HeywoodFloyd
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I know defenders are forever making strange noises, but this one was new, very loud and worrying.
Basically it sounded like a mixture of squeaky springs crossed with someone scraping a black board. It was incredibly loud, and was coming from the rear somewhere (1987 90 300tdi). I was doing 30mph, cruising along a flat smooth road at the time. I pulled over after about 10 seconds of the noise continuing. I came to a full stop, at which point the noise stopped, so I left the engine running when I got out, inspected everything at the back, all looked well, so I got back in and started to pull away slowly - nothing. It didn't come back for the 20 minutes drive home either.
I'm not a fan of intermittent, phantom problems like this - they can be a warning sign that's almost impossible to interpret sometimes.
My current theory is it's axle/diff related. This is only based on the fact that my rear diff was leaking at the seal recently, and before changing the seal, I tried clearing out the breather pipe, which seem,s to have to stopped the leak - I topped the oil level up a bit and left it as is for now.
Other than that - I'm at a complete loss as to what on earth it was? Any ideas? I know it's a bit vague, and could be all sorts of things, but I thought I'd see.
Basically it sounded like a mixture of squeaky springs crossed with someone scraping a black board. It was incredibly loud, and was coming from the rear somewhere (1987 90 300tdi). I was doing 30mph, cruising along a flat smooth road at the time. I pulled over after about 10 seconds of the noise continuing. I came to a full stop, at which point the noise stopped, so I left the engine running when I got out, inspected everything at the back, all looked well, so I got back in and started to pull away slowly - nothing. It didn't come back for the 20 minutes drive home either.
I'm not a fan of intermittent, phantom problems like this - they can be a warning sign that's almost impossible to interpret sometimes.
My current theory is it's axle/diff related. This is only based on the fact that my rear diff was leaking at the seal recently, and before changing the seal, I tried clearing out the breather pipe, which seem,s to have to stopped the leak - I topped the oil level up a bit and left it as is for now.
Other than that - I'm at a complete loss as to what on earth it was? Any ideas? I know it's a bit vague, and could be all sorts of things, but I thought I'd see.
