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  1. 13th July 2006, 06:01 PM #1
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    Question slight vibration at 100 klicks

    Hi all, have recently purchased my first Land Rover a couple of weeks ago and i love it. Its a 03' Disco TD5 S Auto 7 seater. Very comfortable and i feel like a King surveying the plebs when driving. They have a great driving position. Not sure if anyone else feels this way.....Anyway when i was taking the rugrats into Brisvegas last week, there was a train beside the highway so i stopped so they could have a squizz as it went past. I had to bury the right foot to get up to speed again and now i seem to have a small vibration coming through the floor and seat when you get up to around 97 km/h onwards. I haven't hit any big potholes or curbs, so i don't think its a wheel vibration. Its not much, but i don't want something go on me later because i didn't get onto it straight away. Before i ring a Land Rover mechanic i thought i would put the question out there if anyone else has had this problem or what should i do to try and elimanate sources, ie tyres, diff etc. One thought i had was maybe there was something had gone slightly out of balance after i had given it a good hammer getting up to a 100 k's. I haven't had a Turbo vehicle before so i don't know much about them. Vehicle has done approx 108,000 k's.

    Any thoughts or advice ??
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  2. 13th July 2006, 06:18 PM #2
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    Order of priority:

    Wheel balance

    then drive shafts
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    i would start by getting the tyres re-balanced.....
    the vibration was probably there all along...maybe you just didnt sit on that speed long enough to notice it.....
    i dont think you would have done any damage just by taking off a bit quicker than normal.....
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    ps.....when you get a balance...ask them if they could take the time to balance your tyres to zero....
    most places balance down to 5 grams....meaning if it is still 5 grams out they wont worry about it....
    which on a large wheel with a bit of speed is just not good enough....
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    Pump grease into the drive shaft splines on both of the prop shafts. You can get this if they are a bit dry.

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  6. 13th July 2006, 06:50 PM #6
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    100k's vibration

    Quote Originally Posted by DEFENDERZOOK
    i would start by getting the tyres re-balanced.....
    the vibration was probably there all along...maybe you just didnt sit on that speed long enough to notice it.....
    i dont think you would have done any damage just by taking off a bit quicker than normal.....

    Thanks all for the advice, I bought the Disco a couple of hours away from home in Nothern NSW at Lennox heads, Nice scenery around there.... so i had a good chance to study how it drove at that speed for a good 2 hours and change back to Ipswich. That was the only reason i noticed it straight away a couple of days later. Mind you the missus had driven it for an hour or two the day before i noticed the vibration.....I will look into the tyres and drive shaft to start off with.
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  7. 13th July 2006, 06:59 PM #7
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    Not to likely but the output shaft bolt on my transfer cas was comming loose. It started like you described but I didn't notice till it got to a loud and heavy vibration. Once I fixed it my brain realised that it had been slowly increasing over the last couple of months.
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    Quote Originally Posted by George130
    Not to likely but the output shaft bolt on my transfer cas was comming loose. It started like you described but I didn't notice till it got to a loud and heavy vibration. Once I fixed it my brain realised that it had been slowly increasing over the last couple of months.
    hmmmmmmmmm food for my thoughts......
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    Quote Originally Posted by incisor
    hmmmmmmmmm food for my thoughts......
    Inc It took a friend who hadn't been in it for a few weeks to point out that it had gotten a lot noisier and that you could feel the vibration in the floor. Made me feel quite silly for not noticing.
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  10. 14th July 2006, 08:26 PM #10
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    Found this problem when I removed the g/box from the County. The nyloc nuts on both output shafts on the t/case were loose.So any doubts I would replace them with new nylocs. Also check the bolts and nuts that connect your propshafts at both ends.
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