Pajero Owners Club of South Africa

Hi i am a newbie to this site my pajero is 15 years old has recently given trouble with overheating i replaced the thermostat that solved the problem but it has now started overheating with aircon on and if you are in 4th gear revs about 3000 climbing hill if you go to 5th it stays cool worried it may be viscous fan how do you test it any ideas

Hi. I had similar problems on my 3.0 SWB gen2. Did everything even changed from 2- to 3-core radiator but still overheating. Could not get a new part in Bloemfontein in time for April holiday. I then took the viscous coupling apart and clean the oil out. I took some binding wire and put it in a circle all around the outside of the disc. Clamped it together thereby changing it to a solid connection. Due to the even thickness of the wire there were no problems with out of balancing. It worked perfect and I enjoyed my holiday. I could not see any difference in fuel consumption and temp needle never above 50%. Since then did 11000km like that but engine now removed for a Lexus conversion.

Thanks for that i have a spare viscous fan will put it in and see thanks a lot
Mike