Hi All,

I've been a guest viewer of the forum for a while but now I'm in need of some help so I'm hoping someone can be of assistance... I need to identify a faulty component on my L322 TD6 (2004). It is mounted to the chassis using a rubber mount - it's on the offside rear, underneath the car, above the drive shaft.

It looks like a valve of some kind - it has a power or sensor line connected to it and appears to have at least and in and out hose connected - on a quick initial inspection I couldn't say for sure if there were 2 lines or 3. The immediate connections are rubber hoses but it looks like these connect to metal piping after a short run. It did have some kind of metal ball in it - suggesting a ball vale of some kind - but the plastic has sheared and this has fallen out. I've tried to take a pic but it is rather hidden!

fuel pump for the fuel burning heater by the looks of it

Just pulled it off - you're right, small pump for the pre/aux heater. It's labeled as part:

Thomas Magnete 89372A

Google doesn't list many for sale... any tips on who might have one they can ship to France? Rather avoid ordering through a French dealer, that could be quite eye watering!

Cheers,

Chris

they made made by webasto a lot of vehicles have these heaters (top end rovers you can find in scrap yards) for a cheep second hand one
look on the MG forum for a bloke called French Mike might be able to point you in right direction
he IS the guru on FBH and lives in France

There's loads on eBay!

Not sure if Duckworths would send to Europe. Send Dan a message.

Just bought one from eBay in France from a German supplier... fingers crossed, should be ok!

Question is, can I drive the car without it if needed? It doesn't seem to be leaking with it removed... but I guess that could change once running.

Thanks for the help so far! I had initially feared it was a leaky diff so it's quite pleasing to find the cause of the leak to be much more straightforward - phew!

just plug the rubber pipes with a 6mm bolt to keep the muck out and stop it leaking,might be best to pull fuse 59 to stop the FBH firing up and locking out