3.9 RR & Disco AFM "Orientation" Help please

[Hybrid_From_Hell]

On a STANDARD Factory Disco 3.9 V or Serpentine and similarly 3.9 RR I am trying to work out

what the "Orientation" is of the AFM on the Hotwire units

I have this photo :

I think this is a V Belt RR.

Questions are :

• Is this an accurate position of the AFM and Air Filter Unit ?
  
• Are the positionings of these units the same on RR Disco V- belt and Serpentine ?
  

Help !

Nige

[duncmc]

That is a V belt engine in a RRC. It is also a left hand drive model! My right hand drive RRC also has a V belt 3.9 and the AFM looks to be in a very similar place. However mine might have been moved slightly to give a bit more room for the PLG vaporiser. I will post a picture when I get home.

The factory fitted serp engine models have the plastic square air filter don't they? So the AFM could be in a different place, but you would think that the LR engineers would just have designed the box leaving everything else in the same place wouldn't you........oh hang on its LR we are talking about.

[cosecon]

Googling I found:

1995 Range Rover

1993 Range Rover

1995 Discovery

older 3.5 disco

[mickeyw]

As Cosecon has shown, serpentine engines had the square plastic air filter box, whether RRC or Disco.

AFM is the same way around in all instances. AFAIK it's the same model AFM.

[task]

3AM that then changed to the 5AM AFM, the V-belt setup uses a metal "mount" bolted to the inner wing whereas the plastic air-box setup they introduced on serp engines is supported by the airbox.

You can just see the mount and the AFM bolted to it in that photo.

I can take more photos if you like?

[Hybrid_From_Hell]

Yippee Do

The Pics showing the AFM flat top = level is great news, when I looked the only pic I had was "Canted"

which would have made things trickier, I will go with the flat stylee for me ickle project ta muchly

Nige