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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: Disco-Ron on December 31, 2009, 18:32:01
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Is it only me, or does everyone go through propshaft uj's and wheel bearings like they're going out of fashion.......
I grease them what i call regularly... and they still last no time at-all........
Any ideas............ apart from burn the truck......
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Don't fit cheap ones, fit Timken or GKN bearings, fit GKN UJs and grease the living daylights out of them.
Is the truck lifted or do you wade a lot? lifted UJs suffer, washed out bearing sof any sort likewise.
Big wheels will get through bearings too, the 200 Defender had the wheel bearings further apart than the Disco to make them stronger.
I remmebrr Tim went through lots of wheel bearings before finding out the swivel bearing was causing the play.
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+2 inch on springs............ have costor correction arms, and cardon prop onthe front, and wide angle one on the rear, only ever use timken, and gkn............. i don;t get it.......... i must be doing something wrong............. the truck is solely a play thing, so does get quite wet....... and muddy............... :doh:
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do you clean the underneath after playing??? my old disco used to go through them, and that was because i never washed under neath, i now give it a quick blast with the presure washer on the props
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It gets a proper jet off after most outings..... and it lives in a dry garage...............
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all lifted landies seem to go thru propshaft uj's and bearings whether that's because of the lift or because peeps that lift tend to thrash their motors more or a combination of the two is anybodies guess.
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i have a200tdi jredg with a a 2inch lift run 235.85.16 i use it offroad and laning aswell as on the road running it 4 2years now all props and bearing are fine but i do a check every other wk and clean and grease weather im just lucky i dont no and my truck does about 10000 a year but it has 300tdi axle dont know if that makes a diffrence :D
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Is it only me, or does everyone go through propshaft uj's and wheel bearings like they're going out of fashion.......
I grease them what i call regularly... and they still last no time at-all........
Any ideas............ apart from burn the truck......
Yup Mine Does too Wheel Bearings and Prop UJ`s are always on back order lol I Just Put it down to Lift and bigger wheels
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Blue is similar spec, 2" lift, castor arms, cardan prop, not wide-angle yet though and I only strip the rear hubs when they leak, the stub axle is pitted. I do avaoid watyer though and it still gets used regularly.
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If it says on the box,made in china,throw em away!!
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never replaced a uj on my comp truck for 3 years
i snapped my propshaft in half before i wore out a uj
bearing last a year for me
but now on land cruiser axles so will see how i get on with bearings :roll:
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If it says on the box,made in china,throw em away!!
Made in China/made from china :lol:
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Thats about right mate,they should make the chinqs fit em as well!