We’ve written about hundreds of modded 4x4s and special builds down the years. And of all the teething problems people tell us they had with them, one of the most common has got to be that the cooling system didn’t work.
Exhaust heat shields aren’t exactly the stuff of off-road legend. But when your engine’s giving it everything while you crawl forward at half a mile an hour on the end of a winch cable, keeping on top of the temperature under the bonnet is definitely the stuff of reality.