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Range Rover Blues:
Some degree of backlash is normal, you have play in the differential that is an essential part of it's design, then there's going to be play in the splines of the inner halfshafts, their outer ends into the cv, wear in the cv by now I'd imagine, then wear on the splines inside the drive flange.  10 degrees, not unheard of at the front.

Go to say, one of my UJs was toast and I couldn't tell until I started to remove it from the car though :? Got to say it's still the most likely suspect unless you've done something particulary rough to your transmission, you'd remember doing it though.

jnoshea:
Thanks, that's reassurring. I'm certainly hoping that it's the UJ, as anything else is a lot more work to sort out.  [-o<

Range Rover Blues:
The lateral movement in the prop is what you need ot look at.  I'd expect a tiny amount of sideways play inthe output of a B-W box like mine, with high  miles on it, but not a massive amount and IIRC not so much on your LT230.

Anyway, I'm sure you have a Eureka moment on your horizon :)

Steve ray:
Prob is requiring new UJs - fairly cheap.

If your motor is lifted and gets a fair bit of (ab)use off road, then consider UJs almost as 'service items' due to the extra strain of lift and larger tyres, etc.

Additionally, if it's 300Tdi, it's got that "rubber donut" (3-bolt flange) on the rear diff end - ditch it, replace rear prop with a 200Tdi and change output flange on diff to 4-bolt type ........... much more reliable for a lifted motor.

jnoshea:
Just to let you all know that the problem turned out to be rubber coupling on the rear prop. It was so badly worn that bolt heads on the diff side were scraping on the prop flange! All done now and unsurprisingly much better to drive  :D

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