Thread: Pre-07 Milford Cage Fitting to 08 Puma

After seeing all the threads regarding the fittment of a Pre-07 Milford Cage to a Puma I thought I'd post details on how I did mine.

The first problem I had was that none of the dimensions provided by the Milford instructions really match the Puma model. This has been mainly caused by the middle seats being bigger and more laid back than the TD5 model. So first thing I did was remove the plastic latch surround on the deck (Fig1), who needs this anyway... This allows the bottom of the cage to be fitted back at 900mm from the back door.

Fig1


The measurement for the top mount of the cage from the A Pillar doesn't work either and the best I managed,l ined up directly with the over head handle (note: I have the seven seater). Which makes the brackets supplied in the kit useless... To overcome this I made up my own custom brackets which pick-up a set of existing roof bolt holes (Fig2), which was very convient as I wasn't so keen to bore a new of holes in my 110.

Fig2


Finally putting all the surrounds back on the bracket neatly fits and between the surround and overhead hand grab (Fig3).

Fig3:


The whole set up feels extremely ridgid and makes no noise or rattle... Next project is to fit my air compressor beneath the bonnet, I'm thinking passenger side fire wall, alongside the cabin blower unit...

I bought the ARB CKMA12, it was small enough to fit in the spot and it also has the other nice feature rotatable on it's base and on the motor centreline. To fit it into it's location I'll need remove the inlet duct and maybe loosen the blower unit, apart from that it should be all good... I'll try and photo installation again.