Nigelgti

HI Lads, I've done it.. wellmost of it. I have the Puma bulkhead installed and have retained the Puma/D3 clocks. The main modifications were.. Using the puma set up in the cab, I replaced the floors, transmission tunnel & seat box, all with Puma parts. The different dashboard interfers with the gear selector, so we rengineered the gear selector housing to move back towards the seat box by 80-90mm. This means that the Transfer selector (LT77, which is behind the gear lever) has to be moved. We've achieved this by moving it to beside the gear lever (Like a Puma), using the remote cable set-up from a D2. On the engine side, we had to modify the heater box, to prevent it hitting turbo/manifold/exhaust etc... and also the heater taps need to be modified. Finally the clever stuff... Can Bus. We retained the original Puma/Ford MoCo engine ECU, 10AS unit & harness. Speedo can be operated by fitting the electronic speedo pick up from TD5/Puma to the transfer box instead of the mechanical speedo drive (nice easy one!). Same goes the the coolant temp sensor, we got the CTS from a puma, fitted into a aluminium pipe joiner and inserted into the top rad hose. Small bit of jiggery pokery & the fuel sender works directly with the clocks. Now the tricky one(This is a work in progress, hopefully we'll get it sorted this w'end), the Rev counter. We've fabricated a 60-2 trigger wheel, mounted to the crankshaft & by using the o.e.m crank position sensor & bracket (mounted on the 200tdi timing cover) hopefully this will work! So the result... is the new dash & proper heating of the Puma, but with the simple, reliable 200 tdi.... Hopefully, this will see it all working correctly, tbh not sure if its worth the hassle.... there is quite alot of specialised work involved in getting it working, not to be achieved at home by most!