Is yours Spanish? perhaps Spanish SJs aren't?

My SJ is Spanish and has a negative earth.

Seems like it could be quite tough, don't think my SJ would survive, at least there's nearly a year to prepare.

Yep, all seems fine now, I'll take it for a good drive on the weekend to see if it's still overheating. But I don't think a new water pump is needed.

is the bottom hose, metal part, touching the alternator pulley? The alternator pully was hitting the clip on the metal part of the bottom hose, I just bent it round out of the way. The water pump seems fine, it turns easy enough, I ran the engine with the cap off and there seems plenty of flow. hop...

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That's just like the view from my office window, not allowed to drive round the site in my SJ though

I can't loosen the belt to turn the pump, but the pipe that split is from the inlet manifold to the pump, do I'm prity sure that that's the problem. Anyway here's the video of the sound.

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It's done about 250 miles on the new head gasket, and about 5 on the new rad.
I'll have a look at the water pump tonight.

the rad was replaced because it had filled with sludge when the head went. and yes i had the head skimmed. I'll get a mate to do a compression check and try to get a video tonight.

The problem started on Friday, this was the first proper run after fitting the new radiator. After about 4 miles the water emptied over the road. Once cooled I re-filled with water and took the SJ home. When I stopped the was a big back fire and steam come pouring out from under the bonnet. I traced...

We've got a new program at work and while I was playing with it I found this in the Google 3D warehouse