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Serious steering issues...Tries to kill me over 40mph!
Bob696:
same problem on our 110 but at 55mph. Know what the problem is now ...snapped the panhard rod bracket on the axle :-(
tomo-tdi:
haha im no mechanic and i might have misintepreted what he said to me so sorry for any confusion and ja thanks for the compliment when i seen photos before i purchased it i was pricing up paint but now i have the 90 the colour has kinda grown on me is this a standard LR colour or is it like nato something or other so i can order some more for touching up etc?
extreme90:
nackered rear trailing arm to chassis bushes will do the exact same syptoms as your giving
aswel as making interesting cornering :P
Tommo:
Ive had the panhard rod mounts wear the holes oval so you can not stop the movement no matter how tight you do the bolts.
Range Rover Blues:
You "should" be able to do them up so that they don't move. The idea is that the bolt grips the unner sleeve and the brakcet together and the bush is then supported on the friction rather than shear force on the bolt. Check the bush isn't collapsing and has a solid sleeve. On some Ford the bush mounts are slotted to allow toe-in settings.
The doughnut under the diff is something to do with NVH in the drivetrain, they appeared on RRC along with the thicker propshafts on the EFi models, though I honeslty couldn't say I could demonstrate their contribution to the world.
In a similar vain though there is a lump of square rod bolted under each swivel pin on the knuckles, this is to dampen the steering action. People who have fitted DAN bars have niticed an improvement in damping due to the extra weight of the bars. For a while on blue I ran with 2 steering dampers, I never found the Defender one as effective although it is less prone to damage.
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