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I recently put my 110 into a local Land Rover specialist to have new front wheel bearings fitted as some of you will know from my previous thread. All seemed well until I noticed the usual humming drone from the front offside wheel when turning left at speed. I decided to jack up my front axle...

Looking at the possibility of retrofitting late defender seats into my 110 300TDi defender. I like the look of the Recaro's and was wondering if it is a straight forward swap or does some fabrication work need to be done to support the change. Wanting to possibly change both front and second row...

lol I've owned my Defender for 7 years. Have been around Defenders all my life what with my father having owned them during my childhood and my brother also having owned one for over 10years. I appreciate it isn't likely to be a new age blinded up vehicle and that why I have a 500BHP sports car...

I replaced the bearings initially as the offside was shot and when I noticed the bearing shells were damaged i then checked the wheel play and hence put it down solely to the bearings when in actual fact it was probably a little bit of both the bearings and the swivels. The steering box is being...

I've now had new stub axles, wheel bearings and uprated steering bars and track rod ends. I'm having a new steering box fitted this Friday followed by new swivels. So given that the Landy is 23yrs old I'm not going to get too upset as she will then have a completely overhauled steering setup...

Surely as part of a bearing replacement you would check wheel play post fitment??? No???

not necessarily. if you ask them to change a brake light bulb, do you expect them to check wheel bearings, brake pad thickness etc? Totally not related. If a garage was to rebuild a gearbox due to a damaged sincro I would expect them to not only fix the problem but also advise on any other...

Surely the workshop has a duty of care to inform the customer of any safety concerns with the vehicle, no????

Does anyone know the cost of adjustment of the swivel pin or swivel replacement???

There is a lot of play. Having done some searching on the internet I'm thinking it could be swivel related i.e. maybe swivel pin adjustment is required????

The RTC steering damper was not fitted as a means to a fix but purely as an additional too given the work I was having done already. I will be contacting them on Monday don't you worry as I feel even if it has nothing to do with the work I had done they should have at least informed me of the...

Just checked and its definitely top to bottom albeit both wheels were not of the ground if that makes any difference.

In fact I'm just going to check to confirm if it was just to to bottom to side to side.

Top to bottom

Could you explain what pressing the brake pedal would signify if the wheel wobble then didn't occur?

I didn't check as I was on my own but thinking about it I recon it would as there was no play in the swivels only the hub/discs.

Having done some pre MOT checks myself I had identified that both front wheels had excessive play (gripping tyre top and bottom and at both sides and rocking). So i decided to put my Landy in to a reputable specialist for new wheel bearings and whilst I was at it I also opted for new uprated...

Always. I think it must be breather related.

Whats the best way to check the breather?

Thanks for your constructive input!