HDJ62 (2 Viewers)

[seatosummit]

Thanks @PBcuiser - I am just going to fab something for the radiator brackets. I am also going to copy your Racor fuel filter mount location.

I have it plumbed in place temporarily.

OK, so odd development: there is no return fuel line going back to the tank. There is only a single metallic line running along the frame rail that was (loosely) coupled to the fitting on the fuel tank. I think the tank is original (HJ61 NZ spec) and now strapped to the FJ62 body. The frame is original HJ61 but it literally only has the one line. For immediate purposes, I've routed the fuel return to the filter, but that seems ill advised based on what I've read.

I am confident that the tank has a provision for a return inlet. Question is, can I run 5/16 rubber all the way back to the tank from the return hose on the IP? or do I have to find a metallic line for the frame rail? Presumably those lines are metallic just for resiliency sake?

 

[Eurasiaoverland]

No problem technically to run a rubber hose, other than keeping it in place and secured without chafing.

Just make sure the tank is still able to breathe. There should be a separator in the right hand rear quarter, behind the trim board which takes five breather hoses from a number of places on the tank. The thickest is for the return on the filler neck, the other four should eventually be vented from the top of the separator, via a one way valve, to a hard line on the underside of the body which terminates inside a cross member of the body.