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Thanks for the good advice but I am on thin ice with my wife already because she wants the white one out of the yard so it will be a "challenge" to spend another entire weekend on it. And it's probably irrational but I am worried that I will introduce a problem to the grey one which is driving...

I am probably not explaining right. The grey Freelander was is better condition but it was missing the prop shaft and VCU entirely. To get it registered, I pulled the propshaft from the white Freelander and used a freshly refurbished VCU that I bought online. The grey one now runs well. Now I...

I used the prop shaft from this (white) Freelander on my other one (grey) to get the grey one registered. Some guy from Perth had a rebuilt VCU from Bell Engineering that he didn't use so I used that VCU in the grey Freelander, leaving me with an extra V6 VCU from the white one that I am...

Well, swapped in the V6 VCU with the Td4 tailshaft and still a thunking over 30 kmh. Not as bad but still there. Argh!!!

I just drove it 500m down the street under the cover of darkness but it probably starts at around 30 kmh. It isn't a loud noise but it just sounds like something is out of whack and then gets faster as I picked up a little speed. The tailshaft and V6 VCU from this Freelander (white) were working...

OK, the damper is still in one piece so I guess it isn't that. Yes, I just drove the car down the street (50 kmh, tops) and the thunks got quicker, the faster I went.

Damn, I put the Td4 tailshaft including the damper into the V6 and now I am getting a thunk, thunk, thunk. Could that be the damper? Is there a way to remove the damper without taking everything apart? Angle grinder? If I am taking the whole thing back down, I might as well replace the VCU with...

In my slow and steady quest to cobble back together a Jan 03 built V6 soft-top, I have bought a complete tailshaft from a 2004 Td4, including a VCU with the damper. I need the tailshaft back in for registration here in Australia. So my question is: can I just install the entire thing with the...

Thanks for the info but the spacer centre bore (CB) of 64.1 mm matches the Freelander exactly so the wheel is still sits on the hub. Naturally, it is pushed out 5mm but it is a compromise that I am willing to live with. Obviously, this is only my personal opinion and it's up to anyone else to...

Thanks for the advice on the CD changer. The kids think it's "cringy" because of the age and the body panels but they should be thankful because I made it less cringy by removing the 20" chrome pimp wheels that it came with. It's just for driving to the train station and for taking the dogs to...

Apologies for dredging up this post (and I am sure that the OP has found a solution in the intervening 16 years) but I recently faced this problem with older 17" Triple Sport wheels on a newer Freelander 1. For anyone in the future facing this problem, I ordered four of these aluminum spacers...

To anyone who saw my posts from a few months ago, I wanted to say that the Lockdown Landy lives! I call it that because my bother-in-law and I went to pick this Freelander up at the auctions on the afternoon of a recent lockdown here in Brisbane. It was an adventure getting it back to my house...

Yeah, just call me Kenny Rogers because I am the gambler. My wife asked couldn't I have just gotten a decent running one with the money that I have spent so far on two non-running ones. My response is - where's the fun in that? Anyway, the front wheels turned in opposite directions when raised...

Hello, everyone. I just bought a Freelander (another one, if you saw my post from a few weeks ago) and it has the propshaft (including the VCU) removed. I am in the process of removing the propshaft from the other car with all the oil leaks and I just noticed something about the new one. (Note...

I spoke to a Land Rover specialist on the Gold Coast who seemed grudgingly willing to take on the car. He's booked out for the next few weeks so he mentioned that I should check if the coolant is leaking into the oil in the meantime. I got the sense that if it is, he thought that the car...

Funny thing is that I looked at a very rough soft-top Freelander in Brisbane a few months ago that was a personal import from NZ. It had a few things like leather seats and the Harman Kardon stereo which I thought were pretty rare in Australia. But it also had non-functional brakes and when the...

Yeah, the inspector picked up that the oil leaks onto the exhaust somewhere and I did smell the fumes in the car when I drove it (illegally) to the mechanic last week. So that definitely needs to be fixed in order to get it re-registered. Well, my brother-in-law and I drove it to my house from...

The soft-tops are getting thin on the ground here in Australia and a similar V6 was listed as sold in New South Wales in November with an asking price of $6,000 but it had only about 150,000 km. Based upon that, I should have a few $1,000 to play with before I risk investing more into the car...

Hi, I have been away for nearly 20 years after I happily ditched my Discovery II but for some reason, I decided to try again with an old Freelander. I live in Queensland and I won an 2002 V6 Freelander at a local auction for A$1,500. It's got about 215,000 km on it now and the last documented...

I live in Australia and I started getting poor mileage last year (accompanied by a diesel smell). Land Rover replaced the fuel regulator under warranty in September and the diesel smell is gone but I'm still using 12-13L/100klms, which I calculate to be about 18-19 mpg. I'm pretty sure I was...