Massive amount of play in steering :(

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Hello guys n girls, got my first ever disco this week, took it for a drive today and found that the steering is really bad! I mean it won't drive in a straight line at all. The fella I bought I off said the wheel bearings need tightening? I have also looked at tightening the adjustment on the pas box but the Allen key is all the way in! Will this mean a replacement pas box is in order or is there anything else I can do?
I'm fairly confident at fixing things myself but I'm not familiar to the disco yet :-|
Any help is gratefully received, thanks in advance rob
 
My wife cannot drive my disco in a straight line, she weaves all over the place like a bleeding snake and frightens the **** out herself as well as me !! :eek: She ends up white knuckled with nail marks in the steering wheel.

I drive it mostly one handed with my other arm on the armrest, I have taken my hands off the steering wheel at 70mph on the motorway and it drives in a perfect straight line to show her its ok.

She drives a modern Mazda and its like a bleeding go-cart to me, I twitch all over the place when I drive it.

She also says my disco needs 5 minutes notice when the brakes are used :D

I think a lot of it is what you are used to
 
horse62 said:
My wife cannot drive my disco in a straight line, she weaves all over the place like a bleeding snake and frightens the **** out herself as well as me !! :eek: She ends up white knuckled with nail marks in the steering wheel.

I drive it mostly one handed with my other arm on the armrest, I have taken my hands off the steering wheel at 70mph on the motorway and it drives in a perfect straight line to show her its ok.

She drives a modern Mazda and its like a bleeding go-cart to me, I twitch all over the place when I drive it.

She also says my disco needs 5 minutes notice when the brakes are used :D

I think a lot of it is what you are used to
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I no what your saying but this is bad lol I drive all sorts in work like ****ty old vans and dump trucks, fork lift trucks, ect and iv had my fair share of old cars
 
Rpats said:
Hello guys n girls, got my first ever disco this week, took it for a drive today and found that the steering is really bad! I mean it won't drive in a straight line at all. The fella I bought I off said the wheel bearings need tightening? I have also looked at tightening the adjustment on the pas box but the Allen key is all the way in! Will this mean a replacement pas box is in order or is there anything else I can do?
I'm fairly confident at fixing things myself but I'm not familiar to the disco yet :-|
Any help is gratefully received, thanks in advance rob
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Hi Rob, as others has said get someone to rock the steering back and forth while you watch underneath to see where the slack is.

My money would be on the steering arm locking nut which holds the steering arm on it's tapered shaft.

Dave
 
I have a lift on mine. The steering is always more vague when the wheel bearings need adjustment which is more often than standard intervals when you lift a Discovery.

Track rod ends are also vulnerable not to mention rear trailing arm bushes as well as the caster being out of sink if its still got the standard radius arms. Oh and the radius arm bushes go too.

Basically as soon as you like the Disco its a painful game lol
 
Also check the lower part of the steering column isn't wobbling about where it meets the steering box. Mine was knackered - it's only ally and the splines can strip if not nipped up properly. Changing it sorted the problem for me -i would check that 1st before crawling underneath as it's immediately obvious and easy to get at.
best of luck!
 
I had this with my disco 300.
Check you have no fluid weeping from the top of the steering box,check fluid level.
Turned out my steering box was knackered,£30 and 2 hours later new box fitted and lag gone!.
 
hoopfish said:
I had this with my disco 300.
Check you have no fluid weeping from the top of the steering box,check fluid level.
Turned out my steering box was knackered,£30 and 2 hours later new box fitted and lag gone!.
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Where did u get box from m8? :crazy_driver:
 
Looked on that "bay" site.It was stripped from a dead Disco,but has worked fine for the last 6 months.
You pays your pound and takes your chance.
That much slack will almost always point to the a knackered box.
To replace i done it on my own,bit fiddly but basic knowledge with basic tools.
 
I thought I'd add my experience here.

My disco is lifted 2" with 285/75 tyres. It's never going to be as accurate as a new std disco, but even so it didn't feel right.

I've

changed all the bushes for Super Pro
changed all steering arms/ball joints for HD versions
Tightened all the wheel bearings
Changed the pitman arm
Tried tightening the steering box ( this helped for a few weeks)
I've even played around with the tracking on my computer alignment rig.

The thing that made the biggest difference was putting a new steering box in. I got one from paddocks for £150. Easily the most cost effective way to sort the steering. And it comes with a year's warranty. Believe me, saving £100 and getting a second hand one won't feel like so much of a saving when you have to fit yet another one.
 
Found the problem guys..... I managed to kill the whole drivers side assembly In the processes! Some little **** tryed to nick the disco over night so I had to move it to another address, whilst doing so the wheel bearing collapsed and I managed to sheer the disc/hub and muller the end of the drive shaft! Great:mad::mad::clap2: haha time to get the tools out
 
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