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blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17003

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Stornoway Grey

Clutch - manufacturers

My '07 Puma is in need of a new clutch (it will be its third) since it is rattling badly now.

Looking online, new clutch kits of the latest spec (pn LR012199) seem to be either Genuine Parts at around £250, or AP Driveline (formerly Borg & Beck) at about £125.

Borg & Beck used to make all the world's clutches and was a firm with an excellent reputation, so an APD clutch should be every bit as good as a LR one - APD may even make Genuine Parts ones for all I know!

So, is it a bad move and false economy to fit a APD clutch at half the price of a LR one? Should I bite the bullet and get the Genuine Parts clutch?

Opinions gratefully received please!

28th Jun 2011 4:20pm

Grockle

Member Since: 24 Nov 2008
Location: Peak District National Park
Posts: 2266

2008 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Tonga Green

what do you use ya truck for bw ? 2.4 90 XS
1968 1/32 scale Britains 109 Pick up.

28th Jun 2011 5:22pm

Dave-H

Member Since: 08 Feb 2011
Location: Surrey
Posts: 1507

2007 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 HT Tonga Green

B+B will be fine ..... thats all we fit to Transits now, a few of which spend their life towing compressors and mini diggers.
Stopped fitting genuine [ford] units as B+B's were lasting longer

Guns and Landrovers .... anything else is irrelevant.

28th Jun 2011 7:44pm

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17003

Thanks. D-H, useful to know that.

Grockle - I use it for just about everything! At the moment I am doing about 750 miles per week (which means about £250 of fuel

) with nigh on a ton of tools in the back getting to and from a remote work site in Devon. Also sometimes tow anything up to 3.5 tons.

When not doing that it is usually hauling steam loco or crane parts, or railway track tools and components.

It had the first replacement clutch at first service (for first owner) due to death rattle, but the replacement then was the same inadequate design not the revised part, and the death rattle is now back.

28th Jun 2011 11:32pm

yaho

Member Since: 26 Nov 2008
Location: Bialystok
Posts: 200

2007 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 SW Keswick Green

Be aware of some clutches offered on e-bay.
I have bought one as new design but it was old. Janusz
www.yahodeville.com

29th Jun 2011 7:19am

AndrewS

Member Since: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Hereford
Posts: 3707

2013 Defender 130 Puma 2.2 SW Rimini Red

Change the front prop to a double cardan one and the clutch/transmission issues disappear.

Well it has on mine. 130's have feeling's as well you know

29th Jun 2011 7:29am

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17003

AndrewS wrote:
Change the front prop to a double cardan one and the clutch/transmission issues disappear. Well it has on mine.

Any idea why? On the face of it I don't see why this should make a difference to the clutch issue! If it does sort things out, it is an easy solution.

I don't suppose a Disco2 front prop fits?

29th Jun 2011 8:41am

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