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Thanks guys. Just had a look around ebay. There are a few diffs around and price seems reasonable. Took a look at this.... http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=36379 So the job is do-able with some sturdy axle stands it seems. I'll be grateful for your thoughts. Looks like I might have a...

Ok, here we go. Took the prop off and started. All good. Drove it very, very gently off the drive. Still a very bad crunching noise from the back axle. Sometimes a loud bang. Sometimes seemed to seize and needed a few gentle revs to get past it, but always with an extra large crunch. I'd say the...

Hi GrumpyGel. Thanks for that. thats really useful advice. To old to worry about what I cant change... no less annoying though! I'll know whats what later today, although swmbo is telling me there is no way I'm crawling under a landrover on blocks in this weather. Katie is gusting about 70mph...

THere's no way I am ever going to change a tyre on any car without reading the manual in future Nodge. I was going to soo look after this car properly!

Thanks MHM. Totally understand what you might think, you've seen loads of folk with my problem come on here right? There's only so many times you can tell them how it is and stay patient. Lets hope I'm not posting pics of a shattered case tomorrow. Thanks

Thanks GrumpyGel. I actually yearned for my FL all the time I drove my Vitara. That's why I got another one as soon as I could afford a half decent one. I have some land, which is sopping most of the time, and off the beaten track on an unadopted road and I've been rattling around in the tinny...

Just read a thread on another forum where some poor guy had tyres fitted on a FL on the front, IRD died and had a new one for £700+, was told it was due to the tyres. Went back to the tyre fitters who said that was nonsense and they had never heard about fitting new tyres on the back of a FL...

oops, crosspost Stew and Alibro, but thinking on the same lines (mercs and tyre fitters) ! I'm taking the prop out tomorrow Alibro and hope that the oil is not from a cracked case.

I know MHM, none. I'm sure that you know much more about mechanics than me, but even once you know what a vcu does its not obvious that the tyres have to match exactly. I had to take the prop out in my last hippo and was in and out of this forum all the time (its a great forum btw) and never...

Just read this from a post on the same topic from MHM in 2011...... "coz theres a noob every week that can't be arsed to read for themselves, and then there's the ones that have been on for a year and a half and still haven't read anything" ...so I'm another one then! I get he point but who...

Going to spend tomorrow going over the car, but I've been thinking about this all day and something does not feel right. You guys are saying (and I do believe you) that a difference in wheel/tyre diameter of 5mm can/probably will cause up to £1,000s worth of damage to a car. Landrover thinks we...

Thanks Nodge. I saw the diff prices. I was surprised at the price (£500 ish). Would work out cheaper but if it is the diff its not going to be drivable until I fix it. I have a 4X4 specialist breaker near me... he'll give me a call if he gets a hippo in (did something similar with my V6...

Thanks GrumpyGel, that looks like the best case scenario, so I'll keep my fingers crossed! I'll get it up on blocks, weather permitting, tomorrow, and have a good nose around. From what I can see the back diff looked very wet, and has been smelling lately (boiling fluid?), so I'm feeling that...

Hi I read this.... https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/ird-unit-help.195216/ ...does this mean if the IRD is f***ked, I can still drive with the prop out while I get money sorted? And whats a 2WD IRD? Sorry, I know I'm dense but I need to stay on the road if I can. I've tackled most jobs so...

I'll have to take that one on the chin then! No-one to blame but mysellf. The second hippo I've had and didn't know about the tyre thing. But, given there are a few around, you would've thunk that the tire comparny that put them on would know. Dont want to ask this, but, if it is the IRD, how...

Hi all. Sitting in a car park with my 54 plate FL Sport waiting for green flag. Had new tyres on the front (I know, I know!) before Xmas and noisy transmission ever since. Was thinking about going commando this Easter. Today banging and an oily diff and undrivable. What's the chances of getting...

Thats what I thought, but how long does it take for the bloody stuff to turn back to liquid? Its not been so cold this week. I take it I can buy the additive. Seems worth a try and cant make things worse.

Hi All My L series has been sat outside my house since the snow came... exactly the same as last year. Last year it sorted itself ok as soon as the weather warmed up and has run great for the whole year. Got it started tonight with a new battery. When I last drove it it was a bugger to...

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Bugger, bugger! Just spent two hours clearing around the top of the radiator on my L series, (hoses, that funny long thing spiky thing that sits along the top of the rad, fans, front grill etc) and plastered it with leak seal paste. Let it set and now water is p*ssing out faster than I can fill...