Meet my 90, and share the adventure.

**cuppabillytea** · 3rd May 2016, 08:52 PM

Fully sick....................Time for your Meds.

**Toxic_Avenger** · 12th May 2016, 06:26 AM

Picked up a diesel filter kit yesterday for the deefer. Going to try and put some reliability back into the common fail diesel!

I raised some questions about diesel filters and flow rates (and found very little tech advice out there) in this thread. I was ultimately trying to ascertain what flow requirements the secondary filter needs to handle, and if the smaller micron flow restriction can cause damage to the lift pump. The sales clerks at Diesel Care believe this is a non issue.

The kit in question is a 2micron secondary filter kit made by diesel care, part number DCS029.

The filter element is 2 micron, a fuel manager 100 series unit. In addition to the nifty plastic bowl to view water and residue that drops out of the filter (no more rusty filters guys), it has a completely superfluous hand primer pump (not needed on the 2.2 tdci). NB The Clarcor box is just packaging... no part number/ brand relates to the actual product.

Mounting bracket- this bolts to the LHS chassis rail, just aft of the fuel cooler.

This is the bash plate... it sits in front of the filter to protect from stone damage, sticks, etc...
Still undecided if I'll mod this to work with my fuel cooler guard, or leave it off (I have Pete Simpson's big full length fuel cooler guard plate), which is ample protection for this area of the vehicle.

Going thru the contents of the kit, everything I should need is there and ready to go... down to the last barb fitting, hose clamp and zip tie.

If all goes to plan, Install will be this weekend. As per the standard of this thread, I'll take plenty of poorly lit, blurry and crappy camera phone pics with my grubby diesel-soaked fingers. Stay tuned!

**cuppabillytea** · 12th May 2016, 07:09 PM

I like that very much Mitch. I also like your Knife One like that would be Perfect for my Work Kit.
Back to the Filter. How Much did it set you back?

**Toxic_Avenger** · 12th May 2016, 07:30 PM

PM sent with the price... very reasonable given the 'complete kit' and plug and play nature of it...

Good spotting - The knife is a spyderco paramilitary 2. Great little folder for everyday tasks. It's a bit big and menacing for an EDC (I've got a raindrop damascus and cocobolo wood Chris Reeve Mnandi that takes that role), but works great for slicing open packages.

**cuppabillytea** · 12th May 2016, 09:32 PM

Crikey!!! The name is longer than the blade. For mine it has to cut through any 30 MM rope ( except wire of course) before it looses its edge.

**Toxic_Avenger** · 12th May 2016, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Crikey!!! The name is longer than the blade. For mine it has to cut through any 30 MM rope ( except wire of course) before it looses its edge.

IIRC you work in a marine environment?
A spyderco Salt would be ideal. Comes with a wicked serrated blade option which would make easy work of the spectra and other fancy cored ropes on a boat. Highly corrosion resistant H-1 steel which holds a good edge to boot.
Customs is a little iffy on the spyderco knives because of the spyder hole, which makes them think twice about their 'single handed opening' rule...

Can usually find them easily on ebay or the knife forums though.

**carlschmid2002** · 12th May 2016, 09:58 PM

i carry a similar spyderco in my bottom pocket of my flying suit at work. It is the only knife we have found that will cut through seat belts and harnesses like butter if you end up in the drink. Great bit of kit.

**Toxic_Avenger** · 12th May 2016, 10:18 PM

There are much fancier knives out there (with some rediculous price tags) but the spyderco is a great value knife for the coin. Good choice Carl!

**Toxic_Avenger** · 14th May 2016, 04:03 PM

I have just finished the install of the secondary fuel filter kit which I showed above. Here's some pics of the process for those interested.

The set-up

The kit required some prep work to the filter- the supplied blanking bungs and barb fittings needed to be installed, and sealed with pipe thread sealant. I opted to do this a few days in advance to give the sealant some time to set and plus it was easier to do it at my clean desk than in the dirt in the car port. Since I'm working with the fuel system on a common fail diesel, I wanted to keep things as clean as possible.

Loctite 567 was the preferred lilbation for the thread sealing.

Blanking plugs installed

Barb Fittings installed.

Tip for young players... the 90 degree barb fitting will need to be installed first, as it will be blocked by the straight fitting otherwise. I worked this out of a 'dry install'.

All done. Let it cure for 36hrs while life got in the way.

**Toxic_Avenger** · 14th May 2016, 04:32 PM

Today went off with a good start, had plenty of time to kill and was keen to do some wrenching.

First step was to remove the fuel cooler guard. This involves lowering the front sway bar and a bit of spanner gymnastics with stupid 15mm sockets. I have an enviable tool collection, but I'm lacking in the 15mm size which has only ever been an issue since owning the landy. Every. freaking. time. I need to do some work, that stupid spanner size is needed in multiples. Curse you land rover.

A treasure trove of dirt awaited me underneath.

I will need to make sure I remove this when doing services from here on in, as mud and dirt seems to pool against the X member and will rust / cause issues over time. I might even consider adding some more 'speed holes' next time to aid in draining of mud etc.

The filter will sit in this location- aft of the fuel filter, and directly above the gearbox x member.

The filter mount and bash plate attaches via the fasteners on this cross member. In the pic below, I've already started removing the nut for attachment. Interestingly, the factory installed one nut on the inboard side of the chassis rail, and one on the outboard side. I put both nuts on the inside for ease of removal.

The filter assembly takes advantage of a joiner that lives within the supply hose that runs to the high pressure pump. The secondary filter gest its feed from this connector's male side fitting, and the female (engine side) fitting taked the secondary filtered diesel to the HP pump. The secondary filter, in a linear sense, fits between this connector.

This fitting is some kind of 'quick release' fuel line connection, but sadly, it only lived up to half it's name... should be '1 hour of ****ing around before release' connector.

What happened for me, was the connector was caked with mud and dirt, and was a royal PITA to remove. I did the usual silicone spray trick to make It all work nice and smooth like, but the real problem was me being a ham fisted numpty and breaking stuff. I initially thought it was one of the horseshoe style connectors, where the retaining clip needs to be fully removed from the connector before it can be slid apart. Do not do this. In my case, the blue plastic clip snapped, and I spent an hour trying to dig it out with a pick, pliers and a barrage of swearing. It was highly effective.

This was all that was left after I got the little bastard hose free:

I believe the connector uses a ring of plastic which needs to be compressed to an oval shape before the fitting can be undone. Unlike the other common styles of connector, there is only 1 'button' on the connector... and there is 2 holes in the bottom of the connector which led me astray to think it was a removable clip. Either way, this simple task took an hour of my time which I will never get back... FML.

This is the bracket installed, awaiting the filter to be fitted to the top mounting holes.

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