I have a friend/coworker who bought this 80 series in March 2011. IH8MUD Forum - Search Results
Now sometime in this rigs life, it has gotten so hot that the front of the valve cover had the paint/powdercoating burned off at the thermostat housing. Someone, not my coworkers, added 2" spacers to the back of the hood. The spacers allow more airflow to keep the rig from overheating.
My coworker was here from Argentina as an intern and wanted a LandCruiser for him and his family to toodly around in. He never had a problem with it. He litterally drove around town. He never put the thing in 4low or engaged the CDL. I think he parked it on a curb once.
He left Oct 1st and headed back south and another coworker bought it from him.
Current Owner is pretty mechanically inclined on a
scale of 10. She changes her own oil, changes her flat tires, checks fluid levels regularly, jump starts vehicles and swaps out a battery when needed.
She noticed the rig was getting harder to start. It has been getting cold here in the mornings so maybe it was a just temp thing. So she would have to jump start it once a week. She was driving down the road the other day and a puff of white smoke came out from under the hood and the temp gauge spiked. She shut it off and let it cool down for 1/2 hour. She added water to over flow and took off driving for home. She had to stop and let it cool down a few more times. The overflow never went down.
So now it will not start at all, dead battery and she asks me to take a look at it. I hear the story and explain to here that she may have blown the motor or at least cracked the head.
So I go and pick it up with my tow rig and trailer. Battery is dead so I winch it on the trailer. I get it to my shed and do some basic diagnostics. Battery is just plain bad. No water in the oil, overflow tank full, radiator empty and find the water pump is so blown that water pours out the weep hole as I'm adding it to the radiator. I fire it up for 30 seconds and do not hear a rod knock. So far, so good.
I strip the 3FE down and replace the waterpump and thermostat and the belts and the hoses. It was missing the AC belt and I found two of the lower hoses had holes in them. I put it all back together and fired it up with the heater on full blast.
The system burps, add more fluid, burps again, add more fluid, etc. I added 3 gallons and started on the 4th and I had old faithful blowing out the radiator cap. It sounded like a steam vent blowing. No big deal, it must still be burping since the thermostat opening and the air purged out of the heating system. Still no rod knock, good.
I shut it down and let it cool off and went to start it an hour later. Fires up and runs rough, idles fast. Smooths out as the operating temp is reached.
I let it cool down agian for about an hour or so. I fire it up and was going to take it for a test drive. I put it in R and it died like you shut the switch off. Now it Cranks but No start.
Any suggestions?
Now sometime in this rigs life, it has gotten so hot that the front of the valve cover had the paint/powdercoating burned off at the thermostat housing. Someone, not my coworkers, added 2" spacers to the back of the hood. The spacers allow more airflow to keep the rig from overheating.
My coworker was here from Argentina as an intern and wanted a LandCruiser for him and his family to toodly around in. He never had a problem with it. He litterally drove around town. He never put the thing in 4low or engaged the CDL. I think he parked it on a curb once.
He left Oct 1st and headed back south and another coworker bought it from him.
Current Owner is pretty mechanically inclined on a
scale of 10. She changes her own oil, changes her flat tires, checks fluid levels regularly, jump starts vehicles and swaps out a battery when needed. She noticed the rig was getting harder to start. It has been getting cold here in the mornings so maybe it was a just temp thing. So she would have to jump start it once a week. She was driving down the road the other day and a puff of white smoke came out from under the hood and the temp gauge spiked. She shut it off and let it cool down for 1/2 hour. She added water to over flow and took off driving for home. She had to stop and let it cool down a few more times. The overflow never went down.
So now it will not start at all, dead battery and she asks me to take a look at it. I hear the story and explain to here that she may have blown the motor or at least cracked the head.
So I go and pick it up with my tow rig and trailer. Battery is dead so I winch it on the trailer. I get it to my shed and do some basic diagnostics. Battery is just plain bad. No water in the oil, overflow tank full, radiator empty and find the water pump is so blown that water pours out the weep hole as I'm adding it to the radiator. I fire it up for 30 seconds and do not hear a rod knock. So far, so good.
I strip the 3FE down and replace the waterpump and thermostat and the belts and the hoses. It was missing the AC belt and I found two of the lower hoses had holes in them. I put it all back together and fired it up with the heater on full blast.
The system burps, add more fluid, burps again, add more fluid, etc. I added 3 gallons and started on the 4th and I had old faithful blowing out the radiator cap. It sounded like a steam vent blowing. No big deal, it must still be burping since the thermostat opening and the air purged out of the heating system. Still no rod knock, good.
I shut it down and let it cool off and went to start it an hour later. Fires up and runs rough, idles fast. Smooths out as the operating temp is reached.
I let it cool down agian for about an hour or so. I fire it up and was going to take it for a test drive. I put it in R and it died like you shut the switch off. Now it Cranks but No start.
Any suggestions?
