In your pic the pipe was circled in red. the pipe that had a hole in came from like a tee off which I circled in GREEN and highlighted and kind of shown the direction it took under the other pipes. There was a second pipe coming sat right next to the other end of the pipe that I changed they...

the long one, about half a meter or so

Gents I changed the vacuum pipe, which indeed did have a split in it about 1cm long. Still get black smoke at high revs. what should I try next?

thats great. ill nip down and buy the oil today

Is that an Asda brand oil, and is that ok, I was under the impression oil had to be the best quality. and also could anyone send me a link for one of the updated Crank case filters please.

Thanks Happy Dragon

Thanks Mustang :)

I'm also planning on doing a service on my TD4 should I use synthetic or semi synthetic oil? and is Shell Helix HX7 10w 40 synthetic a good brand to use?

are these Crank case filter upgrades advisable or should I stick with the original foam stuff?

Defender Pilot, Thank you again. Just ordered from the link you sent, wont get it till Tuesday but hey east its ordered. true gent

HI again Defender Pilot. is the pipe only for air. I was looking on ebay and the ones I found said NOT to be used for fuel, oil, acid, solvents or corrosive's?

Found a split in a vacuum hose. followed it from the vacuum pump all the way to the other end and it there just before the other end that there is a split. bit difficult to get your hands where it is. nothing spare on it to trim back and looks well past its day. Called euro car parts to get 4mm...

yeah that's an easy part to replace. pop of the air filter, move the loom out the way, undo the Crank case, pull out the old sponge filter and replace with the mod part etc. that's one of the things I'm hoping to tackle with Rob when we get to link up.

Hi Grey Beard. is that the Crank Case filter?

Thanks for the advice. When your free drop me a text and ill give you a call to arrange to pop over, maybe you can sort the issues with my motor or point me in the right direction.

Ah yes. new to this. Well I guess you have mine now. if you text me yours Ill give you a bell.

Cool Rob. here's my mobile number. Dean

Hi Rob. I'm in Wapping or Bermondsey. my motor drives so can travel with it.

HI thanks for your help. I spent around 30 mins in the rain tying to find a hole in a pipe, wasn't very successful, there are a shed load of pipes and doesn't look exactly the same as the diagram above. I need a land rover enthusiast or inexpensive mechanic not to far from London or within that...