tony46

New Member

• Apr 1, 2013

• #1

Well the suspension has never let me down until now, for some reason it has started blowing the fuse. The strange thing I can go weeks with no problem, then a week where the fuse blows ever other day and at £4 a go . As anybody got any ideas please?

 

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xat44

Active Member

• Apr 1, 2013

• #2

mine blew the same fuse once. it was because my pump was full of water.
maybe not the same in your case, but worth a look.

 

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iansoady

Active Member

• Apr 1, 2013

• #3

And especially in this weather the water freezes and no air can get through at all. Happened to mine.

I bought a used engine compartment fusebox for £10 so I had a bunch of spare fuses, relays and fusible links.....

 

tony46

New Member

• Apr 1, 2013

• #4

I will take a look at the pump, the strange thing is Iansoady you hit the nail on the head, the fuse always blew when it had been a cold night. Thanks xat44 & iansoady for your advise.

 

tony46

New Member

• Apr 1, 2013

• #5

I trust this is a straight forward thing to do?

 

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iansoady

Active Member

• Apr 2, 2013

• #6

It's actually the filter behind the LHS light cluster that freezes up so air can't get to the compressor so it just runs & overloads itself. Land Rover cunningly designed it so that water running off the sunroof goes straight onto it.....

Five minutes to get at and a few minutes to squeeze the water out then dry on a radiator. It will work happily without the filter for testing purposes.

 

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xat44

Active Member

• Apr 2, 2013

• #7

unfortunatly for me. the water had got past the filter and into the pump/compressor. the pump can be pulled apart. after drying out it was fine.

 

tony46

New Member

• Apr 7, 2013

• #8

All sorted, thanks Guys

 

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iansoady

Active Member

• Apr 7, 2013

• #9

So what was it?

 

tony46

New Member

• Apr 7, 2013

• #10

Firstly there was no filter (foam) well what was there was in pieces, bought the complete kit £21(ebay), secondly , pipe was full of water which leads to compressor, drained new filter fitted, now works a treat, so fingers crossed no more blown fuses.