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4WD engage and disengage worked well today so I have her booked onto a ramp on Wednesday so ‘we’ can get to grips with all the moving bits and tight nuts and bolts whilst standing up and not crawling around. I’ll be glad to get this pain in the backside mystery solved.

I am so sure 4WD disengaged last time out I am going to check again as the science indicates you may have a point. I’ll get out into the quieter roads in the morning, twist the hubs round and purposefully engage for a couple of miles and then methodically disengage. There is a classic car...

Dippypud. Your comment made me curse loudly and made me retrace my steps for the last few weeks. I ticked off the oil changes and grease nipples …………. and remembered why I was wearing two quite hefty plasters way back when. The top nut/oil filler despite being cleaned, oiled and cleaned again...

Ah but add any of rotating, intermittent, staccato, rhythmic, deafening, occasional, speed induced or gear change related and you have yourself a ticket. Personally I am glad to have moved away from shuddering but rotating grind still vexes me. Are you back on the road yet?

Orjip. Technically No but with all the nuts checked and tightened, oils changed, (in part to check the discharged oil for clues), grease topped up, bearings checked, handbrake and housing checked, hubs engaged and disengaged and numerous diversions when under the chassis I am beyond help. There...

I thought my jobs were a saga but yours tops them. I hope these work, I’m sure they were checked before being sent over…….

Thanks for that tip. It’s definitely a rotating noise from something and can start after a mile or after ten miles but fades with gentle nursing. If I spend anymore time on trying to nail it down I’ll end up polishing the springs with a toothbrush.

I feel your pain regarding never ending jobs. ‘We’ still have not quite solved the occasional rumbling noise problem despite following up on all the tips on here so in a moment of weakness and a loss of concentration I started sanding down the scuffed up and slightly dented corner of the driver...

Morning, The front prop, more specifically the UJ’s, were pinged mostly on the process of elimination. At one point I had the middle seat out and I was certain the clunk/shudder came from directly below, ie the front prop, as by then we had already eliminated the handbrake, tyres, suspension and...

WoodyO. I’ll do the wheel, prop shaft test as well but it will be a roadside job so I’ll need to pick my moment. After I have ticked everything off we will go round the block a few times to warm her up, about ten miles seems to be the catalyst.

Thanks. I’ll try that tomorrow. I haven’t had the need to engage 4WD for quite a while but I can certainly check the freewheeling hubs are properly set on ‘2’ and the levers have not slipped with a torch in a minute or two.

I changed the front prop shaft, all went well until tightening the jubilee clip on the gaiter, and pumped everything that moved with grease. There are no tell tale signs of failure on the original shaft but I don’t have a big enough vice to secure it in so I can properly wiggle the UJ’s about...

Thanks for that. I think the collective train of thought is that the UJ is a spent force so it’s got to go but having a poke around underneath armed with a stiff brush, the grease gun, WD40 and some rags was quite enlightening and enabled to “see what’s what”. She is in good nick but I was...

Ok I’ll look at the handbrake system tomorrow. It works fine in that there is no slack and it’s not tight. Am I looking at loosening it up a bit? Our service lane was clear today, for a change, so the UJ’s got some attention. Ten minutes cleaning them up then 25 minutes trying to get the pesky...

Thanks for that Kermit. Thanks to all the advice and options given on here we are fairly certain it’s the front propshaft UJ. I can’t see any damage, staining or other debris but the noises and the timings, and indeed the smell of hot metal, all fit. I have looked at the tools I need to get...

Thanks for that. Logistically it would be easier to replace the whole unit and refurb the existing one at my leisure. I have been the custodian for nearly twenty years and have only ever greased and cleaned the UJ’s so they have done a shift. I seem to have so little down time these days and...

Thanks Tottot. I have a horrible feeling we are at stage 4. There is no discolouring, as far as I can see even with a torch gripped between my teeth. The canary chirping, nice analogy, might have happened yesterday so it’s probably best I sort it. Thanks everybody, it’s been a learning curve. I...

Thanks for this. For my own piece of mind, so long as I can get the bits from Brookwells, I might get stuck into this over the weekend. I’ll hold fire for a bit though in case the forum guys have a diagnosis.

It took a little while to get out of Exeter today but up and down the gears, stop, start and walking pace in queues seemed fine. However after seven uninterrupted miles some horrible clunking noises came from below which eased a bit when I slowed down to about 25 from 30, not much at all. For...