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QUESTION: My wife is on a trip to her parents currently about 300 miles north. She called and said our 98 Disco overheated just as they were returning home. Temp gage was pegged about 1/2 mile from the house. Turned out the upper radiator hose cracked. Father putting new hose on tomorrow and she is coming home. What I am worried about is any possible damage that may have been caused during overheating or other hidden issues that may have caused it. 116k miles on it- I checked it over before she left didn't see anything but didn't inspect hoses with great detail. Temp has been around 90-95 this week here.. Suggestions?
ANSWER: There is no way to know if you have done permanent damage to the motor other than to drive it and monitor what happens.
There is an article on overheating on my website, at www.robisonservice.com > service > rover > advice.
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QUESTION: Well our Disco made the trip back home on a trailer. Had thermostat change and new upper radiator hose. After 10 min of driving they said temp guage went back up. Brought it home on trailer. Since then I have driven it twice about 10 min each time. Temp reads normal to me. Going to flush radiator tomorrow as precaution. Any suggestions for flushing this or other things that could be an issue? If it runs fine most of the time and only overheats once in a while can only think there is something floating around in there to block it occasionally.
There is a good chance you have an internal failure in the engine, a bad block or head gasket. There is no such thing as "something floating around" to cause a problem. That's just wishful thinking.
If you get on the gas and it overheats that's a sign of internal failure.
Best of luck with it
John Elder Robison
check my car blog at http://robisonservice.blogspot.com
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John Elder Robison
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I own J E Robison Service in Springfield, MA. We are Bosch Car Service for Land Rover, BMW, Mercedes, and other European lines. I can answer most questions about Land Rover service or repair. I'm known as a car enthusiast, machine aficianado, photographer, writer, and speaker. I've been around Land Rovers and British cars most of my life. Visit me at my car business, www.robisonservice.com or my author website, www.johnrobison.com. Check out my autism and writing blog at jerobison.blogspot.com or my photos on www.pbase.com/robisonphoto John Elder Robison
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I have been a Land Rover service manager since Land Rover returned to North America in 1987. My company is a four-star Bosch Car Service facility, known nationwide for Land Rover service, overhaul, customization, and restoration. We're a dealer and service agent for APCO, backer of the Land Rover Assured and Certified dealer service contracts and Easycare independent service contracts.
In addition to Land Rover our company services BMW, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, Rolls_Royce, and Bentley motorcars. We have factory-plus-level service capability for all makes.
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