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angello

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I'm early into the rebuild of an S2a onto a new chassis, into which I'm fitting a late S3 diesel engine.... I'm trying to route the fuel lines and mount the sedimenter, which I think should be fitted under the drivers floor board.....

But what does it fit to?

The parts manual shows a sort of bracket... but it could be a splash shield.... It's also no longer available...

If anyone has a photo of a standard sedimenter fitted to an S3 I'd be grateful to see it so I can see what the mounting looks like and where it mounts. I can replicate the bracket thing if I have to, but I need to know what it looks like and what it does first.....
 
Never seen a sedimenter under the floor on a series 2a/3. My 2a has the sediment bowl type lift pump and 3 has a fuel filter on the bulkhead that has sedimenter bowl.
 
I think Suffix K onwards had the sedimenter under the floor, or that's what it looks like from the parts manual. You're right that the earlier versions had a glass bowl fuel pump and a double filter / sedimenter arrangement on the bulkhead.... but I think it was amended for the later cars to have the sedimenter in line before the fuel pump and no glass bowl on the fuel pump. My pump doesn't have the glass bowl and I have the late Series / Defender type all aluminium sedimenter., like this:-

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The 'bracket' is made of strong stuff and offers a lot of protection against stray branches etc pushing up from below.....

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Aha! That's perfect! Thank you so much - that's exactly what I was looking for. I now understand exactly how it mounts and how it protects the sedimenter, which wasn't clear from the parts diagram.
Many thanks - that's a GREAT help :)
 
Never seen that fitted before...looks cobbled together...a sedimentor looks nothing like that that is a filter housing...on the 88 S2 I'm restoring the sedimenter is part of the lift pump and on my 101 is after the electric pump before the filter both are glass with an easy release to clean out any water...
 
Shippers said:
Never seen that fitted before...looks cobbled together...a sedimentor looks nothing like that that is a filter housing...on the 88 S2 I'm restoring the sedimenter is part of the lift pump and on my 101 is after the electric pump before the filter both are glass with an easy release to clean out any water...
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It is a sedimentor, 200 tdi disco had them fitted over the rear axle, think 110 were the same, not sure on the 90 models.
Inside there is a disc widget that lets crap go to the bottom section whilst fuel flows across the top bit.

There are also a few variations on the theme, ie filter only, filter and sedi bowl, taller filters, filters with drains.
 
lynall said:
It is a sedimentor, 200 tdi disco had them fitted over the rear axle, think 110 were the same, not sure on the 90 models.
Inside there is a disc widget that lets crap go to the bottom section whilst fuel flows across the top bit.

There are also a few variations on the theme, ie filter only, filter and sedi bowl, taller filters, filters with drains.
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Op says 2A/3 so when I said cobbled together it is if from a Disco or Defender/90...my S3 certainly did not have one of those under the floor...
 
Shippers said:
Op says 2A/3 so when I said cobbled together it is if from a Disco or Defender/90...my S3 certainly did not have one of those under the floor...
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Have to assume as it has the factory bracket then it is not cobbled together as you put it.

just because you have not seen one before does not mean it does not exist, pretty much every day I learn something new on this forum alone.

I remember first time I saw a small metal fuel filter in the same location as the ops sedimentor but on a early 90, again not seen one of them before.
 
It absolutely is factory and not cobbled together! These are even shown in the parts manual and attributed to vehicles post Suffix-K. The desimenter is designed to take the bigger lumps of crap and water out of the fuel before it gets to the fuel pump, which doesn't have a glass bowl in this application.... and under the floor at the front is the correct location for vehicles with fuel tanks under the seat. It was the mounting bracket I couldn't make out exactly from the parts manual - I could see a rough shape of half of it, but the pictures supplied above are brilliant. Whether I can actually find one remains to be seen.... looks pretty unlikely at the moment....
 
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