Another brilliant video. I love listening to you verbally thinking 💭 tidy looking defender though. Cheers from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Hi mike like always excellent teaching I remember in my younger years to clean a fuel tank we usually drop a medium or small size steel chain hang the tank on rope and shake the hanging tank till we see clean bottom always with kerosene or diesel to increase wet clean Seeing the tank remains old times far away Keep teaching and we keep learning Julio

On slightly less rusty tanks, usually on motorbikes, I'd drop a large piece of magnet, usually ferrite off an old speaker, it collects any bits floating around and is quite happy sat in the petrol.

Nice old ninety , I've owned a 2.25 petrol ninety for over 20 years!, my fuel pump is behind the rear wheel. Think that's a 2.5 petrol looking at the rocker cover. Changed the tank on mine few years back sod of a job!! Carb jets block easy ,easy to get to though! Brill videos helped me out a few times ! Keep up the good work👍

That's I genuine Land Rover 90 that Mike by the looks it's not been played about with or done any hard work that chassis looks really good for a defender lol

That hole for the choke could be used to put a hand throttle onto diesels. It is a really useful thing to have.

Well done that would explain why my genny played up last year many thanks

“Degolas, and the petrol in it...”. I was expecting you say it tasted bad!

I think that wee 90 deserves a tank lol

Had steering lock off several times but must have been doing it wrong. Never removed wheel.

"I think there's been moisture in the tank' - bwahahahahaha!!!!!

It's amazing how much moisture would have entered the tank with a evap system. I thought it would be a closed system, or is too old for such a system. I wonder if an in-tank pump would fit a 10 gal series tank? Perhaps the faulty pump or the shorter pump size you had for testing. That dual throat Weber is great; fitted one to my series 3, with manifolds. At least LR improved the exhaust manifold by beefing up the casting. By the way, that stream of petrol looked like honey.

Had to change an ignition on my g reg 110 after some clown failed to steal it. Lost a day and $60 odd putting it back but managed without taking the steering wheel off. Was a pain though. Cheers

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I was told many years ago to try to keep your tank full to prevent condensation forming during cold nights and causing rust. Not sure how true this is. Any comments on this subject are welcome.

I think Lucas are now a marketing brand rather than a manufacturing company, I buy Lucas batteries, made in Germany.

I'd not be that worried about the carb , if it hasn't run and that pump is knackered none of that crap from the tank would of got that far down the system. You say it's been sat in a garage for 20 years that's enough to get that tank in that state. It's good the pump was knackered and he bought it for you otherwise then he would have had more issues!

I’d be very wary letting the customer take the vehicle out with the tank in that condition. I have no idea about Canadian liability laws, but regardless, the tank looks unsafe - it could split and leak, but even if it just becomes porous, the vapours are inflammable and you don’t want that coming back at you.

Are there fiber glass tanks for the older defenders? At least it wouldn't have that.

What's the French for "Your tank is knackered, mate"?

needs another tank

Part 2?

Chinese quality is so shocking they are not putting the country of origin on the box. You do realise you just broke it taking it out of the box.