The military oil cooler is now fully operational. Not cheap or easy, as all the pipework to match a SIII chassis and cooler to a 12J/19J had to be made up specially, but it worked a treat.The oil stat and feed line were installed yesterday as per the preceding post. Today, I fitted the return […]
Oil Cooler/Fuel Piping
I didn’t get any paint stripping done today due to the weather, but I did get some fuel and oil lines made up. I now have all the fuel feed lines (from each tank to the 2 taps, the inter-tap line, and the tap-lift pump line). I now just need to make up the return […]
Intake Duct Routing/Snorkel
I had the complete left wing (with its original outer still fitted) on the vehicle today in order to accurately set the required position for the air cleaner and to play around with a few snorkel ducting routes. I had contemplated several air cleaner and snorkel options, including fitting a 300Tdi unit on the rhs […]
Front Wings – Stripping
The right wing has had its top, front and inner stripped, and the left wing is mostly done (just half an hour’s work tomorrow to finish cleaning it up). The outers are being replaced with 90/110 wings that I collected today, which are thicker than Defender skins and will allow the use of the snorkel […]
Wings/Fuel Filter
Right. Got bored and started feeling guilty about having an easy day, so I finished off the last few nuts and bolts securing the wings and fitted the new fuel filter (still need to make up that other line and fit it where the redundant switch is standing in as a blanking plug to keep […]
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