Thread: 2.5 years and 4 clutches. Soon will need another. My Puma

Originally Posted by Allan

Mine is a 2008 SVX it had one egr replaced after my trip north when the clean down cycle sounded like a rusty outside toilet door opening and closing. The first clutch replacement lasted about 5000km after waiting a month for the kit to arrive from the U.K. This one even feels a lot better than the preceding two. As far as egr's go I think the only answer is a remap that shuts the thing for keeps, I await s.h.m.b.o. permission for this.


Allan

Every vehicle that I know of fitted with egr's has issue's so turning them off seems the only answer. Pat

See post below about Clutch:

Technical Service Bulletin LTB00477/2012 : Released on 06 Aug 2012



http://www.aulro.com/afvb/1736394-post81.html

Abrie

Originally Posted by Graeme

Is much idling done?

I'm in the inner suburbs of Sydney so I guess so when sitting at lights.

Now up to to 8500ks on our 2012 Defender 90 with my wife driving mostly as I work away. She slips ,drops rides, and generaly gives the clutch a very hard time as far as Im concerned but no problems at all so far. It has a bullet proof feel to the whole vehicle. We got 250,000ks out of our first clutch in the Disco 2 with the same offender doing most the driving. It was only when we had to fix the transfer case we decided to do the clutch and found out we had a dual mass flywheel, an expensive little exercise. I would not be surprised if there is an alignment problem with your vehicle. John B and I have the same new 2012 defender 90 and the difference between the 2 vehicles is amazing. Especially noticed when fitting accesiories Johns needed 3 spacers on bull bar mine only 1 fitting under console safe box huge difference it would appear his vehicle sits forward on chassis 10mm nore than mine. Hope you can find out whats wrong and let us all know. Is the dealer helpful or a pain and who are they?

Originally Posted by astoltz

See post below about Clutch:

Technical Service Bulletin LTB00477/2012 : Released on 06 Aug 2012



Abrie

Version 2 is out replacing the above:
Technical Service Bulletin LTB00477v2 : Released on 20 Aug 2012

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/1753793-post84.html
Abrie

Spigot bush missing or wrong one?

Ive now done 3 clutchs on various vehicles in the last 12ish months that have either not had a spigot bearing when they should have or the spigot bearing was the wrong one for the job and was oversize.

only one was exhibiting the symptoms you describe but it also had input bearing noise which may be what your listening to, is it as bad if you use 4th gear?

Hey Dave, hard for me to comment. Is it a time consuming job to get it either the spigot bearing or input bearing checked? Id be paying to get it done.

Also, I havent noticed the noise in fourth.

Cheers.

Originally Posted by alittlebitconcerned

Hey Dave, hard for me to comment. Is it a time consuming job to get it either the spigot bearing or input bearing checked? Id be paying to get it done.

Also, I havent noticed the noise in fourth.

Cheers.

engine/gearbox pull.