Puma Part Concern

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Originally Posted by Rugrat

The issue AFAIK is the seal goes. Mine went after 11 months - we were on the blacktop and hadnt been offroad for a few weeks. I think when I washed the engine that grit and stuff worked its way in and stuffed the seal. As Scallops said though - dusty conditions would (logic says) speed the process - yet I don't think dm_td5 has had the pleasure of the failure yet and he's up in the dusty NT :) I'd say I'd lost 500ml to 1 ltr in the time it took to travel 40kms. So a few 5trs of oils would get you home if you not stuck in woop-woop.

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I drove around Australia and across both the Gibson and Simpson deserts, across the Savannah way and the Gibb River road etc and it didn't go. It's when you are driving in the dust cloud from a convoy of vehicles ahead that mine went. The track mine died on was super fine talc like dust and lots of it - it looked like we were driving through fog.

dm_TD5 can drive on dusty roads for years and not have the problem - drive behind 10 other vehicles in a dust cloud - different story.

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Originally Posted by Scallops

I drove around Australia and across both the Gibson and Simpson deserts, across the Savannah way and the Gibb River road etc and it didn't go. It's when you are driving in the dust cloud from a convoy of vehicles ahead that mine went. The track mine died on was super fine talc like dust and lots of it - it looked like we were driving through fog.

dm_TD5 can drive on dusty roads for years and not have the problem - drive behind 10 other vehicles in a dust cloud - different story.

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Interestingly I think that shows a bit of a hole in LR durability testing. You'd think they would have driven these things in convoys in dusty environments testing them. Maybe they didn't drive far enough?

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Originally Posted by Scallops

I drove around Australia and across both the Gibson and Simpson deserts, across the Savannah way and the Gibb River road etc and it didn't go. It's when you are driving in the dust cloud from a convoy of vehicles ahead that mine went. The track mine died on was super fine talc like dust and lots of it - it looked like we were driving through fog.

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dm_TD5 can drive on dusty roads for years and not have the problem

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- drive behind 10 other vehicles in a dust cloud - different story.

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They do have tarmac in gove you know:lol2:

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Originally Posted by Scallops

It's when you are driving in the dust cloud from a convoy of vehicles ahead that mine went. The track mine died on was super fine talc like dust and lots of it - it looked like we were driving through fog.

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That has hit it on the head - normally the fender is at the pointy end but I did do a couple of trips where we were TEC so drove in the clouds for a lot of the trip. That was the last time we went off-road before the leak occured....:o No more of that - the pointy parts more fun anyway.

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Originally Posted by Rugrat

That has hit it on the head - normally the fender is at the pointy end but I did do a couple of trips where we were TEC so drove in the clouds for a lot of the trip. That was the last time we went off-road before the leak occured....:o No more of that - the pointy parts more fun anyway.

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Only problem with that is that if you are travelling in a group convoy the positions should change about. it's not fair for one person to be TEC and live in all the dust for a whole trip just as it's not fair for one person so sit up the front for a whole trip.

Landrovers should be able to cope with convoy dust. :o

How about that. I think we might have found a common cause!!! Mine went after driving in convoy all weekend at Sundown National Park in the dusk and not at the front. It chose to go just as we were leaving the park. WOW I think AULRO maybe should be put in charge of LR R&D?????

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Cheers,

How good are LR , Austal that is,spoke to the rep in the service section today & he said they have only ever changed one vacuum pump on a Puma ever.

If its not leaking,they wont change it,even if it is a known problem:(

I had the pump replaced 3 times. Each time I was told it was a "new" model

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Originally Posted by RMB3218

I had the pump replaced 3 times. Each time I was told it was a "new" model

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Probably was new just not revised:D

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Originally Posted by scarry

How good are LR , Austal that is,spoke to the rep in the service section today & he said they have only ever changed one vacuum pump on a Puma ever.

If its not leaking,they wont change it,even if it is a known problem:(

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If it was Southside LR then I know of at least 3 car that have had it done there! Who was it you spoke to there?

Cheers,