Keep the faith, half of the tyre is still inflated 🤪👍

I'm sure it will all be fixable and you will have fun with your land rover. I wouldn't feel stupid. Your landy works and drives. Some of us (the real stupid ones 🙄) buy total rust buckets and then spend £££££ and still don't have them in a...

EP90 is fine for the transfer box. They won’t need to drain the box, but they may choose to, 5l is plenty!

+1 on the capillary type. Fitted 1 to the S1 and you even see these move when the stat opens.

Is this the front output seal? Previous owner gave us two of these

Thanks that makes us feel better, we did expect leaks, just not to this extent 😅

The capilliary type gauges are pretty decent. Have had one on my 200tdi for years, very accurate and requires no power. Tim is the make I have fitted.

I hope so 🤞it's getting we get our dream truck and can't use it. Keep worrying its something worse and that's why he got rid

I wouldn’t worry too much, mine has been dripping transfer box oil, gear oil and engine oil for at least the 15 years I’ve owned it. They’re notorious for it, shouldn’t do it, but they mostly do! The front output seal leak, which yours looks...

Yep, that’s gear oil from the t-box. Front output seal, as mentioned, is No1 suspect.

I fitted a paired Durite sender and gauge a couple of years back. The gauge displays the actual temperature reading, but for whatever reason it’s now reading 15C ish off. I can’t be ar•sed trying to trace the issue, so I’m going to fit a...

My thermostat opens at 85’ on an analogue dial. That equates to 3/4 the way up the Land Rover temp dial

That's better, they do actually run quite hot. When I was looking into it a while back and I came across someone else's forum post with a similar issue. He booked it in at a specialist who suggested mid 90s is correct for a 200tdi. Pretty sure my...

Out of interest what temps are you getting on the top hose?

Approx. 75C at the thermostat housing/start of hose, 60C at the bottom of the rad, 50/55C at the bottom of the pump. The gauge was showing 90-95C. This was after a 15 minute run at 23C.

Infrared thermometer (tested against known hot things - boiling kettle and my forehead), shows that the gauge is reading about 15C too high, which would tie-in with what it should be showing. So, we have an electrical issue somewhere. Time to...

My 200 disco engined LR used to go up to the red on a hot day. No viscous. Have an electric pull fan that I switch on to drop temps. Rare it goes on while normal driving. Only if you tow or off road for hours where the air flow is not great. .

I’ll see if I can borrow a decent one. The hose and rad are definitely hotter than they should be! Bloody thing, there’s literally not a single week where something isn’t wrong (and this is after 15 years of ownership).

I have only ever seen my 200 get got twice, once off roading it in the winter for hours and the thing nearly heat seized! and two when the new stat failed to open, but car still got me the 10 miles home driven gingerly. No viscous on mine, leccy...

Cheers, I’ll try that.

I think the current one is Britpart, replaced about 10 years ago when the oil cooler imploded! Might be a weak pump - I have found receipt for a pump I bought about 5 years ago, but I have to say I don’t actually remember fitting it! Probably...

Viscous fan still fitted?

No, I ought to get a leccy one fitted, but she’s run fine without one for years, I don’t work her hard.

Let it cool down & remove the plug in the top of the rad. You should see water flow from the top hose

My son fitted a Britpart rad to his and it's lasted fine and cools well, if that's any help. Water pump should come off OK if the cambelt has been changed as per recommendations.

200tdi (out of a Disco, but same thing!) had started to get a bit toasty! Top hose is too hot to touch, as is most of the rad, bottom hose is also hotter than I like. New rad time? Any reliable way of testing the pump without trying to take it...

They look like this bulge in the middle of the front and rear axles. I changed my oils months ago ;), but it doesn’t make a puddle. To believe your gearbox and transfer box has been out recently to blame it on an “overfill “ is a bit of a...

They’re not meant to leak, but honestly, that is perfectly normal for a Defender! You’ll soon learn not to park on expensive-looking driveways.

I’m with Admiral too. They were the best price around, didn’t mind the minor modifications either.

Strange, mine went down last year. Try Admiral as I have a Td5 90, my son has a Ninety (200tdi) and a D2 no problems or restrictions. I found the specialists more expensive or restrictions, in a garage ( yeah right). A-plan said we are in a high...