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wowscounty
20th June 2009, 08:53 AM
my mates new defender with 7500ks has masive oil leak under bonnet he has taken it to mechanic and has been diagnosed as oil pump leak aparently all ford transit motors fail the same way this is really bad news for him as reliability is aworry when he goes into the pilbara bush gold prospecting anyone got any ideas or had the same drama
Captain_Rightfoot
20th June 2009, 08:57 AM
Hi! This is a known problem and there has been substantial discussion on this here. The search function should get you there.
Scallops
20th June 2009, 09:01 AM
It's no real drama - not in LR terms anyway! Its the brake vacuum pump - the seals go, leaking engine oil. The brakes still work! All you need is top up oil to get you to the dealer - they replace pump with modified version so this won't occur again.
dullbird
20th June 2009, 09:58 AM
If you go into the defender section you will see there is a thread in the sticky section that has all the recalls and bulletins for the 07 defender onwards. the vacuum pump is in there with the relevant part numbers etc
discowhite
20th June 2009, 01:08 PM
oh and welcome to pumasville:twisted:

cheers phil
spudboy
20th June 2009, 01:56 PM
I must be about the only person with a Puma who hasn't had this done yet. Hope it fails before the warranty runs out (mine is an '07).

One bloke I know has gone through 3!!

Can I get it changed if it is not leaking?
dullbird
20th June 2009, 02:20 PM
I believe you can get it changed if you express concern or at least thats what I think it says in the bulletin...go have a look
dmdigital
20th June 2009, 02:57 PM
I must be about the only person with a Puma who hasn't had this done yet. Hope it fails before the warranty runs out (mine is an '07).

One bloke I know has gone through 3!!

Can I get it changed if it is not leaking?


I believe you can get it changed if you express concern or at least thats what I think it says in the bulletin...go have a look

Mine's still the original. Yes you can get it changed, but then the issue is the changed one may go if its not the newest model unit. So I'm working on the theory that if it isn't broke, don't fix it. I did think of carrying a spare, but didn't get around to it.