Sudden stearing lunge.

110specialvehicle · Jul 21, 2021

Hi folks, i just had a hella fright on the road just now. Driving allong and sudenly and i mean out of nowhere the stearing wheel yanks left.

I thaught id hit somthing but' after looming at dashcam there was nothing.

I drive this road a couple times a day evry day so not unexpected road conditions.

I am lost as at a glance everything looks normal.

v8250 · Jul 21, 2021

Check all steering components for conditions and surety - every nut, bolt, washer, bush and joints including steering column UJ's and steering damper for condition + prybar flex every joint. And check front wheels for any play including swivel joints.

eta: same with rears and A frame bushes, joints, mounting points as rear wheel/suspension failures often inherently appear at front steering faults.

110specialvehicle · Jul 21, 2021

v8250 said:
Check all steering components for conditions and surety - every nut, bolt, washer, bush and joints including steering column UJ's and steering damper for condition + prybar flex every joint. And check front wheels for any play including swivel joints.

eta: same with rears and A frame bushes, joints, mounting points as rear wheel/suspension failures often inherently appear at front steering faults.

Thats greatly appreciated thank you

lightning · Jul 21, 2021

Is the steering alright now, as in, after it jerked left it seemed alright for rest of the journey?

miktdish · Jul 21, 2021

Could be a bearing seizing up on the left side ?
In addition to what @v8250 said ...
Jack each front wheel off the ground and see if it turns freely and with the same amount of force as the other side.
Jack both wheels of the ground and check the effort required to get the other wheel to spin in the opposite direction.

the_wolf · Jul 21, 2021

Sounds like a wheel bearing on its way out

flat · Jul 21, 2021

Yeah my money would be on wheel bearing. Mine was doing this and bump steering occasionally. Wheel bearing sorted it out

110specialvehicle · Jul 23, 2021

Wheelbearing. It went from aye, ill change that to utter trash in no time. Even took my breaks out of action. Thay was worrying. Thanks folks.
Problem diagnosed and in the opporating ward now.

lynall · Jul 23, 2021

I would class defender wheel bearings as consumable items.

flat · Jul 23, 2021

lynall said:
I would class defender wheel bearings as consumable items.

They certainly need repacking regularly

flat · Jul 23, 2021

110specialvehicle said:
Wheelbearing. It went from aye, ill change that to utter trash in no time. Even took my breaks out of action. Thay was worrying. Thanks folks.
Problem diagnosed and in the opporating ward now.

yep mine made my brakes weird aswell

tottot · Jul 23, 2021

lynall said:
I would class defender wheel bearings as consumable items.

Funny thing but the pre Defender models and series have a whole lot fewer problems with wheel bearings.

lynall · Jul 23, 2021

flat said:
They certainly need repacking regularly

When my 200 was my daily I reckon without fail every 5k they needed attention, normally just an adjust up but sometimes a grease and adjust up.

lynall · Jul 23, 2021

tottot said:
Funny thing but the pre Defender models and series have a whole lot fewer problems with wheel bearings.

Iirc a common defender mod was to leave the 1/2 shaft axle seal out to allow diff oil to get to the bearing as per the series models.

lightning · Jul 23, 2021

Does this apply to TD5?

Mine's on 131,000 and the wheel bearings have never been touched, unless the garage did them when the swivel balls
were replaced.
Although even that was 40,000 miles ago

flat · Jul 24, 2021

lynall said:
Iirc a common defender mod was to leave the 1/2 shaft axle seal out to allow diff oil to get to the bearing as per the series models.

Mine does that unintentionally!

lynall · Jul 24, 2021

lightning said:
Does this apply to TD5?

Mine's on 131,000 and the wheel bearings have never been touched, unless the garage did them when the swivel balls
were replaced.
Although even that was 40,000 miles ago

I think TD5 ones are preset jobbies ie no human error involved.

TDI are wing it and guess it, one day I may try and set them up as per the book with a dti gauge, nah I wont!

v8250 · Jul 24, 2021

I used dti on mine, it worked at treat

110specialvehicle · Jul 29, 2021

Fixed the bearing the other day. It was in utter bits.
Dad walked me through it and now ill know for next time.

I can confirm the td5 had a spacer to preset the tension. Hiwever mine has a 50mm nut on the end of the axle that my dad was confused about. My auties o5 td5 doesnt have that.

the_wolf · Jul 29, 2021

110specialvehicle said:
Fixed the bearing the other day. It was in utter bits.
Dad walked me through it and now ill know for next time.

I can confirm the td5 had a spacer to preset the tension. Hiwever mine has a 50mm nut on the end of the axle that my dad was confused about. My auties o5 td5 doesnt have that.

Do you have a picture? The TD5 has a spacer then a single large stake nut which replaces the old two lock nuts that were used before. The stake nut will be 52mm

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