Marin,
The first time I drained the coolant, I decided then and there that I would
switch over to the more environmentally friendly coolant. So that is what I
run now. But the REAL travesty in all of this is that the Range Rovers USED
to have a draincock BEFORE they were imported to the US!!! Damn silly.
-Perrone
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lro@Works.Team.Net [mailto:owner-lro@Works.Team.Net]On
> Behalf Of Faure, Marin
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 9:00 PM
> To: 'Land Rover Mail Group'
> Subject: LRO: Changing RR coolant
>
>
> I notice some of you have Range Rovers in addition to
> your Series. One of the really annoying things about
> the Range Rover, at least the US-spec classic version,
> is that there is no radiator drain as there is on a Series.
> The factory service manual instructions for draining the
> radiator are to remove the lower radiator hose. As you
> probably know, it's critical that the Rover V-8 (or any aluminum
> engine) have the correct ratio of anti-freeze, and that it
> be in good condition. If left unchanged for a few years, old
> coolant will actually start to dissolve the block from the
> inside (so I was told by the factory manager at Land Rover's
> Solihull plant in the early '90s). So it's important to change
> the coolant in a Rover V-8 at least once a year if you're
> interested in getting the longest life possible out of the engine.
>
> Pulling off the lower radiator hose makes an amazing mess as
> the coolant splashes all over the place, most of it missing the
> bucket you put under there. After doing this five or six times
> and watching toxic anti-freeze escape down the driveway (it will
> kill almost any animal that licks it up), I started
> siphoning the coolant out with a long length of clear plastic tubing.
> This gets about two gallons out, the capacity of the radiator. It
> doesn't drain the block, but there's not enough in there to worry about.
> The comments on draining a Series gas tank reminded me of this
> technique that works well on the Range Rover radiator. Why they
> didn't include a simple drain on the Range Rover's radiator is beyond
> me. You wouldn't think it would increase the cost of the thing
> THAT much.
> ___________________________
> C. Marin Faure
> (original owner)
> 1973 Land Rover Series III-88
> 1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
> Seattle
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