freelander repair top job on my landy

after having a clutch done on my free lander in stoke. a few weeks later my gaylander developed a bad wobble on the passenger side which developed into a shake i took it to my local garage who stated that the drive shaft nut was loose and hadnt been tabbed over they tightend it ,, any way the damage was done and i had a very bad shaking from the passenger side and middle area ,,After it was returned to the garage that fitted the clutch, and they said they didnt know what was wrong after having it for 2 days , and i should send it somewhere else and they would foot the bill< we will see hmmmm> any way after a few questions on LANDY ZONE i was pointed in the right direction of Matt from cannock,< freelander center> collected on friday from my house in stoke fixed,,,, replacement transfer box and driveshaft and delivered back to my door 0900 am sunday Boom baby , I can recommend this guy ,I dont have the room to work on vehicles at my new house nor the health any more which is a shame as i loved rebuilding my last series 3

Ha, I was there when he was doing it. Green 03 plate (or was it 02, I forget).
BTW those tyres need looking at. The off side front has a lot more tread than the rest and could cause problems with the IRD which would be a shame after just having it replaced.
Yes, Matt's a top bloke. Always goes the extra mile and doesn't charge anywhere near what the competition do.

maybe ill change the front over to the rear would that do it , not familiar with this on my series 3 i had some really beasty tread tyres ,, the tyre on that sides new,, can you explain a little please i am new to the freelander and always had series 3s ,, i bought this 4x4 mainly to pull a small caravan and get thru some muddy puddles , mainly for my wife to drive really i wanted a disco, but carol fancied a girly serengeti ,, any way i like it a lot so want to get things right , rather than fix it all the time

The freelander is sensitive to having a matched set of 4 tyres. If you have to replace a tyre you must at the very least replace a pair and put the new ones on the rear. Otherwise your nice new drivetrain components will head south again!

Very simply explained a Freelanders system should have 4 matching tyres, the rears should always be the ones with the most tread. It's also recommended by some to rotate the tyres often to keep an even tread, as fronts wear quicker than rears. If the rears are lower than the fronts then this fools the system into thinking there is less traction at the rear, this activates the 4wd and as a consequence it runs constantly in 4wd until it destroys itself.Most of the time a Freelander runs "most" of it's drive to the front when driving on tarmac.If the vehicle drives in slippy conditions and one of the front wheels starts to lose traction, the difference between the front and rear propshaft speeds is sensed by the viscous coupling and drive is split between front and rear.
However, I'm not too good at explaining things when I write them down, so hopefully someone else on here can explain it better.
Treated correctly, your drivetrain should give you relatively trouble free motoring. Now you've had the IRD replaced with a good unit, it makes sense to treat that right from the off. A new set of tyres (or at least a good matching second hand set) will save another trip to Matt's for another IRD.
Most Freelander owners were not Land Rover enthusiasts.They treated their Freelanders like a family hatchback. If they had a puncture, they went to Kwikfit and had that tyre replaced with whatever budget tyre they could afford. That's when the trouble started. This is how Freelanders got a bad reputation for drivetrain failure.