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swapping disco to defender swivels and drive shafts

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chuggaman:
panhard rod!!!!!

lie on your lrft side with foot against wheel and push with foot violently to get vehicle rocking...

whilst doing this you will hopefully hear if not see and feel the movement.

if you have the original landrover bushes they have many metal inserts surrounded by many rubber inserts....which make that metallic click sound..the one that sounds as if your brake pad got temporarily stuck and then slammed against the disc...

10.00 of polybush should do the trick..

mike

Matt_H:

--- Quote from: "chuggaman" ---
lie on your lrft side with foot against wheel and push with foot violently to get vehicle rocking...

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trying to picture this, left side of body in contact with ground, which way is my head facing and which foot is pushing agasint what?

If it's panhard bushes, would that account for up and down ness making the clunk (normally as it drops into pothole or a big undulation on the road) but much more when wagling the steering?  Also I noticed when I drove along my favourite gravelled byway to work it really does go clunk clunk pretty much all the time!

Finally someone said about turning the steering - the car moves abuot 1/2 an inch side to side when you do that stationary, no idea if that is normal or not.

Oh I do hope its those bushes, that would make like so much easier :-)

Matthew

Snake110:

--- Quote from: Finally someone said about turning the steering - the car moves abuot 1/2 an inch side to side when you do that stationary, no idea if that is normal or not.

Oh I do hope its those bushes, that would make like so much easier :-)

Matthew[/quote ---

Hi matt that statement does it for me ive had exactly the same fault
on a raro a disco and a 110
im 99.9% certain you have either one or both PanhardRod Bush's
collapsed

further to the fault finding by lieing on the floor

lie on youre left side facing youre front diff in front of the car DOH!
close enugh to be able to reach the panhard rod then
using youre right leg give the left front wheel a good hard shove
whist looking at first one end then the other of the panhard rod
i almost guarantee you will see excesive sideways movement
at one end or the other possibly both btw excessive movement
will be any more than 3 or 4 mm..
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Matt_H:
well if it is that I will be happy as well as really [!Expletive Deleted!] off... guess what i chucked with the axle last week?  A blooming panhard rod and two bushes (ok so they were disco ones and prolly wont fit) but when they say you get rid then need it, it really is true...

sold disco engine complete - need a new pump for the 90 costing twice what i sold (gave away) the engine for

gave away the rear axle complete to a mate - needed a new disc brake calliper on the 90 a week after.

oh well.. I'm sure it's not the first, or the last time I'll do something like that!

Thanks guys!
Matt

Matt_H:
right then, ian got under car and noticed things moving about 2-3mm when they sholdn't be moving so we got the bushes replaced on the panhard rod.  They were polly bushes and the holes were off centre by about 2-3mm each end.  The metal itself hadn't broken up though.

Anyway things seem better now that's replaced -the clunk is still there, jut not as pronounced ro frequent (time will tell though on the way to work)

As I may have mentioned I noticed one of the hockey sticks was all over to one side, I bashed this back to the centre again but haven't had a change to see if it has gone back to one side.

I'm guessing the rest of the bushes up front may be past it as well, so I think those should be done next.  I did try removing hockey sticks from the dico but found it impossible.. is there a knack or is that one best left for the garage?

Matthew

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