Thread: Huge steering shake

Have you looked at wheel balancing u say you drove through a lot of branches on the road maybe you lost some wheel balance weights, just a thought

Thanks Guys,

I've just never been sold on poly ... the few times I've tried it on different cars ... it just wasn't right. It either didn't last, or the NVH went through the roof I just checked roverparts in ballarat. And interestingly Sean only lists genuine bushes ... There only $10bucks each. Guess what I'm going to try next . I'm sure he'll know if his bushes are crap.

I moved the panhard rod from the other car to it (until I can get upto roverparts) and yes, the shake has instantly been fixed.... bloody weird, the steering is also heavier and back to it's normal self too.

seeya,
Shane L.

Yeah yeah, you tried poly, it was crap, heard it all before! BUT have you tried super pro?
Its not like normal poly. So much info on here its ridiculous! The only nay sayers, are those that tried 'poly' once! I think that was back in 1988!😊

I had cheap poly bushes chop out in the same sort of ks as OP. The shake appeared suddenly and over 60kph was deadly.

Put in Superpro (And using their lube that comes with the bushes) and so far so good. About 1500klm so far and looking at them today they show nil signs of degradation. Cheers

Last time I had flogged pH bushes all I got was vague steering and no vibrations.

I'd still do a wheel balance, even tho it has settled with the change of rod... If the panhard was the cause in the first place, it may have created other issues now... Suspension faults have a tendency to play havoc on other parts connected to it...

As for Nolathane, if installed with the grease it comes with, I've experienced good life out of the bushes, in all sorts of situations...

Used in many a vehicle and a lot of heavy work and dusty, muddy and around the sand country... Always went well and lasted longer..

That don't mean I wont use original parts tho, some times its better getting original, but that depends if its original manufacturer... After market original is too hit n miss...

Thanks Guys,

I'll get to it. I need to get the car home first. The damn thing cut out while I was driving home tonight.... The first time I've ever had a Range Rover stop on me ... It just cruised to a halt like the ignition was cut. I tried both petrol and gas while it was coasting to a halt, but no go on either (so obviously ignition).

Anyway, I checked all of the wiring, bypassed the AEB ignition advance model ( not a cracker ). WHipped the dizzie cap off ... no cracks, everything looked fine. I got one of the kids to crank the motor while I had a coil lead off...and the spark looked ok ... Hmm, spark and fuel... that leaves only timing. So I whipped the cap back off and tried the advance weights ... it felt wrong, then I felt the "pop" of the springs falling off the advance weight ( you must be god damn kidding me, not this caper again). Did I touch the rotor button before though when I checked the dizzie cap ?? I can't remember so this might be unrelated. This is going to take time now, so I ring the boss women to come and collect us... and whip the dizzie out to take with me.

What a bastard of a design this is. At home in the shed, I pull the top off and reconnect the springs. It snaps back nicely and seems to be working perfectly.....

So back in the dark and rain again in the boss womens car dizzie in hand. Spend ages trying to find compression stroke on number 1.... I think I've got it so I drop the dizzie in ... then back out a couple of times trying to get the rotor button pointing at No1.... I get it right, and give the dizzie button a quick flick to make sure the it's still right ................. and it flops around everywhere ... the springs are off again .................... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... I did this last god damn time. I must have lifted the bloody thing up by the rotor button ( again ) like I did a couple of years back and pull the springs back off.....

So I whip the dizzie off ... go sit in the back of the boot of the rangie so I won't loose anything, then under torch light pull it down ... not only the springs are off, the centripetal weights are off too ??

So I re-assembled ... and find the springs 2mm to long ... so they fall off (obviously it is assembled incorrectly).... I then spend 40 bloody minutes trying to assemble it .... NOT getting the damn thing right so the springs would fit ... my mouth was aching from holding the torch in it ... Talk about getting frustrated..... Then I dropped a spring. It had to be there ... right on the carpet ... under my nose.... 10minutes of searching under torchlight makes me realise, yes one of the bloody springs is gone ( where damn it ... where ?? ).

I'd pretty much had a gut full, so I took the dizzie back to the boss womens car and sat on the front seat under the interior light and tried to get it at least assembled until I could chase up an extra spring. In the end, sadly no land rover designer had walked past so I could return the damn distributor to land rover.... via suppository... So I figured I'd go home and try to find a diagram of how the lump of excrement assembles. Hey, on the positive side I foudn the missing spring about then... attached to the magnetic pickup (the pickup had "caught" it as it fell)

Well I'm off to search for diagram of how the damn thing goes back together ................ Unless of course a land rover designer wanders past... In which case I will happily return the dizzie to it's designer

seeya,
Shane L.

Oh dear!