Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)

OK it's actually pink and black. It's the colours of the two fluids that are coming from the area just inside the drivers side front wheel 

The first is power steering fluid and is coming from this which is the Adwest Steering box which I have just removed. 

There are a couple of things to note when doing this (which I learned the hard way) which are that the bolts holding the steering column in need to be fully removed in order to get that our and have room to manoeuvre this out, and the pipes on the top are most easily removed with a Crow Foot socket (something I had never used before). After that it's just a job of removing the bolts holding it in and separating the ball joint on the drop arm with a splitter... 

Copious amounts of the pink stuff are released when you take the pipes off so I'm glad not to have done this on the new drive at home 

The black is coming from this which is the oil cooler pipe leading to the oil cooler built into the radiator. It's a simple replacement item if you don't drop the O ring and have to scramble on the floor to find it

So back to the power steering box. It needed quite some effort to get the first part of it apart, and even more of the pink to pour out. Some corrosion where the seal has let some moisture in so it's needed some time with emery paper.

If you look on the left where the round seal is you will see a couple of marks we put on regarding where it is before we take it apart. We're doing this on all the sections as we go 

Something that I have noted again is how useless the Haynes and the Workshop manual both are when it comes to this type of job. There is simply not enough detail in them to see how anything is put together and is therefore taken apart. The best document for this (as has been for almost all the work done in 2020) has been the Defender Parts Catalogue a copy of which I have made available via the link (Warning if you are on limited data this is a 28Mb file!)