Thread: What did you do on your Defender today ? (well, this week anyway)

Might be a good place to pop this....got a bang in the left rear of 2002 defender.......also ripped two bilsteins apart ...left rear.... I’m reconing bushes a frame bushes and ball joint........sticking in superpros so I don’t have to burn bushes out in the side of the road some where inconvenient ......trailing arms done snd dusted and 2 of 3 a frame mounts lossened hand tight...one half of then my mate gets sconed[close to no clarret]. By this,
Anyone had it happen ? ...and if you can’t find a bang look there lol

A mate had it happen. Drove home (about 200kms) with it all held together with fencing wire.
Yours is only the second I've heard of, will be interesting to see if you get any other responses.

What is it? Sorry I don’t recognise the part

Aren't they the mounts for the front of one of the A-frame arms?

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Aren't they the mounts for the front of one of the A-frame arms?

Yes with a section of chassis atached with remaining bolt

Originally Posted by Xtreme

A mate had it happen. Drove home (about 200kms) with it all held together with fencing wire.
Yours is only the second I've heard of, will be interesting to see if you get any other responses.

Yea I kinda don’t expect to get many

I have managed to get the upper suspension arms and the old ball joint removed but am unable to undo the castellated nut.

I have heated it several times with a propane torch, drowned it with deep creep, tried moving with a 600mm long bar on the end of the socket but the slippery little sucker moved around in the vice. I just can’t get it tight enough not to slip. Have also attacked with an impact hammer. Nothing...

At least the old bushes pushed out with no issues let’s hope the new ones go in as easily!

Originally Posted by travelrover

I have managed to get the upper suspension arms and the old ball joint removed but am unable to undo the castellated nut.

I have heated it several times with a propane torch, drowned it with deep creep, tried moving with a 600mm long bar on the end of the socket but the slippery little sucker moved around in the vice. I just can’t get it tight enough not to slip. Have also attacked with an impact hammer. Nothing...

At least the old bushes pushed out with no issues let’s hope the new ones go in as easily!

I did mine yesterday arvo. I loosened the castellated nut before I removed the ball joint from the vehicle, it took my long 3/4" breaker bar and my foot on the diff, tight little bugger!
You could try drilling a couple of holes in your bench and bolting it down or bolting it back onto the diff.
Good luck.

Cheers,
Stan.