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Vehicle & Technical => Defender => Topic started by: grunty on August 23, 2009, 21:27:10

Title: steering woes :(
Post by: grunty on August 23, 2009, 21:27:10: I have a little problem with my Defender steering box, I just pulled away from outside the house and this happened..
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/KitenSk8/The%20Gathering%2009/SG101210.jpg)

stripped the steering box o find the other end
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/KitenSk8/landy/Landysteering.jpg)

really glad it happened outside the house and not on the M5 which is where I was heading!!

Now swapped box for spare disc one i had.
Title: Re: steering woes :(
Post by: richo on August 23, 2009, 22:02:35: [!Expletive Deleted!]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: steering woes :(
Post by: Saffy on August 23, 2009, 23:41:38: was that a genuine LR steering box?
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Post by: Range Rover Blues on August 24, 2009, 00:30:48: That's deeply alarming.
Title: Re: steering woes :(
Post by: Saffy on August 24, 2009, 08:18:43: *me wonders* if at some point some cowboy applied heat and big hammer to get the drop arm off. Though that fracture is so beautifully crystalline it looks like a fault at high stress point, needs an expert to examine it. Scary.
Title: Re: steering woes :(
Post by: burgerman on August 24, 2009, 10:47:04: Seen this happen on a few occasions now :shock: Still deeply disturbing though :-k
Title: Re: steering woes :(
Post by: grunty on August 24, 2009, 20:23:24: tis a bit worrying :(
ASFAIK it is the original box, I've owned for about 5 yrs, chap before me had it near 10yrs and he never mentioned a replacement.
We did try to get the drop arm off a few weeks ago but due to the fact we could'nt get a hammer close enough to hit it hard we did it in situ..

I do go off road but no where near as aggressive as many I have seen so well withing the trucks capabilities.

So the cause is still a mystery, it would be good to get an expert to look at it but I don't know one :roll:

Hope I don't come across this again 8-[