Thread: Puma - overfill of fuel tank?

Originally Posted by sashadidi

Also one of the photos here:
Defender2 - View topic - fuel breather pipe

This thread is a good read – though all these people are experiencing fuel leaks out of the breather hose (1” or ¾” or whatever it is), not the 5mm hockeystick like mine

Oh, and I’ve got those cracks in the breather hose by the filler as well…

From memory people extended the" hockey stick "to as to prevent any chance of road dirt,rain etc getting in , also using a one way valve like on a boat that allows air out but nothing back in at the end of the extension??? search on dirt in the fuel here(puma) and I am sure you will find something about the subject. good luck

one way valve is supposed to let air in, not fuel out ???

I just spoke to a service guy at LR who told me not to put as much fuel in and that it was supposed to do that. Idiot.

Fundamentally no car should leak fuel onto the forecourt unless its coming out of the fuel nozzle hole onto the person operating the gun!

Originally Posted by Samblers

one way valve is supposed to let air in, not fuel out ???

I just spoke to a service guy at LR who told me not to put as much fuel in and that it was supposed to do that. Idiot.

Fundamentally no car should leak fuel onto the forecourt unless its coming out of the fuel nozzle hole onto the person operating the gun!

on the raised breather extension pipe , air our but no liquid down the pipe!!!! sorry for the confusion!!!!

Originally Posted by Cracka

I got a small brass male to male fitting put in the end of the black pipe you are holding, then ran pipe from that up in behind the plastic panel that covers the rear of the drivers side rear lights.

Thanks Mick, ive just been crawling around in the dirt seeing the best place to take a breather line to and the plastic panel by the rear lights is the highest you can get at the back of a 110... only just higher than the filler spout

unless i run it to the front of the car and up the engine bay...

When I did the tube I bought some fuel line to use, but to start with I used clear tubing just to see if the thing was still leaking I would be able to see the fuel in the tubing. But to this date I haven't and it's still the clear tube and there's been nothing in it. And when I fill up I always fill right to the top of the filler neck.

When I did it, I pulled the end of the hockey stick tube onto the top of the chassis rail and connected the new tube there. I also put a loop in the tube up behind the plastic panel just like you would in a marine application of a breather tube so that if any small amount of water does happen to find its way in it would need to fill the whole loop before travelling along the tube.

No need to remove the wheel I just lifted the chassis a little with the trolley jack to give a bit of space.

Mick

Thats a great idea, thanks for that

My puma 130 dumped diesel out the breather for the first time today.
Filled it like I always do. Local roadhouse same Hiflow pump and first cut out.
This indicates it's not 'normal' something in the system has become faulty. There is a valve in the breather tube