VCU is it ok ?

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on the subject of VCU's, My freelander has got a recon one from bell and i am confident it is working well (why wouldnt it) but on full lock on my 2000 the inside tyre scrubs slightly. I put it down to thats what its supposed to do. My missus on the other hand has a 05 with the different ratio's in the IRD. Just the same amount of rear wheel scrubbing. Do all freelanders scrub the inner rear wheel?
 
O.k. guys so I've got the back wheel in the air, I haven't got a long bar but going to borrow one later. I have turned the wheel by hand and with a short bar on one of the wheel nuts. It turns slowly and needs a fair bit of pressure but feels to turn smoothly. Is this how it should be. I've seen a guy do same on you tube and it looks about same as mine.
 
Probably best to should use a bar of 1m or 1.2m length and a weight of 5 or 8 kg so we can compare it to the other results.
Then see how long it takes for the bar to travel 90 degrees, say from 1:30 to 4:30.
 
Done the test. Not very technical I'm afraid but here's what happened. Just under 1 meter bar, just under 5 kg weight, the wheel turned slowly and weight dropped smoothly through about 90 degrees to the floor. From what I've read I'm happy with the result, what do you guys think ?
 
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