TD5 Front wheel bearing adjustment

satchmolips · Oct 24, 2021

Having now read up on this I realise I cant adjust play in front wheel bearings like the old tdi defender as there is no adjusting nut and there is instead a spacer! I have read elsewhere that you can get rid of the spacer in between the bearings and go back to an adjusting nut/locking tab/locknut arrangement as on earlier models. Is that correct? If so, are the adjusting nuts and lock nuts the same?

Def90man · Oct 24, 2021

satchmolips said:
Having now read up on this I realise I cant adjust play in front wheel bearings like the old tdi defender as there is no adjusting nut and there is instead a spacer! I have read elsewhere that you can get rid of the spacer in between the bearings and go back to an adjusting nut/locking tab/locknut arrangement as on earlier models. Is that correct? If so, are the adjusting nuts and lock nuts the same?

I changed my td5 recently to the old type and just pinched two of the big nuts off an old 300tdi axle. Just got new lock tabs for them

EeEk · Oct 24, 2021

You could use the old style nuts.....but why?

Landrover made the wheel bearings idiot proof but you want to go back.........

TD5 Front wheel bearing adjustment

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