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Vehicle & Technical => Series Land Rovers => Topic started by: Lincs niva on March 27, 2006, 20:51:54

Title: Scary moment
Post by: Lincs niva on March 27, 2006, 20:51:54

A very scary moment the other day sunday actually :D .

Steering decdied to stop working.What happend was the top bearing at the top of the steering coloum had failed leaving fragments of metal jamming against the steering colum.leaving me with no steering.Well only the way i was going.I now have to try to remove the rest of the bearing out of the top now any ideas guy's?

Cheers Gavin

Title: Scary moment
Post by: extreme90 on March 27, 2006, 23:50:09

hehe HAMMER  :lol:  try a hammer and a drift (piece of bar the right size) and tap the fragments out, or get a dyson  :lol:

Title: Scary moment
Post by: Singlefin on March 28, 2006, 13:25:02

The HBOL mentions it, but only when the entire column's out. Hopefully you can replace the bearing without taking the whole column off - my steering wheel wobble was explained when I was changing my indicator switch the other day and a load of ball bearings fell out  :shock:  :shock:

Title: Scary moment
Post by: Lincs niva on March 30, 2006, 08:02:12

Well we have tried the hammer job for about an hour.So tommorow my dad (jonno)is going to try again using a a bigger hammer :D

Cheers Gavin

Title: Scary moment
Post by: Miniman on March 30, 2006, 09:02:02

Been reading haynes and it say JUST POP IT OUT WITH YOUR FINGER...he he....

Na only joking just thought it be funny. You be better taking it off.