Series 3 Lightweight - Identifying Electrical Component

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Hi,

A new member here looking some help our suggestions please. I have bought a Series 3 Lightweight that has been SORN and not run for last four years. It has a Daihatsu 2.8 TD in it and 'strange' electrical wiring set-up. It seems to be using a combination of Daihatsu and Series 3 wiring looms.

I am busy trying to understand and document the wiring components and install the missing headlights and LH side lights. Hazard, lighting and wipers are controlled via a "Daihatsu Fourtrak Switch Turn Signal switch combination on the steering wheel" which is grafted onto the Series 3 wiring. I have made some progress - identified the Daihatsu dim dip lamp resistors which I intend to remove. However, I have come across this component zipped tied to the right of an non LR fuse box. It is ringed in blue in the first photo below. The component in the red box is something to do with the glow plugs but that is the work of another day. I think it is the Land Rover glow relay. There is also a Daihatsu/Toyota one in the engine bay but that is the work of another day.

The black plastic box under the rusty component is holds a 15A fuse and more detail is available in the second photo.

The bottom of the rusty component I am trying to identify is has four pins and is shown in photo 3.

Any help or suggestions to what this component is would be gratefully received.

Thank you.
Seamus
 

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Are you King Harold by any chance?:D:D
Any way all I can tell you is a series 3 had none of the items you have pictured. It would have no relays, no socket connectors, no blade fuse's. A military one would have had a convoy lights but that is just a switch.
The item in the red box looks like a solenoid but as lightweights were petrol it would not have had one for glow plugs.
 
Mongrel is a kind word for it. The Daihatsu engine was a popular conversion at one time as the vehicles they came from could be heard rusting on a quiet day.;) Good luck sorting it.
 
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