krisjones91
New Member
hi everyone. i said a small hello in the intro area and said a few little things about my freeelander.
but heres my main things.
i have bought a v reg 1.8 5 door freelander in aluminium (goldish) with reems of work done on it in the last few years. it had thousands spent on it with the head gasket, belts the list goes on. so thought i was on to a winner.
when i bought it, it had a skipping and thumping noise when i turned. never owning a freelandy i just thought mabey the orange hill descent was causing this ( plans were to solder in the broken wires in the next few days).
well 4 days into owning it i was driving home from work doing about 65mph on the motorway when i could smell what smelt like gas smell then BOOM, there was a bang from underneath and i got a red warning light to stop, i nursed it off on to the slip road where a b&q was. so coasted it into there. looked underneath and above the prop was covered in some sort of fluid. started it back up and the warning light had gone. started moving the car and it felt fine. infact moving more free than ever. so nursed it the few miles home. took it to the garage the next day to remove the prop to see the damage, thinking its blown the ird casing. but it had blown the bearing/knuckle between the vcu and ird. so foobared the prop. we looked at the ird and it seemed dry. since i bought the car it had clicked on turning and accelerating. but had got worse since the prop was removed. google'ing for the last two days made me thing that i had not got away with it all and indeed the ird was still foobared but from the driveshaft area. all day i have been thinking can i really afford a new ird and driveshaft and work done from the garage. the answer was no. it would cost me well over 500 quid on something i still was unsure i could trust. so called my mate and asked him to look at the engine while i pulled back and fore turnin the wheels ect. what we saw was since the prop was removed the engine is rocking quite a lot and the creaking cracking noise is coming from the drivers side engine mount. he said it sounded like a old spring bed. so at the mo im gingerly optermistic that it is just a mount. that the ird is okay, fingers crossed. so my questions are if anyone is still reading this essay lol. when i bought the car the temp gauge doesnt work. its had its head done so can anyone tell me what to look for wires wise. hoping its a unplugged connection? also is it hard to get to the ird refill plug, i want to see if the ird has oil in it? last thing is when i come to a stop the freelander sometimes holds at 1500 revs or when im driving it will feel like its slightly accelerating itself untill i let the throttle off then when it reaches 2000 revs it feels like its holding back. im thinking sticky maf?? thanks for reading people.
but heres my main things.
i have bought a v reg 1.8 5 door freelander in aluminium (goldish) with reems of work done on it in the last few years. it had thousands spent on it with the head gasket, belts the list goes on. so thought i was on to a winner.
when i bought it, it had a skipping and thumping noise when i turned. never owning a freelandy i just thought mabey the orange hill descent was causing this ( plans were to solder in the broken wires in the next few days).
well 4 days into owning it i was driving home from work doing about 65mph on the motorway when i could smell what smelt like gas smell then BOOM, there was a bang from underneath and i got a red warning light to stop, i nursed it off on to the slip road where a b&q was. so coasted it into there. looked underneath and above the prop was covered in some sort of fluid. started it back up and the warning light had gone. started moving the car and it felt fine. infact moving more free than ever. so nursed it the few miles home. took it to the garage the next day to remove the prop to see the damage, thinking its blown the ird casing. but it had blown the bearing/knuckle between the vcu and ird. so foobared the prop. we looked at the ird and it seemed dry. since i bought the car it had clicked on turning and accelerating. but had got worse since the prop was removed. google'ing for the last two days made me thing that i had not got away with it all and indeed the ird was still foobared but from the driveshaft area. all day i have been thinking can i really afford a new ird and driveshaft and work done from the garage. the answer was no. it would cost me well over 500 quid on something i still was unsure i could trust. so called my mate and asked him to look at the engine while i pulled back and fore turnin the wheels ect. what we saw was since the prop was removed the engine is rocking quite a lot and the creaking cracking noise is coming from the drivers side engine mount. he said it sounded like a old spring bed. so at the mo im gingerly optermistic that it is just a mount. that the ird is okay, fingers crossed. so my questions are if anyone is still reading this essay lol. when i bought the car the temp gauge doesnt work. its had its head done so can anyone tell me what to look for wires wise. hoping its a unplugged connection? also is it hard to get to the ird refill plug, i want to see if the ird has oil in it? last thing is when i come to a stop the freelander sometimes holds at 1500 revs or when im driving it will feel like its slightly accelerating itself untill i let the throttle off then when it reaches 2000 revs it feels like its holding back. im thinking sticky maf?? thanks for reading people.
