WARNING: FREELANDER SPARES VCU's

Freelaner said:

when my prop was off i had it in front wheel drive and it handled horribly.

there must be a smidgeon of drive to the rear.....or is it the dragging effect

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Nah. It's pixie dust.

Hippo said:

Nah. It's pixie dust.

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hurruuummmmpppphhhhh

Hippo said:

The press were told mondeo man was the victim, shorry sales targettype person LR wanted to sell to. Traditional vague steering on 4x4's wouldn't appeal. Hence the bias to the front. It is noticeable when you remove the prop that Freelander feel more “free”. Certainly is on mine. With it being the v6 you only have to feather it and the front wheels squeal with prop removed. With 4x4 you don't get this.

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never found disco rr etc vague on steering ,only when worn ,only confirms what i was told then then which was before fl were introduced

Freelaner said:

hurruuummmmpppphhhhh

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Shoulda painted it red

Diesel Do said:

Shoulda painted it red

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tiz painted black and re-con it's working like a dream

i couldn't take the risk or the drama of it busting the IRD again

2x4 or 4x4?

Mines mud brown

not much point using a Land Rover that can't power all it's wheels.

it is 4wd

Yupp

jamesmartin said:

never found disco rr etc vague on steering ,only when worn ,only confirms what i was told then then which was before fl were introduced

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Think I read about it in James Taylors Freelander book. Also LRO mag history sections.

jamesmartin said:

never found disco rr etc vague on steering ,only when worn ,only confirms what i was told then then which was before fl were introduced

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I had a RangeRover in the early 80s - a great lumbering baby elephant of a thing - incredible imprecise steering.

You had to start turning the wheel well before a corner. It had huge suspension travel, so had fearsome roll on the corners as well.

Best driven sedately - so not for me.

S.

they are a bit different since

Can we argue about VCUs again? It was fun

Ok, so as a newbie here to a quite nice 1.8 late 2000 xreg ES on what I now understand to be an amazing 86k, can someone tell me how much it would cost me to get a local mechanic to get the VCU off and on again? In between that I'll be posting it off to the great Bell Engineering. I'm guesing at this mileage (also feeling stiff on full reverse turn etc) it's probably well and truly fecked!

Although I must admit I haven't done the jack one wheel test yet.

My local garage charged me for 2 hours labour to remove the VCU and the props, separate the bits (that's the tricky part involving heat and big hammers as the splines rust up) and refit with new mounts/bearings.

Even with care they will probably wreck the old bearings getting them off.

False economy not to fit new ones anyway as you can get a pair of genuine GKN mounts with FAG bearings for under £30 from Foundry4X4

Singvogel.

Sorry to resurrect an old topic but do you mean this seller I found on ebay?
LAND ROVER FREELANDER VISCOUS COUPLING VCU TD4 DIESEL NEW GKN UNIT TOR000010 | eBay

Big Uli said:

Sorry to resurrect an old topic but do you mean this seller I found on ebay?
LAND ROVER FREELANDER VISCOUS COUPLING VCU TD4 DIESEL NEW GKN UNIT TOR000010 | eBay

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I would say so yes. Better off getting a good recon unit and new bearings .

Far better of
£200 for a recon unit is a much better price and Bell's come with lots of recommendations.

For that sort of money you could buy the bearings and VCU, change it yourself and then have plenty of cash left.
Don't take much convincing me where to get my bits when the time comes