Vehicle & Technical > Discovery

help or advise please!

(1/3) > >>

FREAKLEY:
Hi,

I brought a 1994 discovery 2.5tdi es about a month ago.

It went back for some repairs because there was a loud vibration, mainly in the high gears or at a higher speed.  It gradually got worse and was happening in all gears, and it was very loud!!

We thought that it was something to do with the prop, but we were told that it was the prop mounting, and that it had been replaced.

The gears are a bit clunky also, when you change gear and take your foot off  the clutch it chonks, maybe its because I am not used to drinving it yet and I am trying to change gear too fast?

This weekend we went for a drive and noticed that it still makes a loud vibrating when you go over 50pmh, when you take your foot off the accelarator it goes away. as we were driving home everytime we turned a corner it made a chonking noise from the front end, both sides did this when we went around a corner, this was after acouple of hours drive.  As we apporached home we did a u turn and put it on full lock, a loud clanging noise came out and then an even louder chonk!!! and it would not drive then?

The garage have picked it up and have just told me that it is the CV joint, is this correct?

Any other ideas to our problems regarding the vibrating?

We are moving to Greece in January and need a reliable car.  Can anyone give us some advise a we are first time discovery owners?  Please!!!!!

 :lol: [/b]

Digsit:
Hi

Are you the chap that I gave the flyer to at the caravan storage place nr Desford? :D

I have only experienced high speed vibration through the gearbox once. Turned out that one of the front propshaft U/J had mashed its bearings. Got it fixed (about £15.00 and a little help from a freind). Been fine since.

orlando:
I'd say Prop UJ's as well.. could whip em out replace the UJs and get the whole prop balanced at the same time..

MUSKIE:
i have had the same problem on the front of my range rover, i have ordered 2 new cv joints as they are both origionals and now some 14 years old. i am hoping this cures the problem anyway, luckily i am replacing them before the big "clonk"  :shock: you describe.

Range Rover Blues:
Unfortunatley it's hard to track down a noise from the front end as the vibration carries up the transmission, it sounds like the gearbox simply because that's how the noise is transmitted.
However, if the noise gets worse during cornering as you describe then it's either the diff itself (not the final drive) or the cv joints.  Yours sounds like the later.
If all the grease or oil stays in the swivel then they should last well over 100,000 miles of normal use, it's when they leak the oil out or get a dunking and the oil is washed out that problems arise.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page