disco steering play

My td5 discovery has about 5-6 cm of play on the steering wheel, i had a search and found it could be the ujs or the ball joint at the front. I had a check and all the ujs are turning in unison and the ball joint only has a small bit of play. Does this mean that it has to be the steering box? Don't really wanna go through the hassle of changing it if it won't help.

I have the same on mine can turn the wheel 5 or 6 cm's i have replaced all the ball joints as they were shot anway, i guessed it was just UJ play.

I thought that at first but there is no play, they all turn with the slightest turn of the steering wheel. That's why I think it might be the box.

try adjusting the steering box. just done mine and its spot on now

You can adjust the steering box, there is a large nut with a screw in the middle, if you slacken the nut it enables you to turn the screw this will take up any free play in the steering box, the nut is located on top of the box, if this fails to work its a new box I'm afraid. The best place to buy the box is direct from Adwest as a recon box from land rover
is dearer. hope this helps.

Cheers, will try adjusting the steering box later, will let you know how I get on.

xeon said:

Cheers, will try adjusting the steering box later, will let you know how I get on.

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Did it make any difference?

nigel.

I havnt tried it yet, waiting for the weather. Will give it a go and report back tomorrow.

xeon said:

I havnt tried it yet, waiting for the weather. Will give it a go and report back tomorrow.

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The reason I ask is that the steering on my TD5 is a bit vague, the only thing I haven't checked is the steering box so will be interested to know if you get an improvement. It could of course be just the way TD5's are, anything I've driven over the last few years has either been newish or no more than 2 or 3 years old, my TD5 is 9 years old.

Nigel

The TD5 is really sensitive to front tyres. I was chasing a vague steering issue on mine for ages and as a last resort I swapped the back tyres with the front and that totally sorted it. The previous owner had let the front tyres wear unevenly.

Cheers, Andy

Cheers for the info andymach, I have just got the disco and realised that the font tyres are unevenly worn, the tracking was something I was going to sort out after the vague steering. Il try n change the wheels round tomorrow if adjusting the steering box doesn't work.

Well I finally got around to sorting this out. Nothing I did would fix it so I fitted a new steering box (took me two weekends!) but its all fixed now and has absolutely no play :clap2:

I can turn my steering wheel about 2-3 inches from side to side while driving and the Landy 200TDi still cruises along in a dead ahead position!

I guess there is a steering box issue because all the joints and bushes are fine.

It doesn't really bother me, I just have to prepare myself when corners come up and know to turn the wheel a bit more!

After all, Land Rovers were never meant to be Ferrari's anyway!