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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20780  
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Check for stones and or grit in tyre treads and remove with a item it such as a flat head screwdriver. It’s possibly your issue. WeWillWin🇬🇧🇺🇸
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24th Jul 2019 11:59am |
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| CharlieDonuts Member Since: 16 Jun 2019 Location: Illiers Combray Posts: 133  
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I went to see Francois the French Land Rover mechanic. He is a very competent mechanic but hilariously rude. Honestly he is very helpful but he has to pretend not to like the English. I know that secretly he likes me really
 Anyway he put a one shot grease pack into the swivel housing and the CLICK CLICK CLICK noise went away. So the question is why do I have to do this two summers in a row ? They are off on holiday now till the beginning of September so I will take it in for an inspection- swivel housing, wheel bearings etc when they get back. In the meantime he told me to change my brake pads. |
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24th Jul 2019 2:16pm |
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| williamthedog Member Since: 29 Dec 2012 Location: south wales Posts: 3441 
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Your cv joint is on its way out. The clicking is from that. By putting grease into it, it lubricates the ball bearings and the cage they run in.
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24th Jul 2019 2:38pm |
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| CharlieDonuts Member Since: 16 Jun 2019 Location: Illiers Combray Posts: 133
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Well thank you very much William the Dog. So new CV joints from Ashcroft then. I was planning to drive to Spain at the end of August. Ought I replace the CV joints before then? Is it a difficult job to do at home ? Pretty much every workshop near to here will be closed between now and September. I would prefer not to cancel my holidays.
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24th Jul 2019 3:01pm |
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| CharlieDonuts Member Since: 16 Jun 2019 Location: Illiers Combray Posts: 133
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So I am 700 km from home in northern Spain and the front right CV joint is occasionally clicking again on full lock. it’s awfully windy here in Asturias. Do you think it’s OK to drive home or do I need to find a local mechanic double quick. I was waiting for my French mechanic to come back from holidays before fitting Ashcroft parts. I’d prefer to wait but I don’t know how badly CV joints fail after they have started to click. I don’t want to kill myself.
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26th Aug 2019 8:05pm |
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| donmacn Member Since: 07 Nov 2017 Location: Nth Scotland Posts: 1886 
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700kms - 420 miles on old money - IF it's the CV joint, then my thought would be to get it home, but to be canny with it - taking it easy and not charging up the motorway.
Someone more experienced will hopefully come in here, but some LR mechanicals are pretty robust and agricultural, and I'd say the CV joint is one of those parts. They are big, chunky bearings. If it's as you've described, with the noise easing on lubrication, then it's probably also the case that the seals around the half-shaft are gone, allowing the grease to leak into the axle and diff. For my money, a careful run up the road and then do the job properly the way you want to - (but I do also have home recovery on my AA policy!) Donald 1994 Defender 300Tdi 110 SW - owned since 2002 - 230k miles and going strong (The 'rolling restoration' or tinkering thread: http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic58538.html ) 2000 Range Rover P38 4.0L V8 in the past.. RR classic - fitted with 200Tdi 1984 RR classic - V8 with ZF auto box 1993 Discovery 300Tdi not to mention the minis and the Type 2 VW camper... |
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26th Aug 2019 8:16pm |
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| ickle Member Since: 22 Jul 2010 Location: South Vendee Posts: 1854 
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Try to keep off full lock and heavy power through tight bends and it should be fine.
Good luck! |
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26th Aug 2019 8:49pm |
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| CharlieDonuts Member Since: 16 Jun 2019 Location: Illiers Combray Posts: 133
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Thank you. I have some one shot grease bags I’ll take it easy !
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27th Aug 2019 8:30am |
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| hank Member Since: 12 Sep 2016 Location: South Wales Posts: 2325  
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If it only clicks on full lock it will get you home easily, especially if you keep it lubricated. As said just refrain from any undue strain and take it easy > 110 XS Double Cab
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27th Aug 2019 10:24am |
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| CharlieDonuts Member Since: 16 Jun 2019 Location: Illiers Combray Posts: 133
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 Click image to enlarge So I bit the bullet. New half shafts, CV joints and flanges from Ashcroft. In addition my mechanic Francois replaced the swivel joints, the swivel joint pins, all the seals and all the bearings. While he was at it he replaced my front brake discs. So the front end from wheels to diff rebuilt. 2008 with 100,000 miles on the clock. |
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14th Oct 2019 5:28pm |
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| williamthedog Member Since: 29 Dec 2012 Location: south wales Posts: 3441
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Well done, you should be good for quite a few thousand miles now
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14th Oct 2019 7:26pm |
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| Zed Member Since: 07 Oct 2017 Location: In the woods Posts: 3355 
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Those Khan's look great.
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14th Oct 2019 7:47pm |
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| MalteseRover Member Since: 02 Jul 2013 Location: Gozo Posts: 137 
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hi,
Sorry to butt in. I was checking for wheel bearing this evening and noticed that when i try spin the wheel forward or backwards there is a faint clatter at the hub end. (if i got the term correctly) The rotation is short and the sound is heard before the usual clunky diff/shaft/tcase show up. The hubs are sealed for life I was told. It is a 2003 110 model, is it ok to undo the seal to drain out any oil/water if present and refill with suitable grease? what are the properties of the one shot grease so when i head to buy some locally i would know what i am buying. Regards JOseph |
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