That's what I was thinking -thanks for the price.

Yep, from my own experience, you have to remove that lovely swivel ball, all 7 bihex screws, and put them back on with threadlock.

Thanks for the suggestion, andy66; that seems an interesting idea, the only snag being that surely involving an engineering company will be more expensive than merely buying a recon box. Or are they so likely to leak again that people do this type of mod in desperation? Not trying to be...

Well, I've found the fault, or faults, if anybodies interested; the dickhead previous owner thought that it would make everything go much better if he put an 1/8" washer at the bottom, between the swivel housing and the swivel ball - this throws everything out and caused the big seal to not seat...

Thanks for the replies; I'm starting to think that the bits and pieces aren't assembled right, and I will have to strip them down and put one or more new bearings in. Any other ideas?

Thanks for the quick reply, but I looked very carefully at how squarely the seal was being held when I first had this trouble, and it seems to be fine - I took great care when first installing to avoid this sort of problem. Any other suggestions will be gratefully recieved. John.

This apparently is a perennial problem with boxes on this type of steering - the Adwest Lightweight - there is a bad leak from the seal that is fitted on the cylinder cover that holds the piston in. It seems to be a bad design, with a looseish cover and a seal that's not deep enough to do its...

This problem has got me stumped, so any help would much appreciated; I've just replaced the big seals (the ones about 7" across if I'm not explaining this very well) on the front axle on both sides, the ones sealing the swivel pin housing against the swivel ball, and it seemed to be job well...

Many thanks you lovely, lovely man; this is what I thought must be the case, so I can now save a bit of money thanks to you!

Here's hoping someone can answer my query about 90 and 110 rear axle ratios ; I just bought an agricultural vehicles which has Landrover axles fitted. However, the diff ratios are special ; instead of the standard ratio (I think) of 3.54:1, mine has 4.7:1, which is a bit of a bugger as one of...