Hi All
Got a 300Tdi some years back and done the head gasket once when I picked it up then a second time when I treated the old truck to a new head...
So it ran well for a good while, then sprang a slow (unnoticed) leak caused by pitting on the thermostat housing. Since managed to not notice all the water disappeared around the head and finally noticed as my inevitable temp guage rises to just under red. Bailed in Bala then nursed it home (now getting warm air from the blowers and leak fixed.
Anyhow got told by the nice chaps at landranger in Deeside that the inevitable head skim and replacement gasket is a cert due to the circumstances so as it's due the MOT I did as follows:
flushed with a makeshift hose attachment on the thermostat housing, brimmed the water system and ran till warm. (still nice warm air out the blowers
). Then (to enable me to MOT it) tightened the bolts around Cylinders 3 & 4 (where gasket has gone twice now) and ran the thing topped right up with water.
Symptoms as follows:
minute small bubbles out the header once it is revved hard and the expected slight rise/fall at the neck of the expansion tank (not spewing water on the floor mind). No gunk in the oil etc.
Am happy to upload a vid on u-tube if it helps?
Question to the guys out there is: are minute bubbles a sure sign on head gasket failure?
and... will driving 25 minutes (carefully) to the MOT station be ok as it will take me a good few nights at my leisure to skim and re-do the head gasket (as I'm lazy and I only use it for mud plugging)....
Hi every1 - and thanks to buster for helping me replace and lift my truck, replace trailing arms and have the confidence to learn rather than chuck it into the garage at the first sign of trouble....
Got a 300Tdi some years back and done the head gasket once when I picked it up then a second time when I treated the old truck to a new head...
So it ran well for a good while, then sprang a slow (unnoticed) leak caused by pitting on the thermostat housing. Since managed to not notice all the water disappeared around the head and finally noticed as my inevitable temp guage rises to just under red. Bailed in Bala then nursed it home (now getting warm air from the blowers and leak fixed.
Anyhow got told by the nice chaps at landranger in Deeside that the inevitable head skim and replacement gasket is a cert due to the circumstances so as it's due the MOT I did as follows:
flushed with a makeshift hose attachment on the thermostat housing, brimmed the water system and ran till warm. (still nice warm air out the blowers
). Then (to enable me to MOT it) tightened the bolts around Cylinders 3 & 4 (where gasket has gone twice now) and ran the thing topped right up with water. Symptoms as follows:
minute small bubbles out the header once it is revved hard and the expected slight rise/fall at the neck of the expansion tank (not spewing water on the floor mind). No gunk in the oil etc.
Am happy to upload a vid on u-tube if it helps?
Question to the guys out there is: are minute bubbles a sure sign on head gasket failure?
and... will driving 25 minutes (carefully) to the MOT station be ok as it will take me a good few nights at my leisure to skim and re-do the head gasket (as I'm lazy and I only use it for mud plugging)....
Hi every1 - and thanks to buster for helping me replace and lift my truck, replace trailing arms and have the confidence to learn rather than chuck it into the garage at the first sign of trouble....
