Thread: 09 PUMA... With water in fuel

Have you looked at where your fuel tank breather is located? I moved mine and now get no water in the sedimenter.

There is a thread dullbird wrote about this very issue - I understand she had LR back down from charging (and blaming) her. Good luck.

Yes, the fuel breather location is what generally seems to be considered by all as the source of the problem. Someone here posted pics of where the 08MY onwards breathers were positioned and it was regarded by some as being worse than where it was originally.

Several 07MY owners have had theirs relocated to behind the LH rear wheel arch splash guard (with I think some even relocating it into the cabin). 08MY onwards have them up on top of the fuel tank.

sorry to hear that mate.....Its not a nice thing to happen

Where are you located?

Sorry to hear about your problem, I had thought all of the breathers had been relocated. Would the instalation of a glass sediment bowl-like on my series111- help to ease the problem? I know that the fuel filter on the Puma is very close to the tank (mine is a 110). Could a glass sediment bowl be fitted here and the filter relocated further along the chassis? At least with the glass bowl you could visually check the diesel regularly. Maybe there is some reason why this cannot be done.
I got my dealer to extend my breather pipe by running it up to the bulkhead at the back of the engine bay. The top of the extension is somewhere behind the brake servo.They were dismantling a Discovery which was down to the chassis.The gave me some tools and told me to take the fuel line from the Discovery which was added to the breather on the Puma and run along the chassis rail up to the bulkhead in the engine bay. This was fixed in place with cable ties. The fuel line from the Discovery was used as it was close to hand -after I had removed it-but you or they could use other piping.Can't see your dealer having a problem doing it.

Id be sure in saying it not the Australian fuel thats the problem.

I know of at least 3 puma owners whose 110's have been back to the UK dealers more than twice - one I know has been back 5 times for the same problem!

The factory fix is to move the breather behind the rear light plastic flap,the breather pipe was getting blocked with dirt and the water was being drawn into the system via the fuel cap lock as the tank couldn't vent,and could only do this by the cap.
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Originally Posted by Grockle

The factory fix is to move the breather behind the rear light plastic flap,the breather pipe was getting blocked with dirt and the water was being drawn into the system via the fuel cap lock as the tank couldn't vent,and could only do this by the cap.
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Yes apparently.....I don't believe this was the case with ours too much water and to coincidental when it happened on the heaviest rainfall for feb in a number of years...our breather was hanging directly over the rear wheel

Hi db,are you still having problems ?,this must have been going on nearly 12 months.