L. R. series 2 fuel tank breather.

[Larry Dickman]

This was originally posted in the Land Rover forum but I don't think there's much traffic in there, hopefully there may be someone here who has the older under-seat fuel tank set up.

One of my Land Rovers is a 1960 series 2 lwb which I've owned for about 6 years, on removing the under seat fuel tank last week to replace an outrigger I realised, quite frighteningly, that the fuel tank breather pipe ends behind the drivers seat. I'd seen the pipe before but assumed it exited at the filler spout/neck somewhere but examining that area there is no where for it to go. Maybe the filler neck has been changed at some point with one from a later model, but I have no way of knowing.

I can't believe it should exit behind the seat, there is a 90 degree bend fitting on the end of the pipe that looks as though it should go somewhere, but where? If anyone knows where it should go I'd be grateful for any help.

[Bill Door]

On the assumption you have an exterior filler (i.e. you don't have a military tank where you have to remove the seatbase to fill up), then yes, there should be a pipe that runs alongside the filler pipe from the back of the tank to the top of the filler neck.

[Larry Dickman]

Thanks Bill, that's confirmed what I was guessing so I think the filler neck must be a later one. While I've got the tank out I'll look at the best way of attaching the breather to the filler neck I've got.

Edited by Larry Dickman on Sunday 13th February 23:33

[HellDiver]

Perfect excuse to fit a snorkel, and run the fuel tank breather to the top of that.

[Larry Dickman]

^^ I like the way you think.