Member Since: 14 Mar 2017
Location: Somewhere near earth
Posts: 75
Rear propshaft wear and tear
After having some droning noise, but surprisingly no vibration from the driveshaft, i got to look at the center bearing. It was indeed halfway split, and very loose.
Figuring that perhaps the bearing as well may be fubar, ive ordered a replacement propshaft complete.
Now ive got the old one off (an amazing easy job i may add!) ive noticed the following.
1 obviously the center bearing rubber is split away.
2- the join at the center bearing has a fair amount of play, clacking back and forth and side to side.
3- the knuckle at the Transfer case side (front of prop) has a small amount of twist movement
4- the rear u joint is very stiff and is like a three position switch in both directions, it moves to a click in the middle, to a click one way to a click the other.
Now im pretty sure the u joint is fubar, (never known a u joint to be like this and be ok) but i wonder if the other parts with movement are bad, or is this normal on a driveshaft from a D3
Thanks in advance
31st Mar 2017 4:43 pm
JksD4
Member Since: 31 Mar 2015
Location: Highlands
Posts: 100
Mine was pretty similar at 94K milesMY2010 D4 3.0 TDV6 HSE Stornaway grey
31st Mar 2017 8:53 pm
NickJ
Member Since: 11 Oct 2010
Location: there's no f in point
Posts: 2137
Rear prop shaft has just been replaced, D3 is over ten years old, found on annual service. There was a pile of four on the garage floor that my LR indie had replaced over the past couple of weeks
31st Mar 2017 10:23 pm
MGCarr
Member Since: 15 Jul 2014
Location: Lancashire
Posts: 703
Mine failed recently due to play in the front knuckle joint producing a horrendous knocking noise under acceleration, so loud that for a few seconds I thought it was a big end bearing gone. It came on very suddenly after a brief bout of more spirited driving than usual. There was no vibration and it proved quite difficult to track down as the actual amount of play in the joint when the car was standing still was very small. A new GKN OEM propshaft and the car is like new again.
1997 Defender 90 for the kids and I to have a go at some competitive off road RTV and Tyro trials, daughter picked up her first trophy over the August Bank Holiday.
Previous Land Rover history
1996 P38 4.6 V8 Autobiography
1996 Discovery TDi 300
1972 Range Rover 3.5 V8
LWB Hard Top Series 3
LWB Truck Cab Series 2A
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31st Mar 2017 11:28 pm
Gobosoft
Member Since: 31 May 2015
Location: Victoria
Posts: 7
Did you have a clunk when going from neutral to drive? Like it was taking up some slack. Also when applying throttle after lifting off? Thanks
1st Apr 2017 1:05 am
Sniper1
Member Since: 14 Mar 2017
Location: Somewhere near earth
Posts: 75
Only a very slight one gobosoft, and occasionally. The symptoms i had were more of a droning noise on mid throttle. hard accel and lift off didnt have it.
1st Apr 2017 8:16 am
Ja92mie
Member Since: 16 Sep 2014
Location: Newquay
Posts: 1259
Mine is at LR getting replaced now! Centre bearing is the culprit here. Mileage is 79k.
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