The later, single "staked" nut. I followed the Haynes setup procedure: checked the bearings and packed them with lithium-based grease fitted the hub onto the stub-axle tightened the axle-nut to 30lb.ft (my torque-wrench isn't marked in Nm!) spun the wheel and pulled/pushed it to settle the...

Hello, I've just spent the weekend doing exactly this - where have you read that 2.2kg is over the recommended preload? The Haynes for my 110 Td5 says (Section 9.6 - para 24) "If the bearing preload is correct, a weight (force) of approximately 3.6 to 4.5kg (36 to 45N) will be required to...

Hello, right, I've put the hubs and wheels back on, tightened everything up as per the manual and taken it for a test drive. On the plus side, there's no grease leaking from the swivels, so the seals are presumably still sealed and nothing catastrophic has happened there. On the minus...

I've pushed a few wires through the rubber gaiters that the heater control cables go through - on my Td5, the gaiter's right behind the dash. I also fitted a kill-switch (to stop the battery going flat when I was re-building it), but mounted it in the passenger foot-well, on the front of the...

Thanks for that. Setting the pre-load is pain in the arse to do - Haynes says about 3kg~5kg is what I'm aiming for - I've got the first side at about 6kg, but I'm expecting that to drop off once it's worn in a bit...do you think I should take the pin out and put another shim in? Whoever it...

Hello, well, this job has just taken a bit of a frustrating turn... I've stripped down the swivel housing and found that the reason the swivel-joint grease was leaking out past the seal was because the housing was somehow loose on the swivel pins. When I took the housing assembly off...

Hello, you were quite right - it was rusted on: Luckily, I was able to borrow the mother of all pullers and draw the flange off the shaft... Thanks for your advice :)

I mounted bog standard 12V worklights on my roof-rack - two at the back and one on each side: They're on a switch down by the fog-light switch rather than triggered off the reverse lights. That was a while ago - everything's LED these days, so if I did it again I'd probably go for one of the...

True...still a pain in the bum to do, though :(

Thanks for that - I have to say, I don't fancy cutting it...brute-force and ignorance it is :)

Hello, I'd go for it - re-chassis and rebuild it. I replaced the chassis and bulkhead for galvanised on mine about four years ago...a word of warning, though - I also ended up replacing the seat-box, all the bushes, all the chassis brackets, the roof, the dampers, the steering-box, most of...

Hello, I'm part way through changing the swivel-joint seals on my Td5 Defender. I've done one side, so now I'm starting work on the other side. While removing the hub drive flange, I've hit a problem which I'm hoping somebody else has encountered and can offer me advice on. The...

Thanks both :) I was tempted by a grease gun off a WWII tank that turned up on eBay recently, but everything I read said they're a bit of a pain to fill as you can't bleed them. That one off amazon looks good enough for me - and it comes with a cartridge, so they must fit in the stupid thing!

Hello, I'm posting this here, because I can't think where else to post it, to be quite honest. I've just come from under my 110, where I'd intended to grease the propshafts and whatever else presented an accessible grease nipple. I had to give up, though, as my grease gun wouldn't...

Thanks for not commenting on the panhard rod bolt :) My replacement track rod end turned up today, so I put everything back together and took it out for a drive. It's definitely a lot better - no speed-wobble and the steering's not as light as it was. It still feels a bit vague and "wandery"...

Hmm.. Well, I'd estimate the torque on the axle end bolt to be about 0lb.ft - it's now 65lb.ft as per the Haynes manual. I have to say, that's rather an embarrassing turn of events - I can't imagine it worked its way loose, as it's nylock, so I must have forgotten to torque it properly when I...

Hello all, Thanks very much for all your advice and encouragement :) The movement in the panhard rod is along the rod itself - there's no play across the Bush at all. To me, it seems just deformation of the Bush, but I'm going to check the torque on the mounting bolt, as it moved slightly when...

Oh yeah, I checked the panhard rod bushes and there's a bit of movement at the axle-end (2-3mm axially) but that seems within tolerance to me...

Good point - despite my best efforts, it leaked a bit, though. I've managed to improve things a bit: O/S: 3.5kg - > 6.5kg N/S: 0.5kg - > 5kg I basically removed a thin shim from each side. I can't re-fit the tracking rod, though, as my ends have turned up but only one of them is for a...

Ah ha, well then, will do. Thanks very much for your help :)