brens-freelander
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Hi all
I was helping a friend with his 2003 automatic td4 freelander today and found a couple of oddities:
1. the previous owner had removed the prop-shaft to the rear diff from the middle while leaving the front to the middle section in place.
I know that this is quite common practice (from reading up about it ) to remove the drive shaft but is it best to remove all shafts back to the diff and then use the blanking plate kit that's on ebay to seal it up and should there be a kit for the rear diff as per pic 1 there seems a lot of some sort of oil around it.
2. whats this unit in the engine bay to the right rear pic 2
3. also found this snugged away at the rhs of the engine bay and it looks like some sort of switch, didn't want to touch it just in case. but at some time additional wires had been spliced onto the wires so I put insulating tape around the exposed wire sections. pic 3
4. found a wire will a spade connector loose behind the drivers rear wheel that doesn't appear to have anywhere to go except scrape off the rear anti roll bar. pic 4.
5. also noticed that when switched to sport mode there is only access to first and second with foot-brake applied, should you not be able to increase it to third and forth as a test ?? ( not able to drive car to verify this )
6. the rear washer is not working and after removing the bottom of the cover under the bumper I removed both pipes and water flowed no problems. I then disconnected at the tailgate before the one way valve and there was still no flow.what direction does the tubing going to the rear washer take as I can find no leaks anywhere inside or outside the car.
7. oh and he gets the F4 on display intermittently along with a yellow hill descent led. I believe the F4 is fixed by adjusting the Parking portion of the gear box cable is that correct.
8. how can you tell if you have a bmw engine or not ?
Sorry for such a long entry but I'am a novice ( learning fast ) with land-rover products.
thanks for any help you can provide
regards
brendan
I was helping a friend with his 2003 automatic td4 freelander today and found a couple of oddities:
1. the previous owner had removed the prop-shaft to the rear diff from the middle while leaving the front to the middle section in place.
I know that this is quite common practice (from reading up about it ) to remove the drive shaft but is it best to remove all shafts back to the diff and then use the blanking plate kit that's on ebay to seal it up and should there be a kit for the rear diff as per pic 1 there seems a lot of some sort of oil around it.
2. whats this unit in the engine bay to the right rear pic 2
3. also found this snugged away at the rhs of the engine bay and it looks like some sort of switch, didn't want to touch it just in case. but at some time additional wires had been spliced onto the wires so I put insulating tape around the exposed wire sections. pic 3
4. found a wire will a spade connector loose behind the drivers rear wheel that doesn't appear to have anywhere to go except scrape off the rear anti roll bar. pic 4.
5. also noticed that when switched to sport mode there is only access to first and second with foot-brake applied, should you not be able to increase it to third and forth as a test ?? ( not able to drive car to verify this )
6. the rear washer is not working and after removing the bottom of the cover under the bumper I removed both pipes and water flowed no problems. I then disconnected at the tailgate before the one way valve and there was still no flow.what direction does the tubing going to the rear washer take as I can find no leaks anywhere inside or outside the car.
7. oh and he gets the F4 on display intermittently along with a yellow hill descent led. I believe the F4 is fixed by adjusting the Parking portion of the gear box cable is that correct.
8. how can you tell if you have a bmw engine or not ?
Sorry for such a long entry but I'am a novice ( learning fast ) with land-rover products.
thanks for any help you can provide
regards
brendan
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