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Grrrr Broken Down again !!

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landroverkeith:
:cry:   on the way home yesterday with me car trailer i heard a very horrid squeel and juddering again just like when the uj`s went on prop 1 week ago grrr, so i pulled over and stopped couldnt see anything out of order so i carried on and the squeel stopped when suddenly just as i passed riverside on the a45 loud bang and harsh pull to the left with smoke everywhere missing the armco by inch`s  :shock:  i slid to a halt my nearside front wheel is seized up solid will not move at all ! does anyone know wat it could be the AA just said "its Broke"

 hmmmm really............

beast5680:
sounds just like mine when it had a wheel bearing go on the front luckily it did outside my hous, its either that or one of the cv joints i suspect

landroverkeith:
:(  still sulking at the min cos i shoulda been playing up at farley quarry with me new series today so ive not been anywhere near the disco  :evil: its dumped at my mums so i wont see it for a week i might have stopped sulking by then grrr

seph234:
snap but mine just collapsed yesterday i dont mind coz ive got the bits in my garage waiting to go on ive just been lazy :D

Range Rover Blues:
The bearings have seized, the squealing was it complaining as the inner race ran around the stub axle, as you stopped it began to fuse together so that it wouldn't run.  The bad news is you need a new bearing kit and a new stub axle, they cost £100 plus so you will want a s/h one.  When you get that check the state of the bronze bush inside it before fitting.  If the stub axle has been heated at all you will probably find the inner race won't fit back on, or come off either.  If it's the inner one you can pull the hub off and leave the bearing on, if it's the outer you will struggle to dissasemble it all.

The bearing races are brittle and can be removed with a chisel if all else fails.

Finally you can check it's not the CV as soon as you remove the outer section of driveshaft from the hub, I'd put money on it that the hub still won't turn, a cv joint would be more likely to dissintergrate than lock up, they aren't that strong.

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