It's most noticeable on cheap speakers - quite distinct on a £60 android pad, less so on a laptopI can’t really hear anything? Just a nice sounding td5, although as said the gear stick is shaking a bit but some do? Have you checked your down pipe off the manifold?
Thanks @tottot will do... yeah I thought there was a lot of play in the gear stick as well but planned to sort that out when I fit a synchro shift as need a bit more room now I’ve fitted a double din.Try the same test you did [ running up through the gears ] with the transfer box in neutral. That gearstick is shaking a lot.
I can’t really hear anything? Just a nice sounding td5, although as said the gear stick is shaking a bit but some do? Have you checked your down pipe off the manifold?
Thanks @Brown... a few hours of work have gone into the interior. I’d love to take credit for it but it’s my 12 year old daughter that’s has the creative design license... I just have to pay for it and do the workWell, the first thing to note is what a posh interior you have. Gear lever gaiter with real stitching and some sort of touch screen panel on the dash centre console.
There seems to be a kind of clattery noise, which I think is what you're concerned about. With my old dual mass flywheel I used to get something similar, for example if I was accelerating hard to join motorway traffic and held it in 4th up to about 60 mph. Once I got to 5th and into overdrive it quietened down a lot. The DMF is full of springs and rattly bits of sheet metal and they get looser and rattlier as they age. How long ago was yours last replaced?
You can usually move the two parts against one another by hand when they're new, so that's not a problem. It's when they actually get loose that it can become a nuisance.
thanks @Discodevon... makes sense and certainly value your advice (and everyone else that has responded) as you guys understand these things better than me... plus it’s always a bonus not having spending money unless absolutely necessary.I wouldn’t be getting the clutch and flywheel changed until it starts slipping, if it isn’t broke don’t fix it!
Although the downpipe and the oils on the other hand, look into doing them fairly sharpish, and please don’t go overlooking the grease points like most people do
There used to be a wonderful passage in the old Haynes manual for the Series 2 where it discussed whether it was worth rebuilding the transmission. This, apparently, had to be weighed up against the amount of noise and inconvenience the driver was prepared to put up with.
General pretty happy to put up with if you guys think it isn’t anything to be overly worried about. This is my 1st Defender (albeit have owned two Disco’s before and being ex forces have plenty of experience trying to break Defenders with varying degrees of success). I think having found a few things that have been bodged or neglected by the previous owner, I’m now just over sensitive to anything that doesn’t seem the norm... but then I guess there’s the problem... what’s the norm for a Defender![]()
Hydraulic clutch? Could be a very quick fix if the bleed nipple has given up
Thanks @kermit_rr ... off to go and see what I can find!Quick and dirty, check the hydraulic level, pump the clutch a could of times and see if the level goes down. . I'm sure someone will be along with better advice soon enough