Thread: No drive from rear in my Discovery 1 only drive from front?

Broken rear axle?

Originally Posted by sheerluck

Broken rear axle?

Agreed, and easy to check. Pull your rear axles - I think you'll find a bit stays behind in the diff...

Oh, and welcome to the forum. If you ask around here (in the markets section) I'm sure someone would have a set of axles they would part with for a fair price.

Cheers - Gav

Hi Dave, If I can spin both wheels on rear and it moves The opposite wheel this means the axles are ok and if I spin both at the same time and the tailshaft spins this means diff is ok, so might be something in transfer case?

Originally Posted by Pinchy

Hi Dave, If I can spin both wheels on rear and it moves The opposite wheel this means the axles are ok and if I spin both at the same time and the tailshaft spins this means diff is ok, so might be something in transfer case?

Pull the hand brake on and get some one to stop the other wheel and try again.
There was a member with a similar thing on one of our trips.
It wasn't till he hit the harder train till it showed up also.
It drove OK but had a broken axle in the rear.

And welcome to AULRO

Pinchy, if you hunt on here, you'll find that there's a number of similar tales, and how Rover axles "are made of cheese". It's probably preferable to have the drivetrain break a $100 axle, rather than a $1000 transfer case!

It'll take you an hour to remove and check both axles. It's worth checking the easy to get to stuff first than go straight for the biggie.

Originally Posted by Pinchy

I went for a drive over weekend and got stuck up hill and noticed I only had drive from 1 front wheel and nothing at all from the rear, any ideas. Tried Hi and Low range and diff lock but no change, no noises were heard and could still drive home and around no with no trouble. can spin both rear wheels and will not spin front when up on stands, used to be able to spin rear wheels together and front would spin as well.

Then you would have to have been in diff lock all the time for it to even move off you drive if there was no power to the wheels on the rear.

Remember technically land rovers are only one wheel drive. If you have one wheel hanging in the air all the drive will go that wheel you will go no where. And when in diff lock is only two wheel drive if you cross axle and have two wheels in the air ( one on each axle ) then you are also not going anywhere.

Need diff lockers to make them really 4 wheel drive.

Try engaging the centre diff lock .

Originally Posted by garrycol

Try engaging the centre diff lock .

That's what my immediate thought was...

Don't make assumptions guys. Make sure you cover the basics before launching in with the broken axle / knackered diff theories.

M