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You can change just the bearings and reuse vcu, but changing vcu and reusing bearings is false economy and most likely you will damage old bearings getting them off the old vcu anyway. Best place to get a vcu and fitting in your local area, mmmm let me think........ --------v v v v v v v v v v...

Recon vcu with bearings and fitting is £300. BTW nice speed triple in your avatar (I have a tiger 1050l

A diff going won't damage a vcu, but the vcu is a very likely cause of the diff failure. I've driven a freelander round with a grinding diff, it was fine until it collapsed on the motorway, locked rear wheels for an second or so, bit of a skid, massive bang and the diff split in half. I drove it...

Most likely front offside inner CV joint, but could be any of the 4. If its a bit dry it comes and goes. Check for rotational play and any splits in the boot

Depends which ones your bought, some of the cheap ones you are lucky if they last a week. Take prop off and spin the bearings you can usually hear or feel if they are noisey

Its a known issue, hundreds of rear diffs have been changed under warranty and the haldex unit gets reflashed to change the characteristics to hopefully stop it happening again. The post 09 freelanders had an uprated rear diff fitted (larger bearings) and the haldex until changed for the later...

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Its less likely to be the gearbox, it was only you saying its was squirrelly at the rear that made me suggest it was rear wheel drive only. If you take the rear wheels off the ground and just try the biting point of the clutch, If the car tries to move gearbox is fine. If its only rwd then its...

Just read about rear drive issue/slide, have you Defo got front wheel drive?? Just wondering if you only have rear drive due to gearbox fault, and all that extra weight when towing is overloading rear diff. Doubt it as I'd have thought it would cause issue with rear diff. Just something else to...

Are tires all same make and model and worn the same? You need to increase rear tire pressure when towing to stop tires compressing. Check temp of vcu after a few miles of a relatively straight journey. Luke warm to the touch is the hottest you want. Was there a smell of gas when seals popped...

Teddy is talking rubbish I'm afraid, ;) most vcu failures cause too much strain on drive line as its too tight not too soft. You have 3 possible issue, or a combination of them 1. Vcu is too tight 2. The extra weight on the rear of the car when towing has reduced the the rear tire rolling...

Oh and yes we could supply vcu's in lots of various tunes if required

Its was trial and error as my contacts within LR could not find a specification for the actual fluid as the unit was supplied by gkn. I guess lr told gkn what they wanted the vcu to do, gkn designed it and supplied it. Speaking to gkn direct gave us no indication to what the fluid grade was or...

Oh BTW my temps are just estimates, no thermometer readings ;) and temp of the fluid inside the vcu is going to be hotter than the outside of the vcu, defo just estimates ;)

The graph is for a vw, not the freelander, we tried different grades of fluid when working out how to refurb them, different fluids thicken at different temperatures. Remember the free lander vcu is designed to slip all the time, not sure if that's the case with the vw. I can guarantee you at...

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No not heated it up like that I'm afraid. And I know this isnt scientific, but if the vcu is to warm comfortably hold you hand on, the vcu will momentarily lock, I know this as I had a freebie lock its rear wheels on me while slowing down coming to see t of traffic lights. At this stage the rear...

Yes same plates and fluid. Temperature will make a small difference, but would need to be fairly extreme. For example in the really cold spell we had the barrel was harder to pour. But the difference in temp of say 5 - 20 degs is minimal

We are close by, so ideal when it breaks ;)

Its the same unit in operation, but v6 has no damper or the mounting face for it. Also the hanger bearings have a 25mm spacer on them to hang it lower. But to be honest you can just run a normal one in its place