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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: seph234 on September 02, 2005, 21:31:26

Title: its now my turn
Post by: seph234 on September 02, 2005, 21:31:26

yes as the title says its now my turn for my disco to break  after not driving it all week i jumped in it this afternoon and noticed a clicking noise coming from the front yes my cv joints are knackered both sides they was fine last week so when i look underneath with my assistant(fiance) going from lock to lock i can see water coming from both swivel sills, i undone the level plug and got about 1 cupfull of water from both sides then a nice brown water/oil mix followed. I take it they have sat there all week(after greenlaning the weekend) and the rust has done its job. so my question is are the cv joints hard to do and i take it ive got to change the swivel housing seal/s to stop the water getting in again, and again is this a hard job and what do i need do they do a full seal kit  that has every seal/thing i need for the job. And sorry one last question are the cv's from paddocks at £28 anygood thanks.  joe

Title: its now my turn
Post by: seph234 on September 02, 2005, 21:41:54

the water that came out of the swivel housings looked  like this  :lol:  :lol:

Title: its now my turn
Post by: Paul on September 02, 2005, 22:11:03

My... Did you realy have that much water in your swivel housings  :shock:  :lol:

Title: its now my turn
Post by: sulley on September 02, 2005, 22:13:27

I would worry more about having a dog in the water!!!! :lol:

Title: its now my turn
Post by: seph234 on September 02, 2005, 22:20:24

ok i might of exagerated a bit :oops:  but there was quite a bit of water that come out of the housings

Title: its now my turn
Post by: seph234 on September 02, 2005, 22:22:52

and the dog yes she  loves the water, shame my cv's dont :lol:

Title: its now my turn
Post by: Range Rover Blues on September 03, 2005, 01:32:44

You need to remove the stub axle rather than the swivel to do the CV joints, but once they are off you could do the swivel seals without messing around setting the bearing preload.

You really need to buy a manual!

Order of work is something like

Remove calliper complete with brake lines from the hub/knuckle and secure out of the way
remove drive shaft
removed hub and disk, clean and regrease bearings at your discretion
remove stub axle
remove CV joint and inner half shaft
disconnect steering link(s)
remove swivel assembly complete
remove large grease seal from swivel housing

Check swivel preload at this point

Rebuild as reversal of the above.  None of the parts are that heavy.

Title: its now my turn
Post by: seph234 on September 03, 2005, 09:34:12

ok thanks RRB, i do have a haynes manual but they never tell you like it is i think the disco they work on is shiney from the show room and all bolts slide out withease and they never seem to shear anything off :lol:

has anybody had the paddocks cv's and what do they reckon?

Title: its now my turn
Post by: Wanderer on September 03, 2005, 13:27:11

Get yourself a pukka Lanrover Discovery manual. They are around £30 but worth their weight in gold.

Ed

Title: its now my turn
Post by: seph234 on September 03, 2005, 15:14:27

is that the same as the one you can get on disc for the computer if it is my dad has got it please be the same one [-o<

Title: its now my turn
Post by: Range Rover Blues on September 04, 2005, 00:27:23

The RRC one's are more like £40 upwards.  I've got the proper LR CD manual and all they've done is sit the paper manual on a scanner and feed the pictures into ADOBE.

For £5 on E-Blag you can't go wrong, just print the pages you need.

Title: its now my turn
Post by: seph234 on September 04, 2005, 08:18:42

thanks it sounds like the one my dad has got  il see if i can borrow it :D