Thread: Defender Steering and Clunks.

Thanks to everyone for their help, sorry its taken so long to repost, I've been under the fender to much over the weekend.

Well to fill everyone in, I ended up tossing the current steering box and getting a second hand one as well as the pitman arm and ball joint for $250. It took awhile to get it in but she handles beautifully now.

I managed to narrow down the clunking noise to the transfer case with the help of Anthony from British 4wd imports over in Montrose Victoria, (I also got the spares from him, fantastic fellow to deal with). So I took the drain plug out only to discover that there was 300mls of oil left in it. Not bad for a box that is supposed to hold 2.5 litres. Anyway I topped it up and all seemed good, hardly any clunking and no leaks after taking it for a spin. Just a very small amount of backlash in the drivetrain.

Then today I went to visit my grandmother and I parked the fender in her driveway facing downhill, by the time we got back from church it had managed to leak most of the contents of the transfer case past the front seal onto my grandmothers clean driveway. So it doesn't leak when its facing uphill or on a level but going downhill it does. Shouldn't take to much to put a new seal in anyway.

Ohh, and its a 95 300tdi 110 defender.