walace58 Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 Further to my fuel flap actuator saga, now resolved, I have had a tapping vibration sound from the back of the vehicle, which I put down to a pressure relief valve for the fuel tank/ system. I think I may have found the culprit, when accessing the fuel flap actuator, fixed to the access panel on the inner skin of the body is a canister connected to a rubber tube coming up from the fuel tank. It is cone shaped meta/l bodied, mounted so the inlet pipe is at the bottom. The top of the canister has 5-10mm holes around the circumference. Inside this part of the canister is what appears to be a foam disc. Topping the caniater is a rubber lid , quite stiff after all these years so haven't tried to open it as yet,yes I have see below! When I start the car and hold it I can feel it vibrating. On the russian parts list this is not shown and the access panel is square rather than the panel shape in the diagram http://www.numcat.ru/landrover/p/39/49057/ I can't find it in my RAVE workshop manual, although this should cover up to 1995. I wonder if it was fitted to American models? The only thing near this I can find is NTC7567, item 904 on the russian parts list, but from this and other drawings appears to be an in-line vapour separator. Looking for a part number, I found the cover was loose enough and took it off. there is a circular foam disc about 30mm long. It is drying going on brittle. Below is a fibre disc I couldn't remve but when I start the engine there is definitely a valve and it is vibrating /rattling. If I push down lightly on the foam disc after reinserting if stops the rattling. So perhaps I need a bigger bit of foam in it, perhaps the original has shrunk. The only identifying marks on the canister is some straight lines ending in a capital A with a parallel line down the right hand part of the A Walace58 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walace58 Posted February 20, 2013 Author Share Posted February 20, 2013 All, my apologies, I have now realised this is the air inlet filter for the Air suspension compressor. confused that the new shape of the access panel forthe feuel flap actuator is not reflected hroughout the manual Walace58 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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