Thread: Defender Pulling to the left

My 1995 defender 130 always pulled to the left. Had to drive with a little right hand down on the steering wheel. Didn't think much of it, figured it was the road camber.
Over the last few months I've rebushed everything with superpro and replace all the balljoints.
Took it down to pedders for a wheel alignment, attached are the results.
Drives perfect now, although a little hard to get used to not pulling right hand down on the steering wheel.

Factory toe setting should be 0 to -2mm (toe out, not toe in)

You may get a little wander with road camber but generally the car will turn and point better into a corner.

Being a drive axle it will tend to 'pull' the front of the tyres towards each other anyway.

Just your LR going down the drain go far enuff north will go the other way
a hemisphere thing Something more practical As a matter of course I always turned the stub axles 180 degrees if I had them off Many moons ago
you could also get a camber correction shim

AM

Well I'm glad I'm not the only person experiencing this problem . . .

I was a bit concerned when I first drove my new 2012 90 with only 32km on the clock and it pulled left!

Looks like I'll have to talk to the dealer next year then.

maybe this thread might help?????
Defender2 - View topic - Brand new Puma drifting to the left

Originally Posted by sashadidi

maybe this thread might help?????
Defender2 - View topic - Brand new Puma drifting to the left

That was mine.

Sounds like Carvs is experiencing the same issue: if you let go of the steering wheel at >60kmh, you end up in the scenery!

My single cab 2010 130 has pulled to the left since day one, I took it to a place that does all of my prime movers steering and suspension, they found the problem, came up with a cost and solution...land rover won't come to the party despite me bringing it up on every service in the last 3yrs.
The steering specialists said that the 4wd f250 fords had exactly the same issue and the fix was a common one, to remove the swivel housing, elongate or notch the 6 bolts holes that hold it to the axle housing, rotate the swivel as required and put everything back together with a securing weld. I will keep going higher up in land rover as the dealers arnt listening to the professionals in this area, despite anyone driving it agreeing that it does pull to the left.

Originally Posted by Summiitt

My single cab 2010 130 has pulled to the left since day one, I took it to a place that does all of my prime movers steering and suspension, they found the problem, came up with a cost and solution...land rover won't come to the party despite me bringing it up on every service in the last 3yrs.
The steering specialists said that the 4wd f250 fords had exactly the same issue and the fix was a common one, to remove the swivel housing, elongate or notch the 6 bolts holes that hold it to the axle housing, rotate the swivel as required and put everything back together with a securing weld. I will keep going higher up in land rover as the dealers arnt listening to the professionals in this area, despite anyone driving it agreeing that it does pull to the left.

So it's a castor issue and they are increasing it, I'm guessing on the LHS only.
The same thing is done with Patrol's, only you use an eccentric bush in the swivel bearings.
Had this done quite a few years ago to our Patrol and it stopped the pull to the left.

That mod (sans the tack weld, if you really want to you can scotch key it instead) is what a lot of us do to reset the castor once we've lifted the front end.

A similar result can be achieved by using the extended radius arm bush that Super Pro make on the LHS arm as I mentioned in a post above.