Discovery question from Defender person

[muddythelandy]

Hello discovery people.

Went to breakers to collect a discovery fuel filler (using it to fit a rear tank to a defender).

It's a plastic L-shaped thing with a breather pipe and bizzarely an earth lead to the plastic, but anyway. I digress.

He couldn't work out how to remove it from the disco, so got an angle grinder out and cut the fuel door off, then cut a square foot of disco side panel out complete with central fuel filler. I looked at him like he was mental, so he got the angle grinedr and cut the metal down to about an inch all round the filler cap and gave me it.

So - how do you undo the filler from the remaining bit of bodywork?

i don't want to break the brittle looking plastic so don't want to force it.

Does it unscrew? Or yank out?

Thanks

 

[defenderdavie]

ffs muddy whit ye doing in here

 

[muddythelandy]

Anyone?

 

[muddythelandy]

Is there no help for this poor Defender owner?

 

[Pikey]

The rubber grommet round the filler neck where it enters the door aperture unscrews/prises off and the filler neck will fall away.
would you like the microcat piccy so you can see it for yerself?

 

[Pikey]

Filler neck assembly

 

[muddythelandy]

Thats the very thing! Does it say anywhere that you should use almost superhuman strengh to pry it off or am I doing it wrong?

 

[Pikey]

Thats the very thing! Does it say anywhere that you should use almost superhuman strengh to pry it off or am I doing it wrong?

Have you tried clamping the metal part in a vice, and then twisting the filler neck I've a feeling it screws in. and the constant tightening of the filler cap has probably locked it in place.

 

[Pikey]

FFS Don't damage it Microcat has got it listed at £114 for a leaded one and £287 for an unleaded one

 

[muddythelandy]

Theres not a lot of metal left that isn't raggy and sharp but I'll keep at it, might just cut thje grommet off now looking at that picture and buy a new un.

SWEET BEJEESUS. That'll be what I'll do surgically gut the grommet off.

Thanks

 

[Pikey]

New Grommet is listed at £13.20 ntc5916

 

[muddythelandy]

(puts stanley away)

 

[muddythelandy]

(reaches for kettle)

There aint nothing rubber that boiling water cant fix

 

[Pikey]

A deeper search of the microcat database has turned this up where you can clearly see there is a locking ring behind the grommet.

 

[muddythelandy]

you should be like a rabbi of microcat, such is the way you can dance from page to page, with scholarly wisdom! Thanks. I'm goin outside now to do battle with it..