Thread: Puma Bonnet

Originally Posted by Ancient Mariner

If you are looking for extra height this gives about 25 mm If you needed to walk on it would need appropiate bracing


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A stealth scoop! Crazy idea, but well executed. It looks right.

I guess you could scoop up a whole lot of bugs and make a pretzel. Yeah stealth, they won’t know what hit them! Sorry dudes but a piece of checker plate on top of a classic Defender bonnet is just ...not very good at all.

Originally Posted by Zeros

I guess you could scoop up a whole lot of bugs and make a pretzel. Yeah stealth, they won’t know what hit them! Sorry dudes but a piece of checker plate on top of a classic Defender bonnet is just ...not very good at all.

Yet that Defender is probably the one most all of us that have seen build pics lust after.

Few would argue it would have to be one of the best engineered Land Rovers to grace mother earth.

I'm guessing a bit of clearance was needed for the big Isuzu lurking underneath.

Originally Posted by rick130

Yet that Defender is probably the one most all of us that have seen build pics lust after.

Few would argue it would have to be one of the best engineered Land Rovers to grace mother earth.

I'm guessing a bit of clearance was needed for the big Isuzu lurking underneath.

Each to their own 👍 glad you like it. I prefer the classics.

Originally Posted by Zeros

Each to their own glad you like it. I prefer the classics.

The overall vehicle is hugely impressive, it addresses all the shortcomings Land Rover engineered into the basic vehicle.

I'm no fan of checker plate but I'm guessing it's there for a purpose and knowing how tight clearance is for a turboed 4BD1T it makes sense. It'd be practical, function over form.

The same went for the grille on my old Deefer, 2 pieces of 1" weldmesh hinged at the bottom so that a filter can be sandwiched to prevent grass seeds and crap blocking the rad.
It was also slightly better protection against sticks than the plastic louvres of the stock item.
Pretty?
No.
Practical on a farm and off road?
Absolutely.

Well an absolutely absurd crap of a day happened today.
Head off to Dalhousie Springs for the long weekend. Pull up for a cuppa to smell hot oil Faffing power steering box input shaft seal decided to extrude itself from around the shaft.
This happened with the output shaft seal also mid last year, following rebuild and was rectified by a seal from Mario. I should have replaced the input also (who'd have thought new "branded" parts would be dodgy) but thought id dodged a bullet and let it stay...not so.
So what has this got to do with Puma bonnets?
I wandered around the scrub for a bit to clear my head and stumbled apon a puma bonnet with a few minor dings lying there. 300kms from anywhere and well into scrub, it now has a new home.

I wandered around the scrub for a bit to clear my head and stumbled apon a puma bonnet with a few minor dings lying there. 300kms from anywhere and well into scrub, it now has a new home.

Odd part from a Puma to leave in the bush!
You should notice it missing