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| ickle Member Since: 22 Jul 2010 Location: South Vendee Posts: 1822   
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fuel tank breather!
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4th Mar 2017 8:24pm |
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| chri$ Member Since: 27 Mar 2014 Location: Kent Posts: 16  
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OK, cheers. It confused me a bit being on the passenger side. I'll have another dig around and try and find the pipe it was connected to.
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4th Mar 2017 8:37pm |
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| agentmulder Member Since: 16 Apr 2016 Location: Outer Space Posts: 1324 
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It's degraded and fallen on top of the tank, unfortunately it's only a matter of time - good on you for actually finding it!
Near impossible to fix/find in the current state, for a proper fix and mod to a real solution you've got to drop the tank to access to the top of tank and reroute it to the other side. Dirty and time consuming 'project' for not much apparent improvement - that is until you notice the leaking diesel on fill up and dirt in your fuel filter! Swap out or at least check the fill breather at the same time. Lots of discussion in the forums  Solved the bowel problem, working on the consonants... |
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4th Mar 2017 9:19pm |
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| ickle Member Since: 22 Jul 2010 Location: South Vendee Posts: 1822
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The pipes themselves can block leading to all sorts of running (or not) issues, or the rubber pipe connection can perish and fail as yours has and let allsorts of cr#p into the tank.
Good luck Keith |
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4th Mar 2017 9:19pm |
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| ericvv Member Since: 02 Jun 2011 Location: Near the Jet d'Eau Posts: 5816  
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On a 110 you do not need to drop the tank to get good access, that's only so for a 90.
Take to opportunity to replace with Land Rover's last version of this fuel breather pipe, and eventually modify this a bit and then install like I had done in below thread. Still think that is a very good little mod of this breather pipe. Eric http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic22296....p;start=90 You never actually own a Defender. You merely look after it for the next generation. http://youtu.be/yVRlSsJwD0o https://youtu.be/vmPr3oTHndg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GtzTT9Pdl0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqKPz28e6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZ49Jce_n0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvAsz_ilQYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8tMHiX9lSw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxwjPuHIV7I https://vimeo.com/201482507 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSixqL0iyHw |
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4th Mar 2017 9:45pm |
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| agentmulder Member Since: 16 Apr 2016 Location: Outer Space Posts: 1324
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I tried very hard to not fully drop the tank, but I couldn't muster the hand strength required to do the job without my hands getting too big to fit in the area.
Also, as it was so dirty I couldn't see  all of what was going on - if you've done it before it's easy, but for your first time there are steps that you have to nut out for yourself that are much easier with it clean and in front of you.
The logistics of dropping the tank safely and without causing more issues aren't exactly trivial - time consuming at best - so yes, certainly try to avoid it if you can Solved the bowel problem, working on the consonants... |
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4th Mar 2017 9:53pm |
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| chri$ Member Since: 27 Mar 2014 Location: Kent Posts: 16
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Mines a TD5 110, think it might be a different arrangement as the breather pipe is on the opposite side to the filler. I suspect the rubber hose is perished on top of the tank so don't see any other way but to drop it. Not sure it's a job I'll be doing myself TBH.
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4th Mar 2017 10:27pm |
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