Oil cooler gets added to the Land Rover

The Land Rover made a visit to the Sahara in 2009, but the conditions then were quite different. It was February and the climate varied from about 5c in the early morning up to about 30c in the middle of the day. Even with those temperatures we experienced over heating, but this was due to a blocked radiator.

However having developed some sensitivity to overheating and being conscious that we are a single car, we set out to improve the cooling situation. So in our last blog we showed off our new bigger 5 blade fan that we can fit if we need it during the rally.

We also have a shiny new radiator and an auxiliary fan (that we had from the previous Sahara trip). Well what more could we do? An oil cooler of course. Alex was busy this weekend fitting it and making up brackets for it with help from Moss.







In addition to the oil cooler, Alex fitted the complete new front brake system and replaced one of the wheel bearing kits. The wheel bearing kit originally started out as a messy job of replacing the oil seal, but after many hours of trying to remove the oil seal and not succeeding, Alex resorted to the "brute force" technique. Get the hammer out, we're going to bash this thing off! The side effect being the wheel bearings needing to be replace too. Good job we had a spare!

A very productive weekend on the car in the end and it is now completely rally ready!