#40 Front Runner water tank install - DEFENDER 

Great job on the install. You can remove the mufflers from a 300Tdi. Helps a lot to remove the exhaust gases quickly. I've had no mufflers on my tuned 300Tdi for a long time.

Love the front runner gear. They make good stuff!

That space is also good for a storage box which a lot of companies make. Great for gas bottles or wet gear.

The water tank install is a pain. The locating bolt does require you to put a huge amount of aft force on the stone guard so there is adequate thread reaching through the guard for the nut, or, you can get a longer bolt. Much better idea. In terms of the tap: I think I’m going to rip mine off every time I do some significant 4 wheeling. That was 4 years ago now. I’ve done a full loop around Australia in 2019, most of it off road, including The Old Tele Track in Cape York, The Savanna Way, Lorella Springs, Seven Emu Station, Coburg Peninsula, Kalumburu, Dirk Hartog Island and the list goes on. That bloody tap is still there. I live near the Blue Mountains and regularly head up to Pipe Line, Moon Rock, The Spanish Steps and so on. Tap still there 😁

What an awesome use of dead space 👌

Loved it all. Thanks.

FR really need to redesign that set up.

Great video Mark. It looks like a good bit of kit - awesome use of totally dead space - but it appears that while the design is solid, the final fit / finnish seems to totally suck.

Not wanting to speak out of turn... you should have a car stand. Don't rely on your Jack alone buddy. Other wise gr8 fit.

On some of the old Aus Army Landrovers they made Storage/Toolboxes there and had a Door on the Outside, was that plate Square ? it looks like it should of went back more.

Oh. And no dust ingress, even without a flange. Comes in just about everywhere else though

With the exhaust right there you should have hot water after a long day or driving

Did the same install about 2 months ago on my 2014 Puma….and had exactly the same experience. Whoever wrote the instructions should be shot! Same issue with water inlet. I also managed to cross thread the cheap nasty hose bung at the tap end which is easy to do. Considering the price of the tank these should be brass fittings. Can you do an update with pump install to give us some advice?

Ummmm, it looks quite job! It is never straight forward with Defender or doing something with any other cars! Why not just use silicon or gum gum to seal top filler gap? So rear fender support rod is not needed? I could not quite make up my mind because of the cost!

That’s going to rub with 35s. That templates awful I’d want the tank as far back as possible and the filler tube is very poor quality a real pity when front runner gear is so highly regarded

That kit looks a bit piss poor. I’d be disappointed (as you seem to be) with the half-arsed attempt of giving the customer a complete kit. It’s like they don’t even care if it works, doesn’t work or kinda works.

For the cost that’s absolute crap. These guys need to vastly improve their design and instructions. For you to have to supplement parts yourself is piss poor.

Considering the cost of front runner gear, this kit looks terrible.