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SteveGoodz:
Well, as some of you suggested it's going to need a new stub axle - I can't get the inner race of the inner bearing off. I've tried heat, sprocket puller, stilsons and the dreaded cold chisel ... bloody thing hasn't budged a millimetre :evil:
Having hacked large chunks of the race off with the chisel it's obviously welded itself to the axle. I'll put some pictures on here once the axle is off .. it ain't pretty :-o
Typical that this would happen over the Easter period when no-one is open, now I won't get the parts until probably Thursday :'( I have played safe this time and ordered just about everything I can think of that might be worn/knackered once I get the stub axle off.
Bl**dy Land Rovers!! :evil:
Range Rover Blues:
Whilst you're at it then, strip the other 3 hubs and grease the hell out of them. Personally I put new bearings in with new disks for how little they cost.
SteveGoodz:
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on April 04, 2010, 21:03:38 ---Whilst you're at it then, strip the other 3 hubs and grease the hell out of them. Personally I put new bearings in with new disks for how little they cost.
--- End quote ---
Spent today replacing the bearings on the other front hub and re-greasing the rears. Surprisingly the rears looked like new so maybe they've been done before. The o/s/f looked like it wouldn't have lasted too much longer.
TBH, I'm dreading taking the stub axle off. I have a horrible feeling I'm not gonna like what I find inside [-o<
New discs and pads will get fitted when I have some time off work in a couple of weeks. Hopefully that'll be it for the rest of the year :-#
SteveGoodz:
Well the job is finally finished :D
I was pretty relieved to find nothing amis in the swivel housing, today has really been putting it all back together.
Here's a shot of the old stub axle with the inner bearing race which has effectively welded itself to the stub.
nismo2004:
that looks ok to me dude, lol, duno why you need a new one :shocked: he he
i was reading your post the other day. then 2 days later similer thing happend to me on the m25. suddenly pulled to the left as if the brake jammed on the let go, i pulled over and looked underside and didnt find anything then carried on. was only sunday i thought oh, lets try the wheels for play, yup nice movement in the wheels both sides, passenger side the worse. (side that gabbed).
ive orderd the bearing kits to do both fronts, was hoping to have them saturday so i would have the weekend to fit them. but they havent arrived yet. so looks like a job for next weekend. not worked on a disco before so should be interesting. tho froam what i have read up they seem pretty easy to do providing they havent welded themsleves to the stub axle.
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