Freelander 1 1.8 Petrol Fuel Pump question 1998 R reg

I was looking at fuel pumps a how to change etc. I think mine is not well... Any way took the inspection plate off to take a look . What surprised me was that even thought the pump has two of the fuel pipe connectors only one of them had a pipe connected and the other was blanked off. Everything i have seen online shows two pipes to the pump.. Was something different on very early Freelanders?

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I've not had cause to look yet, but was surprised to see that the injector fuel rail does not appear to have a fuel return line? It left the factory like this, and I suspect that the second pipe you have noticed blanked off is a redundant fuel return?

Hopefully someone who knows will be here shortly!

No return on the Freelander. However the pump housing is used on a few vehicles, some of which have a return

If the pump is more than 60K miles old, the filter will be clogged and the pump will be working overtime, just to pass the fuel through the filter.