Thread: Help with coolant hoses TD5

However, my car seems to be different to the hoses and to Rave. On mine, the heater exp tank return hose is not a single hose. It is 3 hoses that meet at a T piece. Pictures below. A bit hard to see but it is at the bottom.

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Now, this hose also goes direct to the heater pipe and not the fuel cooler as per Rave diagram. I have a Mac at home, so I have Rave on my PC at work. But I thought I printed the entire cooling section. So I think I am looking at the right one.

Rave has a shorter heater pipe going to fuel cooler, then from cooler to the heater expansion tank return hose. Yet mine by passes the fuel cooler altogether and goes straight from the heater to the expansion tank.

On my car the fuel cooler has a hose going from the top of the cooler, into another T piece where the bottom hose would otherwise meet the thermostat. Pictures are below.

So instead of the elbow shaped bottom hose, I have a T piece and two short hoses, and then the one coming from the fuel cooler.

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So have I been given the wrong hoses? I bought them from LR place here in perth so easy enough to change.

Pictures of the hose coming from the top of the fuel cooler.

this has another piece with what I think is a breather screw.
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My top hose was rubbing on my AC compressor and it had a slight weep on outlet housing.

Not sure if this corrosion was the cause or the effect of the leak. But either way, it is a PIA, as I didn't buy one of those. So I wont be able to drive it until I get that part.

Pictuer is after I scraped off most of the white stuff. It had such a build up it was above the barbed end. It has all pitted so I'm going to have to replace it.

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Post (VIN: 3A828206) have updated fuel cooler
Diagram does not exist on any rave...
Found this on net



No complete kit seems to be avaliable,
order hoses separately

Regards

cheers mate.

that is my hose diagram.

So are those hoses made by LR?

Lower Radiator Hose Land Rover Discovery 2 Td5

LR hoses

thanks mate.

That was one website I didn't check. I couldn't find them anywhere else.

I'll check if Rovacraft have them, as I'm going to have to take the other hose back.

The corroded housing means I'm heading back there anyway.

thanks again.