Thread: Att! 2007 Defender engine sump gets damaged

It will make from your figures about 1cm of difference - and as perhaps you mean - if that brings the u-joint into contact with the sump, then the clearance is far too little. Note that with RHD the situation may well be worse if it is that little clearance - the nearest to horizontal the bar gets is full spring deflection on the left side, and while crossaxling it will not make the situation worse, note that the sump gets wider further up, so it must be awfully close at full bump on both sides. But here lifting will make the situation better, not worse, as it will move it further away from the sump.

But the clearance must be pretty small for the problem to arise in any conditions - I can just visualise a stick coming up and jamming between them.

John