Thread: wondering defender

Damaged steering damper?

Originally Posted by harro

Damaged steering damper?

If a damaged steering damper caused wandering, it would be because it was covering up another fault before it was damaged. The steering damper is intended to reduce steering kickback when a wheel hits a bump. Defenders do not rely on it for anything else, with primary damping at the swivels.

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

If a damaged steering damper caused wandering, it would be because it was covering up another fault before it was damaged. The steering damper is intended to reduce steering kickback when a wheel hits a bump. Defenders do not rely on it for anything else, with primary damping at the swivels.

John

Good points John but speaking from experience if the operation of the damper is resticted by damage as in bent or the sleeve damaged or somthing caught between the sleeves this will restrict the steering from self centering and the vehicle will tend to wander.

Cheers.

Originally Posted by stig0000

no i was with him the hole time, an it wasent very hard stuff we were on, there was one bit that was rutted an you had to hit it sorta hard cos the diffs were touching, it was all soft mud tho so nothing hard we hit,

no its not lifted, it has never done this befor an has come all of a suden,, its been uesd but not abused,,

I know you've said it's been wheel aligned since, but the stock tie rod and drag links are about as strong as a piece of spaghetti and one bump off-road and they bend, giving chronic amounts of toe out which makes any vehicle wander and follow all the little undulations and camber changes on the road.