oh boll***s

done the head gaskets, sealed everything started her up sounded lovely. looked underneath and omg its loosing water from the r/h side of the engine front & back and dosent appear to have any water flow passed the head :doh::doh::doh:

started stripping it again,,,, what would cause this ???? the old gasket on that side wasnt bad and certainly wasnt leaking before, what have i done wrong

vally gasket or you put head gasket on upside down..

As "J" says, plus are the hoses secure to the heater pad fitted to the bottom of the throttle body.

j the range said:

vally gasket or you put head gasket on upside down..

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dont think its the valley gasket, but will double check,

i favour the fact that ive been a **** and put gasket in upside down:doh:

thanks guys

robp38 said:

dont think its the valley gasket, but will double check,

i favour the fact that ive been a **** and put gasket in upside down:doh:

thanks guys

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Get the Mods to change yer username to ...Upside Down Rob!!!

bad luck. I bet it takes you half the time to get it all off again.

it only took 2 1/2 hours to strip it down then 2 hours to get the last bolt out of the exhaust manifold !!!!

light stopped play today so taking the head off in the morning

took head off (again) the bolts seemed very loose, think i may have missed a 90 degree turn on them :doh: oh gasket was on right way

so i starts to put it back together, carefully going round each head bolt in turn as rave says, lovely i thought, lets see the barsteward leak now!. put all the push rods in and located them in the rocker, srewed all the bolts down finger tight, got the socket out tightened em down 1, 2, 3, 4 snap, oh sh*t, this is getting silly now :doh:

head off and down to the engineers to get it drilled out. oh by the way the main stealer only sells the rocker bolts in multiples of 5 ?

Well thats a bit of bad news. Better snap now rather that later doing a ton down the M1

Willos said:

Well thats a bit of bad news. Better snap now rather that later doing a ton down the M1

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dont think it would ever make it to the M1 from here

Chin up matey. Its a good job Range Rover dont make a boat as they would be done for littering the sea bed. Do you think your local garge would have taken the head back off and sent it back to the machine shop. You have to ask yourself this question as I've seen some shockers in my time.
I've had a car with a receipt for £1500 for an engine swop. Not one of the factory naf jubilee clip disturbed. My Dads Merc had a right hand wishbone fitted to the left. They blamed the part dept as they ordered the right one. At least you will know the works done and its done to your standards. Thats why I've gone done the Irontite road. I've done every thing to make sure all up to spec and nothing else to blame but a crack somewhere in the block.

bored with it now


i want my rangie back, its not fair:frusty::frusty:

how far off are you now rob? come on mate get your finger out.. lol

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how far off are you now rob? come on mate get your finger out.. lol

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Changing the head gaskets is only a days job, he must be a ex Brit Rail worker taking this long.

wammers said:

Changing the head gaskets is only a days job, he must be a ex Brit Rail worker taking this long.

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British Gas more like

Datatek said:

British Gas more like

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Yeah you maybe right. Claw used to work for them i believe. Well at least turn up every morning less allowed sick days.

j the range said:

how far off are you now rob? come on mate get your finger out.. lol

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got to wait for engineers place to open after the bank holiday. snapped a rocker bolt in the head :doh:

got my head back, only took him ten minutes to sort it out.

but the main stealers still havent got me a new rocker shaft bolt... they promised me that it would be in this morning,,,lying gits... got to wait till tomorrow now:frusty:

bloody hell robi could have gone and got you one and posted it faster. i hate steelers never got what you need..

problem is its a dealer only part.. so they got you over a barrel