Not as bad as first thought.
It appears one of the head gaskets had a "kink" in it and allowed water to seep through underneath it and into one of the rear chambers. Looks like we caught it in time for it to not have caused any damage to the engine.
Still required the engine taking apart though and getting heads pressure checked. Good job though really, because the quality of the last engine rebuid was nothing short of @#$%! Put it this way, the garage must have had shares in a well know automotive sealant company!! There was a lot of "tidying up" to do and removal of excessive gasket sealer in areas where it shouldn't have been used. Feckin' cowboys!
My mech has now done a full cooling system overhaul, and a full gasket replacement job.
Heads are shiny silver again(!), and he's replaced all the coolant hoses that he could find, some whether they needed doing or not. So at least I have some spares now!
He's also replaced all the stupid LandRover hose clips with "proper" screw type hose clamps, just for security and ease of maintenance/repair later down the line.
Hoping he has enough time now to do the ABS 3 amigos fix (well known "Option B" fix), and to fit the EngineSaver low coolant alarm kit. Yes, I know it's a bit late, but better safe than sorry....again!
Hopefully back in the next few days.
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