I have been working on fixing the valley cover gasket on my 91 3.9 rangie.
I pulled it all out no worries and got the new one fitted but must have stuffed it up - I put it all back together and it looks like I have a leak somewhere - I am getting a coolant pooling on the valley cover and she is taking water into the sump :(
I have pulled the intake manifold off again and made sure I squared it all up - still got the same issue.
I am over it for the moment but I will have a look at it again in a few days, Any ideas ?
Thanks
Tom
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Valley gasket
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Valley gasket
"It was just an ordinary day, and you saw them. There were guys in their Porsches, "Look at me in my Porsche, ha ha!" and they were overtaken by a van. Driven by a girl!"
ok .... no answers hey ... bugger
Just a quick question, the 3.9 EFi gasket is a single tin/metal piece isn't it,
I am off to buy another soon and just want to make sure they didn't supply me with the wrong one, it lined up ok and it looks the same as the old one ...
just thought I would ask.
Cheers
Tom
Just a quick question, the 3.9 EFi gasket is a single tin/metal piece isn't it,
I am off to buy another soon and just want to make sure they didn't supply me with the wrong one, it lined up ok and it looks the same as the old one ...
just thought I would ask.
Cheers
Tom
"It was just an ordinary day, and you saw them. There were guys in their Porsches, "Look at me in my Porsche, ha ha!" and they were overtaken by a van. Driven by a girl!"
the one I was sold was metal and the one that came off was metal.
Then I just read a post elsewhere about someone suggesting using the a different one but failed to elaborate.
I am going to buy another new gasket and try and refit tomorrow. The one I had seemed to line up perfectly but I still had a collant leak into the cylinder and or sump somewhere. Getting coolant in oil and getting coolant pooling on valley cover.
I have been using hylomar (sp?) to seal it
Tom
Then I just read a post elsewhere about someone suggesting using the a different one but failed to elaborate.
I am going to buy another new gasket and try and refit tomorrow. The one I had seemed to line up perfectly but I still had a collant leak into the cylinder and or sump somewhere. Getting coolant in oil and getting coolant pooling on valley cover.
I have been using hylomar (sp?) to seal it
Tom
Last edited by RaginRover on Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.
"It was just an ordinary day, and you saw them. There were guys in their Porsches, "Look at me in my Porsche, ha ha!" and they were overtaken by a van. Driven by a girl!"
Ahhhhhhh that could be the problem - I just read the "land rover" workshop manual that said just what you had mentioned. Damn you Haynes, damn you again !!SteveC wrote:Hi
I had the same problem.
The water was leaking through the hold down bolt threads.
Used a thread sealant & it fixed the problem
Regards
Steve
Thanks - I have a new gasket and a day to work on it tomorrow
Tom
"It was just an ordinary day, and you saw them. There were guys in their Porsches, "Look at me in my Porsche, ha ha!" and they were overtaken by a van. Driven by a girl!"
ok - well I have stopped it leaking by removing the inlet manifold bolts one at at time, putting loctite thread sealer on them and putting them back in and torquing them up - seems to have solved the water leak and the water in the sump.
I still have a couple of outstanding problems which are pretty obviously electical.
1. Car is massively overfueling - got plumes of black smoke at idle
2. Air con clutch is permenently kicked in - only goes off when you disconned the wire or pull the fuse.
The injector wiring loom was absolutley toast on the passanger side, baked by the manifold - I taped it up carefully but now looking at the overfueling problem not carefully enough - I think I might have a short between one of the injectors and the cooland temp sensor.
Air con clutch .... WTF ? that wire runs all the way around the front of the engine bay farked if I know have I have done that - will have to trace it I suppose see if it is getting a signal before it enters the engine bay and work from there .... I am resorting to pulling the fuse in the short term.
Thanks guys - any advice would be great but it looks like I am well on the way to having it fixed.
Cheers
Tom
I still have a couple of outstanding problems which are pretty obviously electical.
1. Car is massively overfueling - got plumes of black smoke at idle
2. Air con clutch is permenently kicked in - only goes off when you disconned the wire or pull the fuse.
The injector wiring loom was absolutley toast on the passanger side, baked by the manifold - I taped it up carefully but now looking at the overfueling problem not carefully enough - I think I might have a short between one of the injectors and the cooland temp sensor.
Air con clutch .... WTF ? that wire runs all the way around the front of the engine bay farked if I know have I have done that - will have to trace it I suppose see if it is getting a signal before it enters the engine bay and work from there .... I am resorting to pulling the fuse in the short term.
Thanks guys - any advice would be great but it looks like I am well on the way to having it fixed.
Cheers
Tom
"It was just an ordinary day, and you saw them. There were guys in their Porsches, "Look at me in my Porsche, ha ha!" and they were overtaken by a van. Driven by a girl!"
460cixy wrote:good luck mate
Sorted it
Was a silly mistake that is expensive in the end ..... blown ecu
I earthed out some of the sensors when I was stuffing about with the loom where it had been baked and all the wiring insulation had gone hard, cracked and fallen off. I have just got 10 injector plug ends now and I am going to remake that entire section both sides.
I swapped in a mates ECU and she was purring .... now I just have to get brand new secondhand ecu.
Silly mistake - I was sure I had the ecu unplugged when I was working on that but obviously not
Thanks all
Tom
"It was just an ordinary day, and you saw them. There were guys in their Porsches, "Look at me in my Porsche, ha ha!" and they were overtaken by a van. Driven by a girl!"
Yep - it is not the worst outcome, at least it is an easy replacment and I don't have to full that farking manifold off again !!!460cixy wrote:oh well least it was not hard to track down i hate electrical work
Tom
"It was just an ordinary day, and you saw them. There were guys in their Porsches, "Look at me in my Porsche, ha ha!" and they were overtaken by a van. Driven by a girl!"
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