Rover P6 2000TC

[N Dentressangle]

I think it'll be OK with a good clean. It was running fine with all this shit in the tank, believe it or not!

Of course it also has the Land Rover glass bowl sediment filter, which gets rid of anything which makes it past the gauze at the bottom of the tank.

[SiC]

I need to resist

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176812919304

 

[High Jetter]

One for @HMC? 😀

[ETCHY]

7 hours ago, SiC said:

I need to resist

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176812919304

 

An auto with ET headrests, 3500S wheel trims & fitment for a boot mounted spare. Real '70s colour too & a Webasto roof.

Hmm nice

[Matty]

8 hours ago, SiC said:

I need to resist

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176812919304

 

Resistance being well known to be futile and all that 😆

[N Dentressangle]

That does look rather nice.

[Zelandeth]

The new senders are apparently horrifically inaccurate and laughably unreliable as well.  

While you've got it out check and make sure the fuel return fitting isn't blocked - mine is and it's required some inventive messing about until such point as I can bring myself to pull the tank.

Edited Thursday at 19:03 by Zelandeth
Correcting autocorrect (again)

[N Dentressangle]

50 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

The new senders are apparently horrifically inaccurate and laughably unreliable as well.  

While you've got it out check and make sure the fuel return fitting isn't blocked - mine is and it's required some inventive messing about until such point as I can bring myself to pull the tank.

Fuel return fitting?

There are two pipes from the bottom of the tank: main and reserve pickups. Do you mean the breather pipe that comes off next to the filler neck?

[Zelandeth]

2 minutes ago, N Dentressangle said:

Fuel return fitting?

There are two pipes from the bottom of the tank: main and reserve pickups. Do you mean the breather pipe that comes off next to the filler neck?

Ah, might just be a 3500 thing then.

[N Dentressangle]

19 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Ah, might just be a 3500 thing then.

Maybe. The breather feels clear, but will get a blast with the air line before the tank goes back in.

[Zelandeth]

Yep, internet confirms that the four cylinder cars just have the main and reserve.  The V8 also has a return fitting (which has a tiny orifice in which essentially works as a very crude fuel pressure regulator), presumably to try to keep fuel vaporisation issues at bay.

Of course dealing with this being clogged would be far less of a pain if the pickup wasn't attached to the bottom of the tank.  There are a lot of things on the P6 which I look at and think "That was really smart."  Putting the bloody pickup and sender on the bottom of the tank though, that is NOT one of those details!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

7 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

The V8 also has a return fitting (which has a tiny orifice in which essentially works as a very crude fuel pressure regulator), presumably to try to keep fuel vaporisation issues at bay.

The return line on the V8s is very narrow as you say, and invariably blocked. So you have to clear it to prevent vapour locking. It will still vapour lock but you gotta do it. 

[N Dentressangle]

13 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Yep, internet confirms that the four cylinder cars just have the main and reserve.  The V8 also has a return fitting (which has a tiny orifice in which essentially works as a very crude fuel pressure regulator), presumably to try to keep fuel vaporisation issues at bay.

Of course dealing with this being clogged would be far less of a pain if the pickup wasn't attached to the bottom of the tank.  There are a lot of things on the P6 which I look at and think "That was really smart."  Putting the bloody pickup and sender on the bottom of the tank though, that is NOT one of those details!

Totally. Seems very foolish to me. And quite inexplicable - why add another possible fault and leak source if you don't have to?

[High Jetter]

On 30/01/2025 at 21:46, Zelandeth said:

Yep, internet confirms that the four cylinder cars just have the main and reserve.  The V8 also has a return fitting (which has a tiny orifice in which essentially works as a very crude fuel pressure regulator), presumably to try to keep fuel vaporisation issues at bay.

Of course dealing with this being clogged would be far less of a pain if the pickup wasn't attached to the bottom of the tank.  There are a lot of things on the P6 which I look at and think "That was really smart."  Putting the bloody pickup and sender on the bottom of the tank though, that is NOT one of those details!

I haz parts catalogue that I could investigate