Landy tryed to hit a tree

Was coming home from work last night, down the michelam bends doing about 50, when my front off side wheel locked up solid. I (somehow) managed to keep it on the road but it was realy trying to jump the kerb and go into the trees. On the way to work had heard a slight metalic clunking briefly from that corner, was going to check it out at work but finished at 3am so i didnet bother. Glad i heard it, because when it locked up i immidiatly knew which corner it was and what had happened, so knew how to react, otherwise i think i would be part of the forestry by now.

Will start taking it appart this afternoon, could be a wheel bearing but i suspect its drive related, could the CV joint cause this probelm? The swivil is overdue for a greacing. Oh and the whole affair has wrecked that corners tyre too. :doh:

at least you got out and got home.. good luck with the repairs..

Much more likely to be the wheel bearing than the CV.
If it's siezed solid, you'll probably be needing a new Stub Axle too.

oh how we love our landys
hope its no too expensive to sort

Just pulled the drive flange off and there is some seriously twisted metal in there. No doubt it will need a new stub axle. Ill renew all the nuts washers bearings and seals too.

It released when i reversed it, then i drove it home at 10 mph.

Cant get the wheel bearing nut off, there welded on. The lock washer is twisted and streached and has obviously been very hot, and there are chunckes of metal jamed in the bottom of the wheel bearing. May have to dismantel it at the swivil by taking the pins out, and loose everyting wheel side of it.

Same thing happened to me a while back, i was thrown out into oncoming traffic and it was a wheel bearing - fookin shat meself! (Not as bad as the saxo doing 90 coming towards me though!)

If the stub axle is fooked as you describe just grind through the nuts carefully-ish and split them with a sharp chisel. Do you want to make loads of work foryourself taking out the swivel pins? Jai

jai_landrover said:

If the stub axle is fooked as you describe just grind through the nuts carefully-ish and split them with a sharp chisel. Do you want to make loads of work foryourself taking out the swivel pins? Jai

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Im gona try that tmorrow, i dident think the grinder would get the second nut without wrecking the hub. Consediring that the wheel seazed up i dont know if the hubs even going to come off once the nuts are off. Still, its worth a try.

A the joys - it's a test - they try and break you mentaly and financially then they just try and bloody kill you! You passed!

Pictures of the twisted metal please!

Yes lots of pics! you should get in with a small grinding disk if not drill backwards through the side of the nut and split it with a sharp chisel (by now you have probably guessed it that I like my sharp chisels) you might get away with the hub so there is no point destroying it for the sake of another 10 mins work. Jai

a lad at work had this happen to him on tuesday in his scooby , it was the wheel bearing that seized up , and totally damaged driveshaft too. cost him £150 to get towed about 35miles home , was not a happy bunny!

discomania said:

A the joys - it's a test - they try and break you mentaly and financially then they just try and bloody kill you! You passed!

Pictures of the twisted metal please!

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YES YES !!!

PICCIES!!

We like PICCIES!!

CharlesY

I took some pictures earlier i'll uplaod them at some point. Ive managed to grind of the nuts and pry them off with a crow bar, they have all welded together and the back one has stripped its thread and welded to the stub axle. But now there off as expected the hub wont come off, ive tryed putting the hi-lift between the chassis and the hub and it still wont budge, and that was at least a ton of pressure. I havent given up on it yet though.

have you taken the stub axle off??? sureley its just a case of a new stub axle and inspect the shaft and CV if thats all good then refit with new bits. or a

Possibly diff incase all that strain got transfered through

jai_landrover said:

Possibly diff incase all that strain got transfered through

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Could be diff, but given the state of the wheel bearing it could definatly have been what did it. I think the half shaft would have sheered if it had come from the diff, and i did an oil change on the front axle a fiew weeks ago, and it had a full volume of good oil so doesent seem like that caused it. ( yes i did fill it up properly with the right oil!)

i mean the problem i.e the wheel locking up. cause: failed wheel bearing, could in turn suddenly put a hell of alot of strain on the diff center jai

jai_landrover said:

i mean the problem i.e the wheel locking up. cause: failed wheel bearing, could in turn suddenly put a hell of a lot of strain on the diff center jai

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Absolutely ... for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

And in this case the ACTION was the sudden braking of the wheel as the bearing locked-up, the RE-ACTION being the application of a huge opposite torque force somewhere.

When any one wheel seizes up in a permanent 4x4 set-up, the other three wheels fight back as the RE-action. The half-shaft of the affected wheel and the nearest Diff are the bits most likely to suffer.

CharlesY

thats what i meant lol cheers Charlesy its hard to type alot on my phone Jai