TD5 Tracking

Jason2 said:

Hi

Never had this problem before on a Land Rover, my Disco Td5 is eating away the inside of the tread on the front tyres.

Any help or advice as I'm a bit loath to take it to be checked as in the past with car's it's not made a sh*t of difference.

Thanks in advance

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ratty said:

both tyres?

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Jason2 said:

Yes!

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ratty said:

I'd say that it may be a track rod end or track rod itself is bent if it's doing both tyres.

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Jason2 said:

Cheers Ratty

Checked ball joints/track rods and all's good! been doing it for a while as the spare is worn on the inside too!

Gunna take it to have the tracking checked next week.

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ratty said:

when you corner does the steering feel a little bit to precise?

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Jason2 said:

I put some second hand tyres on, 5 months later and 5k + the bastides still wearing on the inside

Made a bar up with threaded rod and measured my mates toe out on his TD5,1.5 mm ish, then measured mine, the same as.

The book says 0 to 2mm toe out so I have closed mine to O & swapped rear tyres onto the front.

Any thoughts? other ideas?

Kin pishes me off when tyres wear like this, my last TDI used to do 50k + on the same set of tyres with all the same wear.

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Nigel1943 said:

Wheel bearings, shock absorbers?

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foss said:

Bearings rare-whole hub assembly & dont go very often, especially both...although youve checked the steering arms I would still probably be tempted to change them, and the damper

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CharlesY said:

Now I think he needs to check the CAMBER of the wheels VERY carefully.

If either a top or bottom balljoint (hub swivels) is loose or slack or worn in any way, the whole wheel and tyre can lean IN at the top, and out at the bottom, and that is likely to scrub the insides of the tyres.

You need to find a dead flat and level place, and use a really good spirit level held vertical to find out whether the wheels are cambered IN or OUT. Tyre pressures should be correct, and you should check both sides several times after rolling a quarter of a tyre turn each time.

POSITIVE camber is when the TOP of the tyres are OUT relative to the bottom. \ /


NEGATIVE camber is when the BOTTOM of the tyres are out relative to the top / \

USUALLY, cars including Landies are set up with some POSITIVE CAMBER. The spirit level should lean OUT at the top - but take care if the fat tyres are bulging near the bottom.

If your one shows ANY signs of NEGATIVE camber, there's possibly a problem the experts haven't found, relating to camber. Jack it up and check the swivels.

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