2003 Range Rover HSE sounds like it ate a cat!
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2003 Range Rover HSE sounds like it ate a cat!
Yesterday I noticed a rattle in the engine compartment of my 2003 big body rover. It proceeded to get worse. Sounded like a cat was stuck in the fan. Opened the hood, nothing obvious. Turned off the AC and tried again, the noise got worse and more like it was chewing up parts. Water is under the car today. Water pump shaft??? Thanks
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Well sounds like you found the culprit. I'm a little surprised by the outcome because your truck is too new with too ow miles to have that catastrophoc of a failure. Usually you will have all kinds of warning signs before it gets to that level. You will usually start hearing a noise, losing fluid, and/or overheating long before it explodes like that. I would look everything over very well and make sure something else isn't going on to have caused that.
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Thanks Chris. While wheelin in the sand dunes 8 months ago I blew off the top radiator hose and lost most of the coolant. Limped it back by borrowing water bottles and some sandy river water. It got warm a few times and I cautiously refilled and bled the puke tank to get home. Had the shop replace the hose and put in a T stat. Are the bearings from the water pump? Perhaps the sandy water? Thanks,
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