Did you ever find a solution for this? I’m looking to do something similar but can’t find any way of doing it

That’s what I did but no idea if it’s the right way. It seemed a lot more effort to take the back plate of the housing off as well to rivnut direct to the chassis as there were two more bolts holding it on that definitely would have snapped and needed drilling. When I attached the fuel filter...

I finally got a chance to attempt it yesterday.. as ever it took far longer than I thought it would! I basically had to drill everything out, starting small then increasing in drill bit size until I could get two new rivnuts in. I then used a combination of a cheap rivnut insert tool and a DIY...

Really appreciating the replies. I’m fairly new to this but plan is to grind what’s left of the bolt/washer down flush to the back of the housing, tap the stud and, starting small, drill the centre with a left handed drill bit. I might tentatively try the bolt extractors with copious amounts of...

Thanks for this. I’m not keen to end up with a snapped extractor stuck in there so will opt to drill them out instead. I’ve got m8 x35mm fs108357 as replacements so pretty sure it is m8. Just need to buy a thread tap now as don’t currently own one!

Thank you! I worked out that it was a broken fuel filter assembly (had totally sheared off the bolts) so hopefully that will fix it when I put the new one in

Hi everyone, I’m new here. Bought my first Defender just before Christmas and have been on this (and other!) forums pretty much every day since. I live SW London / Surrey and definitely appreciate the advice of everyone on here. My first post after this one will be about how to fix a fuel leak 😂