Dinks
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How can you tell on a Freelander if it's running mondo or not?
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unless its got a freewheeling VCU.
Singvogel
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Try parking on wet grass - then floor the accelerator!
Creeeg
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FFS!
Do the following:
Drive it off a cliff and make sure you land on your roof. Fatal injuries aside, get out if you can and the new orientation of the vehicle will provide you with a hassle-free view of whether your prop's connected to the rear diff or not.
Saves "hours" of tedium bending down and looking UNDER your FL...
Do the following:
Drive it off a cliff and make sure you land on your roof. Fatal injuries aside, get out if you can and the new orientation of the vehicle will provide you with a hassle-free view of whether your prop's connected to the rear diff or not.
Saves "hours" of tedium bending down and looking UNDER your FL...
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Richard Martin
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How do you do that then?
Dinks
Active Member
teddywood1
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like singovel said try it on wet grass but perferable up a hill if the vcu aint woking the front wheels will just spin if it is working then you will just move but please make sure you are NOT near a cliff or you will please somebody on here
Dinks
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Thanks for that glad somebody in the landrover community doesn't want to take the **** or kill all freelanders 😊
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do we have to put up with that crapatork ****e? 
wiltshire landyman
I’m back
they are very rare
Singvogel
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Hi Dinks,
Maybe you didn't realise at the time, but my suggestion about the damp grass was absolutely serious.
A Freelander with VCU working and all the bits performing as they should, will not spin wheels on wet grass - it just gets going - same on snow, or mud - it just goes.
If the front wheels spin you ain't got 4X4.
Caio,
Singvogel.
ps I may joke around a bit - but I don't take the **** out of new folks. Welcome to LandyZone by the way.
Maybe you didn't realise at the time, but my suggestion about the damp grass was absolutely serious.
A Freelander with VCU working and all the bits performing as they should, will not spin wheels on wet grass - it just gets going - same on snow, or mud - it just goes.
If the front wheels spin you ain't got 4X4.
Caio,
Singvogel.
ps I may joke around a bit - but I don't take the **** out of new folks. Welcome to LandyZone by the way.
Singvogel
Well-Known Member
Ah well - I'm wrong then.
I was basing what I said on my experience towing a 2tonne trailer with the Freelander which just moves off smoothly across the field.
My Sprinter van, even with diff-lock on, just digs itself into the ground.
I use the Freelander to get the trailer out of the field and onto tarmac where the Sprinter takes over.
I must try it tomorrow on grass without the trailer and see what difference the various Synergy settings make - perhaps the Synergy gives 'too much' power.
I know on the LandRover Experience day we had a Freelander on a very steep mud slope with all four wheels spinning. But I reckon gravity + maths, or Pythagoras or some such reason was the cause.
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Mantamad
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or Pythagoras or some such reason was the cause.
Was he there as well ?
Just don't get him started on those theorems lol
steely dan
Active Member
Corrrrrrrrrrrrrrect .....
It may have a certain recon'd or should that be re "conned" vcu supplied by a certain supplier who I believe we are prevented from naming .
I bought and fitted one and can say without any contradiction that you get fook all drive to the rear wheels when fitted .
