gareth123
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Good evening
I spent the day doing my rear UJ and now I have a Freelander with no vibrations. Yipee!
Observations:
1) The UJ didn't seem that bad bolted up to the diff but there was some play. In fact over the last few months I have had vibrations on and off sometimes worse sometimes OK. Yet when the whole lot was off I could see it was really well and truly shot with one of the cups having no roller bearings left at all! Strange then that it had only the intermittent symptoms.
2) I dd the job taking just the rear part of the prop off. I had to drive backwards and forwards a couple of times to get the right angle for accesing the bolt on the VCU spline but other than that it was easier than taking the whole prop and VCU down. The rear came of the VCU very easily - I suspect the front would be a lot more difficult.
3) I followed Busterbus's instructions to change the UJ http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f41/uj-renewal-59812.html
Extremely helpful! Thanks. In practice I found it more difficult than I anticipated. Getting the old joint out was brutal - lots of cussing and hammering. Inserting the new joint was also demanding and I needed to move the caps around in the vice to ensure everything was going in squarely. Yes - I needed a big vice and thank you IrishRover. Thank you too Nodge for your post about dismantling the prop in bits - it worked for me at the rear end
Glad it is fixed and I have the result I wanted.
Gareth
I spent the day doing my rear UJ and now I have a Freelander with no vibrations. Yipee!
Observations:
1) The UJ didn't seem that bad bolted up to the diff but there was some play. In fact over the last few months I have had vibrations on and off sometimes worse sometimes OK. Yet when the whole lot was off I could see it was really well and truly shot with one of the cups having no roller bearings left at all! Strange then that it had only the intermittent symptoms.
2) I dd the job taking just the rear part of the prop off. I had to drive backwards and forwards a couple of times to get the right angle for accesing the bolt on the VCU spline but other than that it was easier than taking the whole prop and VCU down. The rear came of the VCU very easily - I suspect the front would be a lot more difficult.
3) I followed Busterbus's instructions to change the UJ http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f41/uj-renewal-59812.html
Extremely helpful! Thanks. In practice I found it more difficult than I anticipated. Getting the old joint out was brutal - lots of cussing and hammering. Inserting the new joint was also demanding and I needed to move the caps around in the vice to ensure everything was going in squarely. Yes - I needed a big vice and thank you IrishRover. Thank you too Nodge for your post about dismantling the prop in bits - it worked for me at the rear end
Glad it is fixed and I have the result I wanted.
Gareth
