Ah well, a spell in the Series will remind you how comfy a 'Fender is.
Unsurprisingly, for me at least, the MIL and wife did not expect it, the series fired straight up, didn’t even need a jump and other than the transfer box didn’t need any fluids. So I call that a result having been sat since before son was born in December. Hopefully new oil cooler pipe will arrive in a couple Of days. But I may see if I can get a lift to dartford on Tuesday for work rather than try and take the series around the m25! I’m sure it would do the 300mile round trip. But I am not sure I would make it!
 
Last time i saw an engine bay like that was after changing my oil and filter at work on YFO and when i got home, about ten miles later noticed some wiffs of smoke from under the bonnet. i opened it and found the bay covered in oil because i'd left the filler cap on top of something in the bay and forgotten to put it back on. My next shock was when i went to collect my new filler cap and was told it was something like twelve quid. I thought Pete was taking the mick but he showed me the invoice. Needless to say i haven't done it twice!
 
Give that man a cookie. It was the oil cooler pipe. Despite being new for the rebuild last year one of them had been rubbing on the steering column and had worn through! A new set ordered (at great expense) and I will do more this time to make sure they do not touch anything. Black one, although no longer touching in the photo clearly was at one point.


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You want some of that plastic spiral wrap they uee to protect hydraulic hoses.
 
Unsurprisingly, for me at least, the MIL and wife did not expect it, the series fired straight up, didn’t even need a jump and other than the transfer box didn’t need any fluids. So I call that a result having been sat since before son was born in December. Hopefully new oil cooler pipe will arrive in a couple Of days. But I may see if I can get a lift to dartford on Tuesday for work rather than try and take the series around the m25! I’m sure it would do the 300mile round trip. But I am not sure I would make it!
Use some metal weld putty.
 
is this the piece you have broken??

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Use some metal weld putty.
Think it's the rubber bit that has worn through.
Pirtec crimped new rubber on to the old fittings for me around 15 yrs ago, still good. I wouldn't have used Steve Parker ones or their hose kits either but I did use there downpipe that I've had to weld twice for rot.
 
Think it's the rubber bit that has worn through.
Pirtec crimped new rubber on to the old fittings for me around 15 yrs ago, still good. I wouldn't have used Steve Parker ones or their hose kits either but I did use there downpipe that I've had to weld twice for rot.
Since you bring it up, I wouldn't either. They were a lot less than helpful when the stainless system i bought for a 200tdi SIII wasn't remotely close to fitting. I ended up cutting that and putting a flexible joint in. Supposedly the experts in custom LR exhausts too.
 
You want some of that plastic spiral wrap they uee to protect hydraulic hoses.
I will order some of that. You can see in the engine bay photos whether was a risk of it contacting the inner arch I did put some old radiator hose around it. But didn’t cover the whole length and typically wore through where it wasn’t covered!
 
Think it's the rubber bit that has worn through.
Pirtec crimped new rubber on to the old fittings for me around 15 yrs ago, still good. I wouldn't have used Steve Parker ones or their hose kits either but I did use there downpipe that I've had to weld twice for rot.
It’s indeed the rubber that has worn through. I was going to a mini could get it repaired at the local hydraulic place so I at least ah e a spare for the future.
 
Think it's the rubber bit that has worn through.
Pirtec crimped new rubber on to the old fittings for me around 15 yrs ago, still good. I wouldn't have used Steve Parker ones or their hose kits either but I did use there downpipe that I've had to weld twice for rot.
And yep I have 1 of them as well….
Made so you can use on either pipe

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You want some of that plastic spiral wrap they uee to protect hydraulic hoses.
Or some garden hose. That's what the Disco 2 boys suggest slipping over the fuel lines that go from the fuel tank to the filter and engine bay that sit on top of the fuel tank and wear themselves through.
 
Or some garden hose. That's what the Disco 2 boys suggest slipping over the fuel lines that go from the fuel tank to the filter and engine bay that sit on top of the fuel tank and wear themselves through.
Problem with garden hose is that it can wear the thing you are protecting where it exits the garden hose, especially if used on a curve.
 
I will order some of that. You can see in the engine bay photos whether was a risk of it contacting the inner arch I did put some old radiator hose around it. But didn’t cover the whole length and typically wore through where it wasn’t covered!
The cheap stiuff from ebay etc will do the job, but the better quality gear from jcb/case/pirtek etc will be better, but probably overkill for what you need.
 
Problem with garden hose is that it can wear the thing you are protecting where it exits the garden hose, especially if used on a curve.
I never got as far as replacing the leaking fuel hose on my D2. A guy knocked on the door asking if it was for sale, so i put it through an mot, it passed, so i sold the car and gave him the new pipes to put on himself.
 
why is no one commenting on how clean that steering rack is!
It is only that shiny because it is less than 12 months old after having rebuilt it after an engine fire: LINK It is the later model late 300/td5 steering rack.

is this the piece you have broken??
It may be but I have ordered the overprice steve parker kit as I cannot have the vehicle off the road any longer than necessary and that is what I fitted during the rebuild (at half the current price!). Whereas the series is ok to get me around in the interim it is not really up to (or rather I am not really up to) doing 500-1000miles a week!
 

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