Thread: defender steering assembly question

Hi guys, have a very newbie question regarding steering assembly on my TD5 defender. Have it a few weeks now and while attaching a new bumper I noticed something which I'm sure isn't right...

Here's a shot of the right hand assembly:

https://sites.google.com/a/whybintbwa.com.au/shared_images/steering

And here's a shot of the left:

https://sites.google.com/a/whybintbwa.com.au/shared_images/steering2

All diagrams I've seen online show both right and left wheel assemblies attached to the track rod. It's been a few yrs since my last defender so I can't remember if it's right and have no Haynes manual at hand. The steering is horrible when driving it, bringing it in for a service on Monday

Any advice is appreciated, cheers

Originally Posted by rijidij

I think they did a common casting of the housing allowing for left and right hand drive versions, so one of the arms isn't used.......just some extra weight for you to lugg around with you and burn up some extra fuel so they could save a little production cost I'd guess.

Cheers, Murray

Oh, was thinking that might be the case but thought I'd better check!
Thanks mate