simonpelly

Good luck with the rebuild. Chuck in the odd photo as you go along. It's always interesting to see other peep's projects.

I'd say looking at the banjo, it is very much of the profile similar to the fuel filter. However, the pipes to the fuel filter/pump(s) are usually as a joined pair. As such, if it is a fuel filter pipe, probably been separated?

Just noticed the banjo fitting on the other pipe. I'd be thinking more like the pipe to the filter. I'll take some more pictures later on that too.

I'd be 99.999999% sure the top one is indeed the spill return pipe. Here's some images from our 300 Tdi

Top one is spill return with the fuel pipe cut short. Bottom looks like breather. I'll nip into garage later and take some photos to help confirm.

Perhaps once peeps have their shiny new plates and EGTs installed, we could collect and have a data sharing session? Defender model, engine type, speeds, gears, revs, workload, temps, etc...

Instrument positioning feels like quite a personal choice. For me, the instruments that I look at most often are speed, rev, temp and fuel. These are in the main console. The boost, battery and EGT on the mini MUD console looked at less frequently. Only on long dual carriage way type hills does the EGT really start to show any movement around 500 to 600 Celsius. The battery gauge is useful to me as a indication of alternator working. Boost is useful every now and then to give an indication that the turbo is doing something and waste gate is set appropriately.

Some more images. Hope it helps...

Fitted one last year. Decided to weld the EGT boss at an angle to a blanking plate covering that is normally used for the EGR valve. In this way the EGT probe can get right into the middle of the exhaust gases without having to be bent. IMG_1547.MP4

The beads for balancing sounds interesting. Anyone managed to source these in the UK?

Sounds like decision time - Run without an immobilizer or determine which input to the immobilizer/immobilizer itself is misbehaving? In any case, sounds like significant progress 😉

Interested to see how you made that work. In particular if a re-bracket exercise of some chopping to wheel arches. Any pics would be awesome. Thanks.

Did that involve much cutting of wheel arches, etc...? Interesting to see how you managed to make that work.

Yep. The idea of getting more leg room has not gone away. Some jobs just take years to figure out...

@TSD That appears to be a solution for the 40/60 seats on later Defenders as opposed to our earlier 3 single folding forward seats.