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It's the stud at about 12 o'clock at the top of the diff. We are off on a long trip tomorrow so no real time to strip and change it. The studs seem to be quite close together on the diff. Is one loose one likely to make any difference? Any suggestions for an quick and easy remedy?
| K9F Member Since: 12 Nov 2009 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 9610   
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If you are committed to this long trip tomorrow your options are indeed limited and finding this at the 11th hour on a Sunday is unfortunate indeed. It also depends what tools you have access to and how punishing your trip is? Tap a new thread as a temporary sticking plaster fix or just live with it for the trip? If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!
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24th Jul 2016 1:18pm |
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| 4RF RDS Member Since: 19 Jul 2015 Location: Ottawa Posts: 933  
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You aught to be just fine, I would not lose any sleep over it... Unless, of course, you plan on off road rally racing. 2010 Range Rover MkIII Autobiography Super Charged (Idris)
2003 Range Rover Mk III (Desmond FitzWilliam) 2000 Defender 110 CSW TD5 (CTX) 1992 Range Rover Classic (Lizzy) 1972 Series III 300 Tdi (Stanwood) 1967 MGB GT Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) |
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24th Jul 2016 2:52pm |
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| jonny2tanx Member Since: 06 Jul 2014 Location: Harpenden, Herts Posts: 156 
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Thanks for the replies. We are committed to the trip which will be about 6000 miles all in all but will be on roads. I don't know how good the roads are in some places hence wishing to put a diff guard on. We are going to France through Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and then back home via Poland. I do have a tap and die set but there is not really any space to get to it. I guess I will have to live with it. I'll keep an eye out for leaks and deal with it if it happens, which I hope it won't
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24th Jul 2016 4:30pm |
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| agentmulder Member Since: 16 Apr 2016 Location: Outer Space Posts: 1324 
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Sheesh, sorry no tech help. But best of luck to you!
Hopefully it's manageable. I'm a magnet for unfortunate timing myself... Solved the bowel problem, working on the consonants... |
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24th Jul 2016 9:53pm |
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| jonny2tanx Member Since: 06 Jul 2014 Location: Harpenden, Herts Posts: 156
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Many thanks for your best wishes. I once discovered a split cv boot on an Audi Quattro we once had as i changed the oil on the evening before we were due to leave for a European trip. Fortunately the guy who serviced it for us lived nearby and he owed me a favour as I had dragged him paralytic drunk off the floor of the toilets in the local a few weeks before. A quick call round to his house to arrange for him to open his garage at 6am the next morning had that one sorted. Alas this one isn't so easily resolved
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24th Jul 2016 10:08pm |
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| mk1collector Member Since: 17 Sep 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 6769  
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Is it completely stripped all the way down? If not could you pack it out with washers and get a nut just on the end for the time being? It probably won't leak anyway but anything is better than nothing. Ray
My build thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic17615.html |
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24th Jul 2016 11:03pm |
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| jonny2tanx Member Since: 06 Jul 2014 Location: Harpenden, Herts Posts: 156
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It's stripped pretty well along the entire length. I already tried packing with washers and it didn't help
There is a point where it appears to tighten but if you go beyond that point it goes loose again. I hate cars  |
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24th Jul 2016 11:09pm |
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| 4RF RDS Member Since: 19 Jul 2015 Location: Ottawa Posts: 933
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Dude.... It'll be fine enjoy your trip. 2010 Range Rover MkIII Autobiography Super Charged (Idris)
2003 Range Rover Mk III (Desmond FitzWilliam) 2000 Defender 110 CSW TD5 (CTX) 1992 Range Rover Classic (Lizzy) 1972 Series III 300 Tdi (Stanwood) 1967 MGB GT Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) |
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25th Jul 2016 4:48pm |
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| Fatboy Slim Member Since: 04 Feb 2008 Location: Bridgend Posts: 1006 
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As above. It'll be absolutely fine
Enjoy your trip  |
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25th Jul 2016 5:51pm |
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| jonny2tanx Member Since: 06 Jul 2014 Location: Harpenden, Herts Posts: 156
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Thanks all for your best wishes. At Dover now waiting to board the ferry. Only 2 hours late for a change
Slight delay at security - was being checked by the English police. Next lane was letting everyone through without even stopping them. Us Defender drivers must look shady  |
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25th Jul 2016 10:01pm |
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| dorsetsmith Member Since: 30 Oct 2011 Location: South West Posts: 4554 |
or making shore at land rover not stolen and being removed form uk never to be seen again
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26th Jul 2016 3:51pm |
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| jonny2tanx Member Since: 06 Jul 2014 Location: Harpenden, Herts Posts: 156
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Fair point but he didn't look much like a Land Rover man to me. No dirt and grease under the fingernails. I think he was more interested in how my other half and her daughter were going to enter Belarus without a visa like I had in mine. Queue Belarussian passports
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26th Jul 2016 5:37pm |
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