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wobble/vibration - help!

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Range Rover Blues:
I've got a horrible vibration that comes through the front end but seems to be steering related.  I've checked the swivels, replaced the perfectly ggod dampers on the front, replaced a good steering damper etc etc.  I can get rid of it if I refit the original steering damper AS WELL as the Defender one that's ahead of the axle.  Funny thing is the more I spend at the moment the worse it handles :?

Mace:
Andrew, I've got a similar wobble on mine. I've replaced, shocks, springs, steering damper, track rod ends, replaced the drag link for the defender set up and still it wobbles at 55mph or so. Last week I changed the radius arm bushes and the panhard rod bushes. The wobbles GONE at 55 mph :-) yippie, but it comes back at 65mph, now less severe :-(

Someone suggested tyres to me, someone else suggested it's the bushes on the steering damper...they have to be as tight as tight can be. Thats the next thing for me to try, fingers crossed.

Range Rover Blues:
Well I've done the poly bushes, tried 2 sets of tyres so the next thing is to bin the Defender steering damper and go back to standard.  Good point about the damper bushes though, thanks.

Matt_H:
found it!

thought I'd check out the steering damper as I'd had that off ercently after what people said - gave it a good shake, nothing, put my body weight on it and rocked from side to side - nothing.. grabbed prop as I leavered myself out - CLUNK!

Checked UJs and one of the arms bearing thingies of the X seems to have disintegrated.  Oddly there is no more transmission take up clunk than normal - hence why I'd not even though it could be those..

At least that is a cheap thing to replace :-)

Chuffed,
Matthew

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