Thread: Cheap fix for fuel breather (water/dirt ingestion) on Puma?

After reading about (mainly) Lou's issues with water and dirt in the fuel on Puma's, I've been running mine for the last year with an extender on the breather tube.

However, today I had (I think) a better idea, and fitted a Ryco fuel filter to the breather, and then a 'tail' pipe poked into the chassis to keep it away from the water spray from the wheels.

All it took was a fuel filter and some fuel hose from Repco. Total cost was under $15.

I was thinking that even if I got it submerged for a short while, the rate of fill inside the fuel filter would hold a good quantitly of water before it would get sucked into the tank, and that it would drain out of the 'tail' once not submerged. The 'tail' is poked down the chassis rail, so no spray will hit it. Plus, you can see from the colour of the filter if you've ingested any crap.

Picture attached.

What do you guys think of this idea?

Cheers
David

I realise you blokes have probably done this to death but I just relocated the breather up behind the plastic light guard and secured it with a cable tie - I think this is all that Land Rover have done on the latest models - Spudboys solution is far superior of course. The breather does seem to have some sort of valve (the cylindrical thing?) and as I understand it the issue was with the candy cane hook bit getting blocked with dirt as it was hung directly over the back wheel. My question is whether just getting it out of the 'weather' as LR have done on the latest models is adequate, given that now it shouldnt get gunged up and the valve will prevent any ingress? Or should I go further - just have the high pressure fuel pump replaced (under warranty) with dirty fuel issues.