bobed90 Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Hi, my friends discovery has recently started playing up, and as its a landrover they have come to me for advice. Unfortunatly for them im stuck in the dark ages and have never worked on a td5 (i prefer 300tdi's). It is an early model manual transmission. They have told me that it is overheating, using coolant and suffering from power loss. My first thoughts are head gasket failure, but i thought i would post here to see if anyone had any other suggestions. Thanks Jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dooroy Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Sounds like head gasket ; the early Td5's used plastic dowels between head and block and apparently over time the dowels could fail and allow the head to move and cause a leak . Later engines ( 2001 on or so ) had steel dowels and solved this problem . This could be the problem with your friend's Td5 . What year is this one ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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