Sorry to hear your problem, but are you sure its the gasket.
You do not mention any oil in water (or vice versa).

Try flushing out cooling system, as it may just be sediment after all the years that the car has been in service.

Don't give up until you have tried all the simple things.
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MotionInc wrote:

^^^TMI........ . My knees are now the issues, especially the right knee (old 3 wheel ATV accident), left knee was injured in a ladder accident. The right knee currently hurts so bad that I forgot about my back issue.

Would have changed to my summer tyres by now but the right knee is holding me up. To heck with it, I am changing my tyres this weekend. Slow and steady.........

Don’t come running to us when......oh no....you won’t be.....good luck matey  Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

Please let me know if anything in my post offends you, as I may wish to offend you again......

IanMetro wrote:

Sorry to hear your problem, but are you sure its the gasket.
You do not mention any oil in water (or vice versa).

Try flushing out cooling system, as it may just be sediment after all the years that the car has been in service.

Don't give up until you have tried all the simple things.
Good Luck.

No I haven't quite given up completely, as I said after going out to find it yesterday I sort of thought “billhooks, that’s it, can’t be arsed”. I’ll take a closer look in a week or so when I have cooled down, unlike the car which has already!  Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

Please let me know if anything in my post offends you, as I may wish to offend you again......

Dave,

I am glad to see that you haven't given up.


Remember breaking a head gasket takes a certain type of talent.


I call it "Talent of a misspent youth"


As me how I know.



Remember when you first got your Freel2 it wouldn't start and you fixed it by clearing the codes or something equivalent.

You clearly have the Talents of a misspent youth.

But in this case you were not doing something that might hurt the Freel2, so it unlikely severely broken.

Your Freel2 is counting on you.


The Freel2 is an amazingly safe, reliable vehicle.

With one major flaw - She won't suffer fools.

Dave I've read your posts, that won't be a problem for you.


Keep us updated


Take care

Paul

Boxbrownie wrote:

MotionInc wrote:

^^^TMI........ . My knees are now the issues, especially the right knee (old 3 wheel ATV accident), left knee was injured in a ladder accident. The right knee currently hurts so bad that I forgot about my back issue.

Would have changed to my summer tyres by now but the right knee is holding me up. To heck with it, I am changing my tyres this weekend. Slow and steady.........

Don’t come running to us when......oh no....you won’t be.....good luck matey

I can hop pretty fast on one leg still!!!!

But still probably as useless as a one legged man in an ar_e kicking competition! Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

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^^^Projection is a physiological coping mechanism, just sayin'............

I bought a new deodorant last week, it said remove cap and push up bottom, I can hardly walk now but when I fart the room smells awesome !!  MY2014 SD4 XS
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Better frame of mind yesterday so took a quick look under the hood......topped up the coolant res with about a litre of coolant (less than I’d feared) engine started and ran without misfiring this time, turned off after 30 seconds or so just in case.
Read the fault codes listed below, and suspect it may be more to do with the fans not working correctly.......will check fuses and connector pins later.
After thought.....is there a bleed point for the cooling system of just a top up and check until stable level is achieved?

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^^^ Sounds like positive progress! As a side, my summer tyres are on, slow and steady

Fuse fine....big though at 80 amps!........no way could I get my spade hands in to check the modules connectors so leaving them for after the lockdown and will get the car up to my greasy spanner garage.

I am happy about the low idle air control and speed being low, pretty sure that would just be a result of overheating and struggling to keep going.

Had a new error popped up while testing, the dreaded HDC fault, but am sure that’s just a low battery issue, so the cars on trickle charge now for a few days. Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

Please let me know if anything in my post offends you, as I may wish to offend you again......

Boxbrownie wrote:

After thought.....is there a bleed point for the cooling system of just a top up and check until stable level is achieved?

It could have been a bit longer, definitely not more than 20 minutes though thinking about it, and it was a hot day.....it is a one fan system.

Coolant well washed away (I don’t like the smell it leaves, reminds me of old cars which always overheated).

Not much more I can do for now as we are shielding here, looks like it’s going to be The end of Summer before we get out again to be honest.

LR2 is registered SORN for now. Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

Please let me know if anything in my post offends you, as I may wish to offend you again......

Nice to here you're in a better frame of mind now Dave.

Carry on the good work and keep us informed of you're progress.  Now at the point when I learn something new something old is lost out the other side !
Now retired so it doesn't matter anymore.
Freelander now gone.

Boxbrownie wrote:

LR2 is registered SORN for now.