Thread: A very technical repair to the Puma...

Originally Posted by spudfan

This is of a somewhat technical nature but I'll try to keep it simple, hopefully it will be understood.
The wife caught one of the steps on the 2008 Puma on a rock hidden in long grass and bent it severly. I put a tow rope to the step, put the other end of the towrope to the towbar on the 2011 Puma and inched forward. Result, one repaired repositioned step.
I did my best to kept that highly technical procedure simple.

This is a classic case of 'Bailing twine and fencing wire repairs'. And is the very essence of Land Rover ownership and maintenance !!!
Well done My friend,

G'day Spudfan,
Read your thread and found it interesting.Read it again using my best Irish accent,hilarious.Dunno why

A more elegant solution would have been some percussive maintenance through liberal application of the flogometer (aka 4lb mallet)

Needs to go on Topix,so everyone will know what to do when the step gets damaged.

If you are talking about the tubular genuine Land Rover Defender side steps, I thought they just needed to look at a rock to bend :P

Yes I "repair" customers Defender side steps like this all the time, although my method is slightly different..... I use a 3.2 ton Defender 130 TD5

This reminds me....
The bottom of the genuine Land Rover Defender side step sits about level with the bottom of the chassis, which is ok, but they bend/fold on anything that grazes them.

Customers like them as they offer the functionality of being able to be used as a side step for the old, tired, lazy, short or small creatures such as children.

Someone such as Ben from APT Fabrications should make a rock slider that sits down further so it can be used as a side step. He was doing up a set for a Defender 90, but I've not heard any more about it.....

Regards
Daz

Some people over on the Defender2.net site have been asking for a lot of technical details regarding this operation so to end this request for technical info which I don't feel qualified to give, here is my final word on the subject, taken from Defender2.net.
I'm afraid I cannot in all honesty give those type of specifics. You see it was like this. The great Man in Land Rover heaven spoke to me with the hallowed instructions.
"Thou shalt take thine rope and entwine it around the step that is in need of assistance. Thou shalt then hitch up thine rope to then 2011 Puma chariot. Thou wilt urge thine chariot forward but be sparing of thine horses. When the once comely maiden (some decades ago) who hath perpetrated this profanity on the 2008 Puma step raises her voice to the heavens thou wilt know that thou has urged thine 2011 Puma steed to the limit necessary and thou shalt stop. All will be as before."
I just followed the instructions. Can't really accept much credit for it.

What is you favourite colour?

Originally Posted by landy

This is a classic case of 'Bailing twine and fencing wire repairs'. And is the very essence of Land Rover ownership and maintenance !!!
Well done My friend,

Probably explains why it's hard to find a good older one.