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Vehicle & Technical => Defender => Topic started by: extreme90 on March 20, 2006, 22:57:16

Title: argh am stumped on this one
Post by: extreme90 on March 20, 2006, 22:57:16

out in the 90 tonight, steering is non existant  :shock:  like trying to drive a tram  :shock:  . fluid is full, box ino is a gud n, no i havent bent the track rod agen  :P  tyres aint flat, no fluid spraying out any ideas ?

Title: argh am stumped on this one
Post by: hobbit on March 20, 2006, 22:59:20

Panhard rod bushes?

Stand next to the steering wheel and move from left to right, see if the body moves but not the front wheel

Title: argh am stumped on this one
Post by: extreme90 on March 20, 2006, 23:08:52

ill do it in the morning now, but no worries if it is that cos am fitting polybushes  :wink: wel fitted most of them when changed the arms but cuddnt be arsed to do the panhard bushes so left them, but i cant see it being them, but anything is possable, hey its a land rover lol  :P

Title: argh am stumped on this one
Post by: bullfrog on March 20, 2006, 23:27:24

If yours is anything like mine the lower(axle)bolt will be seized !
I cut either side and then welded a bolt to it. The heat melted old bush so easy then. Just a small cut ans out she came !
Just pricing taps and dyes to cut threads on panhard rod to fit adjuster !!!
Not cheap !
Cant help with steering issue, Sorry ! :roll:

Title: argh am stumped on this one
Post by: extreme90 on March 20, 2006, 23:34:52

no the bolts wont be siezed on mine, copper slip works a treat  :lol:  :wink: always thinking ahead  :wink:  things that i am at some point going to need to change i undo replace if nescisary and coat with copperslip , been speaking to leadboots and gud old mike seems to think it might be difflock engaged and not come back out,  :(  i did give it a bit of grief to day i wunder if its stuck in  :?  bt shhh i didnt tell mikey that  :P

Title: argh am stumped on this one
Post by: Xtremeteam on March 20, 2006, 23:46:33

make sure the difflock aint stuck in  :lol:

Title: argh am stumped on this one
Post by: Budgie on March 20, 2006, 23:47:26

It's not the U/J's on the steering arm from the steering box up to the bulkhead?
I know these can feel notchy if they dry out but maybe worth a look & a soaking in light oil.  :wink:

Title: argh am stumped on this one
Post by: datalas on March 21, 2006, 08:00:01

it's not something as silly as the power steering belt being loose or slipping is it ?

not having woken up yet I don't know if you have a serpentine front end, or the elastic band method...

Title: argh am stumped on this one
Post by: extreme90 on March 21, 2006, 19:59:51

elastic band method  :lol:  lol, wel give the ball joints a good old bashing with ye old gentle persuasion impliment......and free'd up a little bit, but when i turn the wheel the body moves :shock:  and there is play in the panhrod bushes when the wheel is turned, so can that be the other problem ?

Title: argh am stumped on this one
Post by: Budgie on March 21, 2006, 22:20:04

It won't be helping.

Time for new bushes me thinks, then see what else could be causing the steering problms, if there is any after the bushes are changed.  :wink:

Title: argh am stumped on this one
Post by: extreme90 on March 21, 2006, 22:50:46

well i have got the bushes alredy.... dynamic orange  :wink:  got a 25tonne press at work and oxycetyline bottles so got that sorted....if not out comes the hammer lol, but i cant see what else can be causing it  :shock:   and no mikey the difflock aint stuck in  :P  thank god  :lol: .

land rovers...cant live with them, cant live without !