Have a look at https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/transfer-box-front-output-bearing-and-oil-seal-renewal.81771/ and https://forums.lr4x4.com/topic/25053-transfer-box-front-output-bearing/
Excellent, that's exactly what I needed to know. I'll order the bearing tomorrow. You've made my day. I've replaced the clutch on the deck so wanted to avoid pulling the transfer box at all costs as it's really heavy.
Good luck with it, it is certainly worth giving a go.
Ours has a very small amount of play in the front most UJ of the Carden joint but the slop in the output shaft is much worse. We're getting a vibration under hard acceleration and just over 50mph. The vibration is most noticeable through the steering wheel. It is strange though that it appeared straight after changing the transfer box oil. I wonder if the higher oil level is being picked between the gears and causing the output shaft to boggle around under load. It sounds odd but it's the only explanation I can feasibly come up with. The vibration comes on like it's caused by some sort of harmonics going on in the box. I will post a conclusion once I've fitted the new bearing and seal. I'm going to replace the UJs in the Carden joint as well but I think I'll do them after the bearing change to see if that fixes the issue. You don't need to change the whole drive shaft. There are rebuild kits. I can do a UJ in 20 minutes tops using a vice and a couple of appropriately sized sockets. It's quite an easy job.
Ours is not that bad, but I got worried about tales of the cardan joint letting go with little warning.
Yes, if you're going over to the continent peace of mind is worth it. I hadn't heard about the issue of Carden joints failing without warning. Sounds worrying. I'm going to rebuild ours with greasable joint too. I don't know where you're based but we have a 35 tonne hydraulic press which you're welcome to use if you're local enough. We're in North Shropshire.
Thank you for that kind offer, but we are on the south coast of Hampshire at present, but are looking to relocate to Shropshire if we can find somewhere suitable!
I found with mine I could check it all day long on the vehicle and it seemed ok.
I have already done them thanks. I used my hydraulic press as our fly press is usually set up to do other jobs. Interesting that the fly press worked well though. I'm always worried that I won't have enough control but this is possibly as we tend to use ours for small press stamping jobs.
