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Aren’t they different lengths, left to right ?

I think you may have great difficulty removing the driveshaft as it is. The hub nut is tightened to a huge amount of newton whatzits. To undo it, you need a breaker bar with a scaffold pole sized extension - and then possibly use the engine to...

With regards to the VCU giving no resistance, probably broken CV and... When a 1 wheel up test is done, it tries to turn a rear wheel. The rear wheel is directly connected to the IRD via the rear diff and props. Once into the IRD it is...

The VCU test carried out was the OWU test. No IRD connection, test shows no resistance to rear wheel turning.

The pic you posted is the IRD. This pic shows the IRD on the hidden left face of that pic which is where it bolts to the gearbox... You can see at the bottom left are 2 splined shafts - 1 that goes inside the other. The bigger shaft takes...

If you remove the prop and have no drive then either the splines to the LH wheel have stripped of the diff has managed to break catastrophically - which would usually mean a shattered IRD case. However, if the VCU spins with no resistance - it...

Personally, I'd prefer a dongle and app. You may have more of a setup, you have to pair the 2 with bluetooth, but you get a bigger display and don't have just a couple of buttons that you have to work out what they do at different times and were...

If its a generic code, I suppose it could mean lots of things, but this is a specific case with a successful outcome (stopped the code being thrown)... https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/help-what-did-i-do.300807/page-4#post-3757856

Hi, you haven't put the link/pic in - but any plug in dongle that is described as ELM327 should work - bare in mind they are usually cheap Chinese tat - so possibly they won't! I mention the Torque app - I know this has a really cute/fancy...

Sounds dodgy. Are you sure the original driveshaft was a genuine LR one? Has the car had a lift?

You can't cock anything up by plugging in an ODBII reader and looking at the information it displays to you. It might just give you a better understanding of how your car works, or is failing. Which is, after all, why people come on here. A £5...

Erm, you could always take the lift out so that the CVs run at the angles they are supposed to. On the back, I suppose you could lower the diff by 60mm.... and hope the UJs on the prop shaft don't give up or the diff gets collected by a rock...

remove the lp input hose from the hp pump .. turn on ignition that's 1 way .. the fuel regulator on the hp could be sticking .. and though the fault code for that shows on a 'hawkeye' scanner, other readers might not show it .. that happened to...

So you don't want to get pulled by plod for not having a MOT, but for 6 months you've been willing to kill that kid who stepped out onto a zebra crossing on a rainy day? Put yourself at lesser risk than that kid, just drive it.

Scrapyard could be your best bet. You may get lucky. Mine is well worn and was picked up once as an advisory a few years ago, but not in the last few years. I managed to find a decent one in the scrap yard a few years ago but have refrained from...

Why would you need to trailer the car? The Amigos should not stop the car being driven.

Yeh, the Amigos are not unique to Freelander, but its not common to many cars, so yeh, is suitable to that thread. :cool: The point I was making is that the HDC switch I do not think can throw the Amigos - it is broken, it just can't be...

If the Amigos are on, the ABS ECU is detecting something and there must be a code (presumably). Unless there's a problem with the instrument panel. On my '99, the Amigo LEDs are directly connected to wires from the ABS ECU, but on your 2000+...

HDC switch is the 1st gear switch? I think not - they are separate switches. Don't think the HDC switch can throw the Amigos, at least it can't on my '99... pretty sure its a simple on/off switch. Granted they fail, the wire falls off and you...

You would have to come at it from above actually, but yes, I was in the boot space poking my bent screwdriver around, and my niece was outside peeking down the gap in the window rubber guiding me.. Luckily somehow we prevailed. Anyway, the joy...

Nice result. Must have been very satisfying when it went 'click' and the door opened :D Didn't notice that hole, it must have been facing your access, so much easier to get at than coming at it from below.

Last night I looked again at the new latch, and found that indeed the part at the top that you arrowed above could be raised and it did release the latch irrespective of the rod at the bottom. First thing I did once my niece arrived with the...

Road trip 399m to pick my new project up 😃 Towing a trailer with the car on for over 1/2 of it The light just came on so not bad MPG Never really towed much past local but I must admit what a joy the Freelander is I was dreading it with the...

I think the iCarSoft readers have problems with the 2001 cars. The early F1s used Wabco ABS then Teves Mk20 was used for a short period between 2000 and 2002 before shifting to Teves Mk25. Its these Mk20 cars (like yours) it has problems with...

This is it, just temporary, but works really well!

Nice video. So, it look like you have to rotate the piece he has between his fingers in this pic (anti clockwise in this pic)... You might be able to do it by poking something up from where the rod to the solenoid goes (maybe remove the...