On or around Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:27:23 +0000 (UTC), "Larry Shaw"
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>Yep it's a whole subject of its own - lost track of how many Range Rovers
>and Discovery's have been inverted due to the runaway build up of front end
>instability --- quite few fatalites as well - but Landrover deny
>it................. I lost a RR on the A12 in Essex, another RR in
>Oxfordshire.......Disco started to show signs ..........
If you drive something which ain't roadworthy, they you deserve to end up
upside down in the hedge. To get the sort of instability you're describing
would, IMHO, require major wear in several components or systems at once.
I've driven various LRs with more or less worn steering - worn joints in the
drag link makes it a bit vague in a straight line, shot steering damper can
give a high (about 2-3 Hz) frequency shimmy on hitting bumps, worn joints in
the track rod can make it wandery too, or can make for inconsistent steering
- however, none of these singly unless very worn showed any signs of making
it go fatally unstable at legal speeds. In the case of the 110 damper, it
was totally shot - didn't make that much odds, asides from the shimmy as
described, but that died out quite quickly and didn't continue once you'd
got off the bumps.
I suggest a bit of maintenance... I noticed a slight iffyness in one of the
discos the other day, and sure enough, drag link balljoint has about a mm or
2 of play in it, so it's due for replacement as soon as the new one comes.
--
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