darland

Active Member

• May 18, 2018

• #1

Hello
1990 200tdi 90 defender
Found bits of this while poking around in the inner wing area near washer bottle / heater box. Feels like perished cork of approx 15 mm thickness. I'm guessing it's it's some sort of gasket but where from please?
50p coin for scale.

 

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Flossie

Well-Known Member

• May 18, 2018

• #2

Heater box to bulkhead gasket or air intake to heater box gasket is my guess.

 

flat

Well-Known Member

• May 18, 2018

• #3

its air intake to heater gasket, originally it was round in shape

 

darland

Active Member

• May 18, 2018

• #4

Thanks both. Could this be why the cabin gets a bit "fumey"? Is it straight forward to replace by a keen amateur armed with a Haynes manual?

 

Oldseadog

Well-Known Member

• May 18, 2018

• #5

It's a wing-wam fert ducks ter perk on!
Obvus innit!!

 

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Litch

Well-Known Member

• May 19, 2018

• #6

"Could this be why the cabin gets a bit "fumey"?"

Yes, instead of drawing in air from the wing top vent it is instead drawing it in from under the bonnet area.

Dead easy fix.
Remove wing top grill, drop intake duct to and remove what remains of the old foam seal. Clean up the lip on the heater-box and stick on the new foam seal. Put the duct back into place and attach the grill.
Simples!

 

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Litch

Well-Known Member

• May 19, 2018

• #7

Sorry, forgot to add.
Part number is MRC8378, comes as a straight strip of foam with adhesive on one side.

 

darland

Active Member

• May 19, 2018

• #8

Litch said:

Sorry, forgot to add.
Part number is MRC8378, comes as a straight strip of foam with adhesive on one side.

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Many thanks. Much appreciated!

 

mojo247

Active Member

• May 21, 2018

• #9

what sort of fumes? if it's not exhaust but water vapour then it could be your heater matrix could be shot?

have you had to keep topping the water up?

 

darland

Active Member

• May 21, 2018

• #10

Exhaust. No water loss