Help Poorly Discovery....

[Big Rich]

I was wondering if you might be able to help me..... :?:
My 200 Tdi Disco developed a knocking noise from the frount somewhere. Driving home (about 4 miles) it got alot worse now the steering wheel judders.   :shock:  #-o

I had noticed in car parks the steering was very heavy.  :oops:

Do you know anywhere I could go that would fix it in time for the Mud-Club Mucky Meetup this Fri?   ](*,)  


Many Thanks  

Rich

[Eeyore]

Off the top of my head, it sounds similar to woes a friend of mine had in his 90 when a front CV 'bought the farm'.

It's not that bad a job to change a CV, if thats what the problem actually is.

This isn't definate by any means, so see what everyone else thinks, too!

cheers
 :-s
Eeyore

[thermidorthelobster]

Be careful it's not a wheel bearing.  If it's getting much worse quickly, the wheel could fall off, which would not be great.

Jack up each front wheel in turn and check for any play.

[Big Rich]

Feel like a prat.  :oops: I have found that the one wheel nut has gone and two others were loose.  :shock: Not sure how as I checked them a week ago with my talque wrench.  :? Think that may be the problem?  Now its just the steering.  

[Sooty]

Don't mention torque wrenches and wheel nut to me
If anybody goes near my wheel nuts with a torque wrench they may need surgery to remove it from where it ends up. :twisted:

[Range Rover Blues]

Feel like a prat.  :oops: I have found that the one wheel nut has gone and two others were loose.  :shock: Not sure how as I checked them a week ago with my talque wrench.  :? Think that may be the problem?  Now its just the steering.  

Steering judder might be from the inbalance of missing a wheelnut, or from running on loose nuts (oh-err).  If not you could have done some harm, check your wheels run true and the tyres arn't damaged first.

[Wanderer]

Also that it wasn't al caused by caked on mud inside the wheel. It throws wheel balancing out quite bad and could have been a factor that caused the wheel nuts to work loose.

Ed

[SHERMAN TANK]

I once took a lesser motor (astra van) for a MOT the guy failed it on excess play in the front o/s ball joint.........On the way home my steering went funny i got out to find that i had forgot to tighten the wheel nuts before i went the the garage #-o ......needless to say it passed fine on return.....moral of the story.....even fully qualified MOT mechanics can cock up :D