Thread: Bang:

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

NO A FRAME JOINTS ON A D2!!!!
OK a couple of checks.Mine was doing this on speed humps when I first got it.The watts linkage hade been re-bushed,it had been put in upside down,one of the links was hitting the diff!!!!
Next,I get clunks and bangs since my polyairs went in.My spacers dont sit flat and refuse to do so,Ive levered them to where they are meant to be but they conform to the spring pitch,Im guessing there is a possible clung here.
Also after speaking with Ken,he inherited a clunk with a new suspension kit.Im wondering if the watts link bushes are worn to one position,when disturbed with new suspension,or polyairs in your case which equates some sort of lift,the clunk may be in there!!!!
Andrew

Hey landyAndy. I have been down the road on the Famous watts link clunk and got a bit creative one day by putting electrical tape on the watts link were it could bind with other metal only to find that there were no marks or cuts were it could touch the diff or other metel so I ruled out the watts link.

Forgive me, the newest any thing, I have ever had is my 79 model S3.

Traction Control can't be turned off? And what, please explain, is CDL?

S'okay, just worked it out. Central Diff Lock. Right?

Oh my, your poor little truck. And it's an Auto. The poor bloody thing has every thing going against itself full time. Especially, that public servant, of a Traction Control system. For ever slamming the brakes on, because it thinks you have lost control.

Next week good old "some boffin", will tell a journalist that man kind is too important and fragile to be allowed to actually operate the vehicle themselves, and must employ a "trained technician" to chauffer them.
And then good old Harold Scroobie will rant about our unsafe behemoth people killers. And demand the computer take full control of the vehicle, for "pedestrian safety" of course.

What ever happened to actually driving the vehicle ourselves. What ever happened, to the concept of the driver, actually being in control of the vehicle.

Any how, back to this bang. Some how, I think it is related to the TC set up.
If any wheel breaks traction in any way, it will speed up in relation to the rest. The computer will slam on the brakes. And if the wheel is in the air, it will stop with a bang. Then start again with a bang as power comes back on.

Try not going over bumps?

Sorry Will. I am the definitive Luddite.
The only help posts, for the older models? Where can I obtain an old some thing, and not very many of those.
For the new models, it is always the "computer" and "TC". And every model.
Sell the modern head ache and buy a "real" Land Rover.
And no, I don't want to buy a newer Landy.
And double no, I will Not be selling my S3.
No traction control, no ABS, no ECU, no buttons to push at all. A total drivers joy. And if it goes bang?
Don't worry, what ever it was, the Landy has "brushed" it out of the way.


Shorty.