Thread: Bundalene's Puma project

Bolted a lot of bits back onto the Defender. In the process I noticed a dust leak behind the speaker cover with poor sealing where the wires for the tail lights come through from underneath. This vehicle has done little dirt road driving and there was already heaps of dust in the area.






The photo is before I sealed the area












Another observation was the Puma Safari snorkel. The top section is now one complete moulded piece. This means that if you break the mesh section, which happens regularly it costs about $100 instead of $10 to replace.








Also completed the inner guard, with a cut-out for the snorkel hose and also made a bracket with riv nuts to allow for easy assembly of the snorkel. Hope to get the car to the paint shop early next week. I am tentatively booked in.





A bit hard to see, (the pic is taken from the inside of the guard) The aluminium bracket with the 4 snorkel riv nuts is attached with 2 counter sunk screws.



Erich

Originally Posted by Bundalene

Another observation was the Puma Safari snorkel. The top section is now one complete moulded piece. This means that if you break the mesh section, which happens regularly it costs about $100 instead of $10 to replace.

AFAIK Donaldson still make the old-style snorkel head. The last one I bought was $30 for a complete 3" head (including detachable mesh piece) from QLD diesel spares. Places like truckline should stock them as well.

EDIT:
Here is the QDS catalogue - Page 7 - P# H008149 for 3" head.
http://www.qds.com.au/downloads/PROD...r%20inlets.pdf

As it is a donaldson part, any filter suppliier who sells donaldson parts should be able to source the rams or replacement mesh bits.

Bundalene,

The project, and its progress, has been simply sensational.

BZ


aew849
04 130 TD5 DCPU "Truck"
10 90 Puma "Lewis"

I was re-assembling the guards and came across the breathers from diffs etc. I always had planned to bring all the breathers together to one point.


Our solution was to use a breather block as supplied by Hard Range (Paul and Andrew). We used all 5 inlets for:

Front Diff housing
Rear Diff housing
Transfer box
Fuel Breather (which I ran up to the front earlier)
Winch (presently coiled up behind the front left light for future use)
The gearbox breaths from the bellhousing section of the gearbox.

I mounted the block on top of the heater connections near the firewall. I figure this to be as dry and dust free as possible








The fuel tank breather was left at one end which allows easy removal for tank priming if required.



The breather lines come up from the chassis to the inner guard area and in behind the heater fan. This was quite simple at this stage with the guard removed






BYW this is the under side view of the outside air duct going from the guard top down to the fan. Older Defenders had a gap between the end of this duct and the fan itself. This allowed water to drain out, but also could breath fumes in if there was a problem.

In the Puma there is no gap and water is drained out through the 3 duck bill drains as per pic








Erich

Erich where did you get the block from as I have always wanted to put these on my cars I have all my breathers on the disco looped in the engine bay...but importantly the pumas have not been extended and I would like to in this very manner

So that's the breather block Andy was talking about. Looks very good Erich. Tell Andy I'll be in touch.

Originally Posted by dullbird

Erich where did you get the block from as I have always wanted to put these on my cars

Hi Lou

Someone carelessly left one on my work bench, so I used it.



Seriously though, They are listed with Hard Range as a P38 part. The blocks are CNC machined and all fittings are top notch.

P38 Full Breather Kit | Hard Range Australia


Give Andrew a call,



Erich

(for those on the Forum who don't know, Andrew is our son and he and Paul manage Hard Range)

great work budalene i am absolutely loving this project of yours