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eutek

Member Since: 03 Mar 2009
Location: High Wycombe
Posts: 586

2009 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Stornoway Grey

Chirp chirp, squeak squeak, clunk clunk

Hi all...

My 110 has developed an intermittent squeak, it appears to be coming from near the front driver's side wheel. It is a high pitched squeak, almost like a chirp. It is similar to that high squeaking/chirping sound you hear when watching a WWII film and the tanks roll in, the squeak of the tracks.

I can only hear it when rolling forward fairly slowly, the smoothness of the surface doesn't appear to have any effect. Can't figure out what it is, as there is only one of me and I can't walk alongside the 110 when it is moving

Mrs. Eutek is 6 months pregnant and not in the mood to play "find the noise".

Is there anything in that general area that could produce an intermittent squeak like that? It isn't the brake as far as I can tell - as it happens if I brake or let the 110 roll freely. I'm thinking perhaps the bearing? Years ago a bearing in Mrs. Eutek's Merc went as I was driving around 90 on the motorway, it wasn't fun and I don't want to repeat that!

The other noise is a bit harder to reproduce, it occurs when I turn hard left going around 20 mph or so. It is repeated clunking sound, almost like underneath the middle of the 110. I poked/prodded around and couldn't feel anything loose. Could it be something like the handbrake drum? It doesn't happen really at all during normal driving, just during rather violent turns (not something that I do all that often), just curious....

Thanks!

1st Aug 2014 4:23pm

landy andy

Member Since: 15 Feb 2009
Location: Ware, Herts
Posts: 5692

2006 Defender 110 Td5 USW Zermatt Silver

Prop uj's?

1st Aug 2014 4:24pm

mk1collector

Member Since: 17 Sep 2009
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 6769

The repeated clunking when turning could be a cv joint on its way out

1st Aug 2014 4:49pm

custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
Posts: 20339

Could be wheel bearings too..

1st Aug 2014 5:00pm

Phatcat

Member Since: 01 Nov 2013
Location: W yorks
Posts: 98

Had this with mine recently. I was positive the noise was coming from the front. Turned out to be the rear prop UJ.

1st Aug 2014 6:22pm

eutek

Member Since: 03 Mar 2009
Location: High Wycombe
Posts: 586

Super - thanks all, at least some areas to investigate.

1st Aug 2014 7:31pm

uncas

Member Since: 22 Nov 2012
Location: Wentworth near Rotherham
Posts: 340

Jack the Landy up and check each wheel for play and roughness in the bearings. I'd be tempted to shove a screwdriver between the brake disc and the backplate to see if there's a small stone or Chipping lodged between them I've been called out a few times by relations because they had a noise from the front and found that it was a bloody stone stuck in there. The clunking on full lock could well be the cv joint

Uncas

1st Aug 2014 8:37pm

Freypal

Member Since: 23 Sep 2013
Location: Shropshire
Posts: 271

1992 Defender 90 200 Tdi HT Portofino Red

Also had this recently. My money is on a UJ

7th Aug 2014 8:49pm

Samblers

Member Since: 29 Jan 2014
Location: Perth, innit
Posts: 63

2010 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SW Fuji White

I had a very high pitched squeeky squeeky squeek at low speed for ages... usually over 'high frequency' bumps.

I traced it to the bonnet pivots, which are a metal painted pin in a plastic sleeve. Open your bonnet (or take it off) and squirt some lanolin on them or rub on some wax.

HTH

13th Aug 2014 7:30am

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