My First Landy

Given a Freelander 1 1.8 petrol
Does not seem to over heat so hoping head gasket is good. Lots of creaking from underneath and the odd clunk. Suspect the Diff mounts are shot.
Anything else i should watch out for ?

Thanks
Struan

Mayo on the dipstick

Edit: and under the oil filler cap and in the throttle body and connected hoses.

Take a look here
https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/i-bought-me-a-freelander.275148/
and here
https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/looks-like-ive-done-it-again-doh.293904/
for the things I did to mine.

Thanks Alibro
Happy to say no signs of mayo !

Struan said:

Thanks Alibro
Happy to say no signs of mayo !

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Good news, but keep checking every week or two. It will fail eventually, it could be months or years from now but it will happen and if you are in the habit of checking fluid levels you'll catch it early so no harm will be done and replacing the gasket is not that hard a job.

Alibro said:

Good news, but keep checking every week or two. It will fail eventually, it could be months or years from now but it will happen and if you are in the habit of checking fluid levels you'll catch it early so no harm will be done and replacing the gasket is not that hard a job.

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Many thanks Alibro and great "how to guides" by the way!! Have you done one for a head gasket ?

Yip, My first K series was fine when I bought it but it had 105k miles so I figured it was probably due to go for the second time (it came with no history) and sure enough I started getting mayo on the dipstick about three months later. I had a pig of a job sorting it as the previous owner didn't seem to know anything about regular servicing. Here is a thread I started
https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/head-bolts-jammed-and-wont-pull-out.279069/