Hey everyone, a transmission specialist wrote several things in an email to me, see below, 4th point is suspect, the rest I have all checked, what do they mean by "switch"? They don't mean the brake light switch, do they? Here's what they asked me to check: --------- It is hard to determine...

Thanks Zefrench for that diagram, noted. Hippo - the only difference is that your HDC lamp at start up is green, mine's yellow (the same colour as the ABS light on yours and all those other caution or warning lamps that come up for you temporarily), wish I could say temporarily for me .. lol...

Hippo, just on the topic of things, when you ran your KV6 in 2WD, did you fit those snazzy (if i can call them that) blanking plates and do away with both your prop shaft and the IRD output shaft, or did you keep your IRD output shaft on? With what you stated regarding the part where the ABS...

Hi Hippo, thanks for that. I remember the green TD4, that was the "Duke of Oxley "(landyzone user name). At first it seemed somewhat similar to my scenario, but I note your comment as follows following your detailed analysis, "Rave says: "...Failures or malfunctions relating to the sensor...

Hi Hippo, no ABS error codes when I scanned it, but then again it may not be that advanced a scan tool. That was a few months ago, it was enough to let me log in to the KV6's heart and see it's pulse, breaths and some other nice graphical displays, but the software wasn't as advanced a Hawkeye...

Hi Nodge, engine was running when fluid level checked. I checked that before (with the pump) and pumping fluid all good. I did it a slightly different way but same idea, I d/c one of the unions and put it in to a plastic bottle... clever hey?! No mess..! And fluid is pumping all right. Hi Hippo...

Still no go. I tested both the left and right ABS sensors, connected the multi meters leads and as the wheel spins I can see the values jumping before it stops at 1115. Exactly same on the left hand wheel. So that's a no go. I ensured that that earth cable was nice and tight so it cant be that...

Hi Nodge, carried out more testing today, by the way, the 3 Amigos lights on the dash display are yellow not red - thus only cauion lights, not red. According to RAve, red colour means warning, yellow means caution. That's the HDC, the TC and ABS. I used a power probe tester and was able to...

Thanks Nodge. So it could possibly be something not earthed properly... I was reading RAVE on and on, esp. the "system desc and operation", and it's almost like the ABS system relies on the prop shaft being there to function correctly. I emailed Freelanderspecialist.com to elaborate on that and...

What about the Jatco auto box on the 1.8 K series engine?! LOL I can almost picture everyone's reaction to this! You know, having fitted the uprated oil rail to my 1.8, no more faults! Coolant temp needle stays where is, fans never come on as the radiator and coolant single handedly work the way...

Hi everyone, sorry to revive an old thread again, but, a few hours ago, I put everything back together on the KV6 and exactly same problem as previous. No drive in any gear. No gear display on the dash, but there's gear display next to the gear select panel. I read one of Hippo's posts on this...

Well a few weeks later and not a further drop of coolant anywhere and the tank stays at the level I left it in when I finished with the coolant. The twin cooling fans never come on anymore, the radiator and coolant do the jobs they're supposed to do, the engine has never been quieter than now...

If I won a sizeable lotto fortune of greater than $500,000, the first thing I'd do is purchase a house with a 3 or 4 car garage then buy cheap 1.8s and repair the head gasket issue then sell... like a 1.8 Freelander rescue..! They really are quite amazing to drive after this work. My engine's...

Btw something else that's never happened before this work, is, now, the Freelander cooling fans at front are never coming on at all.. I can claim that my location Australia is a lot hotter than the 1.8's birth place, but last weekend, I took it on a 1 hour trip to Centennial Park, including 1...

Yeah, all flush with the engine block facing.

Epicuser, assuming you have a 1.8, as long as it's not leaking from the head gasket area down the engine block.. Then I suppose temperatures over there don't get even close to how hot they get here in Australia, that's why I did the last HG job properly and used Hylomar sealant and renewed the...

Interestingly, the original heater matrix in some of the 1.8s seemed to have been a weak point, as, when I bought my black 1.8 a few years ago, the chap I got it off bypassed the heater core and conceded it was leaking. I replaced it and no leaks since... Interestingly, a few weeks ago when I...

A recent experience has changed my whole attitude to chemical leak sealer products, this is what the underside of my cylinder head looked like after chemical leak sealers were used : Leak Sealer blockage of Cylinder Head 1.8K Freelander - YouTube Leak sealers, for a short time, worked for me...

I forgot to address your situation specifically, the reason it leaks at an incline and not when your parked on straight ground, is that the engine block/cylinder head coolant passages and not filled with coolant to capacity due to a hole in the system at the same area somewhere (head gasket...

Hi Popeye, have you been able to find the source of your coolant leak? My 1.8 Freelander, 2000 model, started off like that, extremely hard to find leak, I swapped numerous hoses, etc, until I researched more and more and found it.. The reason it leaks when your at an incline is that it's coming...