Thanks for the suggestions, i did have the anti rattle springs on, good suggestion about the stiff piston though, i will assemble again tomorrow and thanks for the ideas. I have brought a new lower pin and it is much tighter than the old one, in fact i can not get the bearing on it at the...

just an update, because i think i'm loosing it ! Put it in for an MOT thursday and it passed no problem !! so spent yesterday stripping down the offside hub etc down to the swivel housing, everything seems fine, although i think the swivel pins were a bit too tight. When i rebuilt it a few...

Hi I have a defender 90, 2000, td5, recently changed all wheel bearings, front swivel joints, brake discs, pads - the lot. shortly after finnishing the job and feeling good about it all, i get a cyclic noise from the front off side wheel , sounds like a stone in the tyre, but it goes as soon...

Mistery solved ! after posting this i thought i'd give it one more try - guess what the washer came loose, however the hub didn't come off easily. so after again a lot of pulling and banging it all came apart. The problem is much worse than i thought the inner bearing case had broken up and the...

so might help if i say whay it is : defender 90 year 2000, disk brakes on the rear

Right - oil leaking from rear hub all over brake calipers and being thrown around. so reading the forums brought new oil seals, lock washers nuts, gaskets etc ready for the job. Removed wheel, brake caliper, half shaft all no problem, opened up staking on the big nut holding the hub on -...

Fanatic ok thanks for that i'll have a look at it tomorrow, dont want it to burn out again and cause more hastle.

HI All I have a defender 90 hard top, 1999 TD5. Last week whie driving down the motorway i noticed the rear fog lamp indicator kept coming on whenever i braked ! thought it must be a fault earth somewhere and didn't give it much thought. Then when i got home i switched off the wagon and the...

Ratty Thanks for the info, by the look of it i have the last type of fuel filter ( the one with the wires coming out of it). I'll have a go at draining it over the weeekend as its too dark when i get home from work. Thanks again for the information.

Hi just got a 90 td5, and this morning the sediment warning light came on. I have looked in the user manual and it says about draining the water from the fuel filter, however the pictures of the fuel filter are nothing like the actual one on the truck. We have a Merc van at work and have done...

Hi everybody