no problem rooster and beast of bodmin your geting ****ing boring if you aint got anything better to say just stay on the defender sight and annoy them!!!!!!

3.5k should get you a good td4,i just bought a 2002 td4 serengeti for that,75k and only 2 owners and service history,bmw engine good,they dont rust they have their problems but im on my second now and love them,check the prop shaft is fitted a lot of people take them off claiming its for economy...

ha ha guys,the petrol one has been sound and i wouldnt have bought another if it had gave me hassle,its on eblag if anyones intrested? and ive got a set of light guards on my spare freebie,but the missus wont let me fit them to the newer one!!

hers pics of my new and old freebies:D

ok thats it fixed,i just taped it up as it appears the hard top wasnt fitted properly but cant seem to get it any closer to sensor i looked at my spares one and the hard top was a lot closer fit and held the button right down,and it was a fairly easy job the panel between the side windows pops...

thanks russ,as i said will check it out tomorow,i presume i need to take the interior panel off,i read some where if you tape over the sensor it then thinks hard top is on?? correct??

ive searched!! i realise it has something to do with the sensor for hard top,never had a problem with the old freelander but i never had the top off,the guy i bought it from said he took the top of regular to keep kids amused!! i will take the interior panel off at the rear drivers quarter...

ok been on here for a while with my 1999 1.8 petrol 2 door which has been great,so now have an 02 serengeti td4 2 door with 75k miles and 1 previous owner and well pleased with it,but i have one problem that may be caused by the state of the roads over here iv noticed some times the tailgate...

yes it has hdc/abs etc they both do,i was just wondering if anyone new for sure about the length and if splines were the same but will try and measure them tomorrow

as above will the front drive shafts from a 2001 td4 fit a 1999 1.8 petrol?? before i start to remove them

thats only on the 1.8 petrol and the di rover engine,the slave cylinder is inside the gear box bell housing on the gearbox mainshaft on td4,i think you have done well to get a slipping clutch to last that long!!!!! and im sure you can get it done for a lot less than that if you by the parts of...

check all drive shafts for play on inner cv,as i said the noise isnt always where you think it is!!!!

it is hard to pin point noises on a fl due to design of the drive train,if you removed the complete prop and vcu and drove about and noise still there then it isnt the prop bearings!!

its suppose to move in and out but if it was moving up and down that would cause a noise possibly,but it is more likely to be the propshaft bearings,you cant always tell by looking or seeing if theres play in them unless they are totaly knackered

probably prop bearings,you want feel any play,due to design of freeklander the noise travels through the drive train

inner cv joint,jack it up and grab shaft and try to move it up and down not in and out if theres any movement thats your problem mine doing it and going to get new shaft of eblag

the rod going in to gearbox at the slave cylinder probably siezed get plenty wd 40 sprayed on it!! and whirring could be prop shaft bearings both pretty common and easily fixed

i would say you are geting well ripped off there,yes you can use a second hand one but i would recommend a new one i have done abs sensors on my td5 disco before but not on my fl yet but its is something you can do yourself if you can hold a spanner lol i dont know how much they are but i just...

freelander vcu paranoia can be an expensive thing lol

on mine there is a washer either side of each bearing?