Headache doesn't even come close- freelander

Help me? I'm new to this forum, so hello everyone.

I hope that someone is able to help me out, I bought a freelander yesterday, took it a test drive and it spluttered along the road and blew up.

The revs were erratic, I got about 500m and it came to an abrupt stop. The engine will not restart. There was an issue with the water pump (was pouring water out the side of it). When it stopped there was a puff of thick white smoke from the exhaust.The timing belt has not snapped and visually everything looks okay. Head gasket does not appear to be leaking either.

Any help that anyone can offer would be appreciated.

Hello and welcome

Sorry to not get right to the point but I can't see past this: you took it for a test drive, it broke and you still bought it?

Yeah as asides to the engine issue it appears to be immaculate, and I got it for 1/3rd of the asking price, just got it home on a recovery truck, I have a 2.2 lwb frontera to run around in, but decided to get a freelander, I know the logic thing would have been to walk away from the sale but it was in lovely condition

92jdegnan said:

Yeah as asides to the engine issue it appears to be immaculate, and I got it for 1/3rd of the asking price, just got it home on a recovery truck, I have a 2.2 lwb frontera to run around in, but decided to get a freelander, I know the logic thing would have been to walk away from the sale but it was in lovely condition

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Ok fair enough. Some details about it would help people to help you, reg date, engine size, type etc also have a look about in the Freelander section and try a search

As I said in reply to the same thread you posted in the FL section. Get your money back

It's a 1.8 petrol, 2000 Xreg, done 100k. I got it for next to nothing so expect to have to spend money on it, and I'm not shy about doing the work, just baffled as to what the fault could be. Hopefully someone else has experienced the same issue. Other Than the engine the car appears immaculate. I have seen the car running prior and all seemed okay

If there was water coming out of the coolant pump then its failed. The engine has over heated and possibly warped the head and knackered the head gasket

I sounds like the pump has gone which will mean head gasket as well.

Dont mess around get another engine for it or strip it for bits.

quick question here,
if you drained all the coolent water out, took the plugs out, and spun the engine over, does it blow water residue out the spark plug holes?
after this check, replace the cleaned/dried plugs and see if the engine starts and runs with NO water..
if it actually runs for a very brief period without water - then the problems are head/and or gaskit/ something other..

if it dont run, then its junk basically...

easye1 said:

quick question here,
if you drained all the coolent water out, took the plugs out, and spun the engine over, does it blow water residue out the spark plug holes?
after this check, replace the cleaned/dried plugs and see if the engine starts and runs with NO water..
if it actually runs for a very brief period without water - then the problems are head/and or gaskit/ something other..

if it dont run, then its junk basically...

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I like this logic.

Tom

I haven't tried that but will do, thanks for that check

Might be a stupid question but surely 500m isn't enough to get the engine hot enough to blow the head gasket?

CalumM said:

Might be a stupid question but surely 500m isn't enough to get the engine hot enough to blow the head gasket?

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On a real car, no

Got to the bottom of it, coolant hose is full of thick oily water, and whole engine is full of brown mudy water, head gasket is gone

92jdegnan said:

Got to the bottom of it, coolant hose is full of thick oily water, and whole engine is full of brown mudy water, head gasket is gone

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Have you read this thread:

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f9/freelander-1-8-k-series-hgf-more-data-36863.html

Makes good reading on repair or replace.

bet the liners have moved.

92jdegnan said:

Got to the bottom of it, coolant hose is full of thick oily water, and whole engine is full of brown mudy water, head gasket is gone

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you say you got it cheap.then just replace thengine with a recon one,or a known good one with the modified head gasket etc.