:( thought it was end of feb. Bit of a wait then. I really enjoyed the last one. Any other events going on? or just Whaddon and the swear word that is Devils Pit?

anyone know when the next roundhill woods day is? Who's planning to go?

I remember doing that just after buying mine and promising the wife i'd leave it alone. I then ordered a light bar, 6 spots, cb radio, full set of discs and pads, two service kits, belt kit, speedo cable, hi/lo HID kit, farm jack, tow straps, 4 x 33x13.5" maxxis mudzillas....you get the idea :p

i've been very deep in it :eek: thankfully I'd bodged it enough till it was water tight i guess. If I hadn't of taken that foam ring off one end and the metal cap off the other end of the filter, the cap wouldnt go on so I modified with a hammer, drill and chisel until it did. :banplease: As...

The car is an L reg so not sure if has had a late 200tdi air box fitted or if L reg was late 200tdi but having had a look online, the one i ordered was an early 200tdi air filter whereas the late one has that lid as part of it. The defender one has some sort of plastic sleeve on it.

I must of meant incompetent mechanic earlier :o:p i'll get the correct one ordered this time just to make sure its seals properly and is the right fit. No point in having a snorkel if it lets any water in!

I could be wrong but i think i've sussed it. I think the air box is correct and it is 200tdi (defender or disco not sure it makes a difference) and the snorkel is 300tdi hence, the extra hole in the inner wing. The filter on the other hand should have come with the "lid" like this...

i think it is the air filter itself and I mullered it fitting it when it probably was just the wrong filter :o

I may have butchered it now to make it fit and the old one is the same :o Air box looks like this but this type comes up whether you good 200tdi or 300tdi air intake -...

From some googling it seems to match a 200tdi discovery & defender air box as its not rounded like the 300tdi one. I just can't understand why it won't fit a standard filter in :confused:

I've got nine cars bud including a twin turbo rx7 and a Nissan skyline. That alone has forced me to become a fairly competent mechanic! I guess land rovers have been making mechanics out of ordinary men for years! I do buy and sell cars and I checked mine over carefully, got under it etc...

just a touch. I appreciate the thought though. :) I was at the roundhill woods pay & play at the weekend with loads of other land rover guys but didn't ask anyone about it. I'll have to ask some of the guys at the next one if they can identify that air box and if they can take it for a drive...

Dunstable, bedfordshire mate.

thanks to your advice bud. :tea:

this is a random rubbish picture I've found of the setup on my engine taken before the "fix" tonight. From the outside, it is a "safari snorkel" and looks like a proper discovery one. Inside the engine bay, it sits further back and the previous owner has cut a hole in the further back in the...

i think that is about right to be honest. I may be able to improve power by fettling with the pump etc. but in all honestly, it's much better than it was and I'm not really in pursuit of power. I'd rather it just be running how it should. It's never going to be a fast car.

I don't know if the diff ratios have been changed at all but i changed out the transfer box to another stock 200tdi transfer last month and it drives the same. I'm not experienced enough with these but I've heard of people changing ratios etc. No idea if anything like that has been done on...

Mine is currently covered in mud and its dark so it's hard to see if there is any black smoke still but it certainly revs higher without too much problem. I tried it without the air box attached for comparison and it seemed to be the same now that I've fixed the restriction. The boost from the...

right, I'm not sure if it's 100% but it's certainly better. Whilst I'd previously changed the filter (with great difficulty). I hadn't removed the join between the flat plastic piece and the inlet to the snorkel air box. This time I removed the whole lot and realised that where I have what I...

hopefully. Appreciate you input bud. I've been racking my brain and the internet without success and this sounds like it fits.