I've thought about the coolant line by pass as well. Our temps here very rarely hit below 40. But knowing Rover you probably have to adjust the tire pressure in the left rear tire after doing so to keep it from stalling. Haha

 

Haha I'll try It and let yall know.

I really need help with my radio. There was a nice pioneer radio In the car when I bought it. It has static noise when the engine is running. Any ideas?

 

Paper.

 

either its wired wrong or you need a noise filter in line on the power

 

Noise in car stereo can be it is not grounded properly. Trace your ground and make sure that the ground wire is of same size of your power wire and that the connection is clean. The frame is best ground point but make sure the metal is clean.

 

I ran a new clean wire to power and a new clean wire to ground. Same issue. Anyone had an amp go bad before? I think I can see the amp behind the glove box. Black box with cooling fins on either side?

 

If you're using the factory amps and speakers, you'll probably need ground loop isolators. They were the only thing that reduced the noise for me after replacing the factory radio with an aftermarket one. Once installed between the front and rear pre-outs and harness adaptor, the sound wasn't perfectly noise-free, but acceptable.

 

I have now had 4 Land Rovers. None have had a working radio. I should probably fix that.

 

Iirc if you look there are threads about eliminating the factory amp, off the top of my head you can just remove the amp and run wires from the radio to corresponding speaker wires exiting the amp, i am sure you would lose the subs though

my factory raidio works so i don't screw with it , someday i will fix the tape player belt for my 80/90's mix tapes lol