freeland IRD, VC, Rear Diff ?

Carlosfandango1st · Apr 15, 2008

Hi All, need some advice. Wife pulled into a petrol station, fuelled up and tried to pull away and there was, apparently an almighty noise from underneath the car. I got there, had a look and saw there was a large ring of metal hanging around the prop shaft ( i believe this is a part of the vibration damper). She did say it was making a noise on the way and there has been a creaking coming from the back for some time which I thought were the diff mounts which do need replacing. I tried moving it from the forecourt and it felt like something was restraining the car, then with a clunk and a bang and would free itself for a little while then repeat. In the end the RAC took the Freeloader and me back home. Reading on the foums about the VC test I had a go and the wheel would turn a small amount with a large screwdriver stuffed into the UJ and hefty amount of force from my foot. Not convince VC was ok, I removed it with the propshafts to make it into 2wd as I read on these forums. Tried to reverse out the drive and still got this retardation and clunking. My thoughts now turn to the IRD or Diff - Any thoughts on how to test either - could it be something else ? I have a strange prenomition about empty banks account and loaded credit cards are on the way!!

Cheers

bandit600 · Apr 15, 2008

Carlosfandango1st said:
Hi All, need some advice. Wife pulled into a petrol station, fuelled up and tried to pull away and there was, apparently an almighty noise from underneath the car. I got there, had a look and saw there was a large ring of metal hanging around the prop shaft ( i believe this is a part of the vibration damper). She did say it was making a noise on the way and there has been a creaking coming from the back for some time which I thought were the diff mounts which do need replacing. I tried moving it from the forecourt and it felt like something was restraining the car, then with a clunk and a bang and would free itself for a little while then repeat. In the end the RAC took the Freeloader and me back home. Reading on the foums about the VC test I had a go and the wheel would turn a small amount with a large screwdriver stuffed into the UJ and hefty amount of force from my foot. Not convince VC was ok, I removed it with the propshafts to make it into 2wd as I read on these forums. Tried to reverse out the drive and still got this retardation and clunking. My thoughts now turn to the IRD or Diff - Any thoughts on how to test either - could it be something else ? I have a strange prenomition about empty banks account and loaded credit cards are on the way!!

Cheers

try this

jack the car up on one side and turn the ird input shaft by hand, if it feels lumpy its had it

thats the way i look at them
good luck

Carlosfandango1st · Apr 16, 2008

Jacked up the side, turned the ird shaft and it turns........right up until it stops

. I can give the wheel a turn and it'll turn some more but there's a point, around where it locks where there's some slack (almost feels like there's some teeth missing !) The locking is more pronounce in one direction than the other.
I'm getting a strong feeling it's fooked.

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