Thread: Defender Long Ranger fuel tank

Originally Posted by landy

And that's a good point! I'm not aware that the pickup is modified to the bottom of the tank. So although the tank sits lower and holds more fuel, the last 20 litreis is probably useless. Except that it's a great place to hold the water and crap that gets in your tank.

The pick up point on an LRA TANK is a small "pool area" that holds fuel even with the vehicle on a bit of an angle.

I have a 150 litre LRA tank in my 300Tdi 110 and I normally refill 135 litres, but have refilled 147 litres.

By using most of the tank of fuel before refilling, I reduce the risk of fuel stagnation.

When I bought the car (with the tank already fitted), the gauge read full to zero from full to half a tank. I removed the sender float and bent the wire, so now it reads full till it's almost half way, then gives me a linear decline to empty. The needle starts to move at between 600-700km and if I refill before 1,300km, I know I still have some reserve capacity.

A mate with the same tank on a lightly loaded 300Tdi D1 who wouldn't drive at over 92kph found his warning light came on at about 1,760km. He filled up in Alice Springs and the light came on a few days later in Litchfield NP - 7.6 litres per 100km.

I think the LRA tank in the Defender we just bought is 110 litres, but I could be wrong as the dealer couldn't tell me. I filled it up when the needle was on one-quarter and it took 88 litres, so I'm guessing 110.
Since filling it up, it has done about 900 kms and the needle is sitting on one-quarter, so I expect to get over 1000 kms. The needle stayed on full for 450 kms before it started moving.
The Puma 2.4 seems happy to idle along at 100 km/h in sixth when it is doing 2000 revs. Below 2000 revs it starts to struggle and I have to change down.
So, I'm pretty happy with it.