Today I replace the front driveshaft in my Land Rover Discovery II.
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This Week With Cars – Episode 00114
Replacing Land Rover Discovery II Front Driveshaft
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Good job you spotted that, it would have made a right mess if that had gone properly!
Very helpful, thank you
I have never found a British car that did not leak oil and grease. Why can't the get simple seals right.
This was such a perfect video. Informative and right to the point. Bravo
Is there any major difference between the Proline and Land Rover authentic shafts? The prices are night and day.
How long can you drive it after u disengage the CDL?
Lots of leaks under that thing.
Judging by the oil leaks, doesnt look like anyone has taken a look under that car for some time
Hello from Australia – this is great! Don't need to do anything on the Disco 2 yet – driveshafts look in great order after I had a good look today – will need to grease them though after reading great tips from @Martin Rawly above! Given I've done around 140,000 miles, is it worth maybe me changing the 4 UJs purely as a preventative maintenance measure? Don't like the idea of that sealed double UJ (double-cardon, Hughes joint) in the front prop shaft. Do you know what the bearing is on this one? Might have to get a bearing remover tool?
How easy is this? Just got a Disco II and I need to replace the shaft lol
Neglected maintnance plus low quality steel at time of manufacture for cost reasons.
Somebody had been ignoring that failed UV joint and driving with it banging around for quite some time.
A CV joint would be better than multiple UVs. Whether anybody makes such a driveshaft, I don't know.
You were very lucky! Very soon that driveshaft would have broken in half and flogged around and destroyed your transmission. It happens regularly.
BTW 2002 In Australia and I think everywhere does NOT have the CDL mechanism at all. I had to get another transfer case and transfer the diff lock mechanism and buy a linkage set up.
One of the causes is that the aircon drain is directly above that UJ. I have added some 1/2 inch irrigation hose to redirect the water.
Reliability wise in the USA you are a bit unlucky not to have TD5s. IMHO in the longer term the tD5 is far more reliable than the V8 although they do also have a few quirks, which are well known and can be addressed pretty cheaply.
Great video
I really like this channel
Really honest, straight to the point with thankfully no sponsorship promotions ! Keep them coming !!!
I always seem to learn from your videos. I would have to agree on getting the tripe u-joint done professionally, good advice.
Man I thought my rover leaked pretty bad but this one makes mine look like it just came off the showroom floor
Hi Steve how are you.. I was looking in my toolbox the other day and found the special waisted long socket made for the drive shaft (propshaft in the UK) for my now sold early 3 door diesel discovery 200 DTi. It had more conventional type U joints with not very good access for normal sockets thus the long waisted middle sockets were made and sold. I only used It the once on my old Disco, but have used it on other vehicles since..Thanks for the video.. Ian – UK.
That u joint must have been banging around for a while
Hey a quick question
What did you use to plug the holes on the cylinder head of the XJ6 when you deleted the air pump?
Out come all the "har-de-har" Land Rover jokers…
As a Land Rover specialist here in the UK for over 30 years, never use cheap and cheerful UJ joints as they fail in under 3000 miles. Always use Hardy Spicer which are genuine to Landy's. One of my customers had a Disco 300 TDI and he had it serviced every 10,000 miles and we greased the props every service and they did over 500,000 miles without a joint being replaced.