine pulls over by hand smooth enough, the starter motor churns away and sounds like it's turning something but the engine ain't a turning, and the thermostat plug is life expired. Still coolant in header tank and radiator though. Temperature gauge never went over normal!
Hoping you sages out there have some ideas 'cos I'm stumped on anything newer than a 2.25 diesel!
Pete
