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Posted by phil
on 10/23/2008, 10:42 am, in reply to "Re: Freelander losing coolant - no power loss or water in oil."
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: ******IMPORTANT********
: DON'T PUT BARR'S LEAKS, STOPLEAK, RAD WELD
: OR ANY OTHER COOLANT LEAK STOPPER NER IT.
:
: Don't change the head gasket (yet)
:
: The most likely source of the leak is the
: inlet manifold gasket, If ignored it will
: destroy your cylinder head gasket. It is a
: rubber gasket and shrinks over time. Rover
: introduced a modified "green"
: gasket (which your vehicle should already
: have) modified studs and a revised
: tightening procedure . This was however
: only a partial cure and the gaskets have a
: life of about 4 years and should be changed
: as a service item. It only takes about 30
: minutes to change he gasket however it may
: take much longer than this to bleed any
: trapped air out ther cooling system. The
: inlet manifold is unbolted the contiuous air
: bleeder fitting on belt end of the manifold
: should be cleaned out and alsdo the pipe
: fitting at the rear of the thermostat should
: be examind for leaks as the the
: "O" ring which seals it is known
: to cause slight leaks after a few years
: service.
: Read the Rover K16 workshop manual before
: doing this particularly Rovers revised
: coolant bleeding instruction for the K16
: engine.
:
: USE ONLY THE CORRECT COOLANT FOR YOUR
: VEHICLE -- two typeswere used by Rover
: Glycol based (black labled on colant tank
: filler) and OAT (Yellow lablel n coolant
: tank filler) THEY MUST NOT BE MIXED, and
: coolant type can only be changed after a
: full flush with an acid based cleaner.
:
: hi i have the same problem i'm loseing fluid but there are no visible signs of any leaks my freelander is the gs 1.8 model its aleady on its second engine , andi don,t want this one to go the same way ; also could this be the reason why my cooling fans do not come on, i've changed the thermal switch ,i 'hot wired the fans and they work can you help thanks phil
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