paul18k

i think they have managed to make the new flander look softer i prefer the last model but thats just my personal taste whats the drive train like, same problematic ird??

where should i be looking for the chassis number and engine number on a 1999 flander please, no silly answers like "look on the chassis" and "look on the engine" i'm a little dumb so need a little more spacific answers

"unless you have a lot of bored weekends you are trying to fill" hmmm, nope, wife, two children, horse (belongs to my daughter, but i get all the sh!t jobs) budgie, twelve hour shifts during the week, this all adds up to a busy life (THINKS- if i'm so busy why am i so fat?)... i think i'll leave it.......... unless i can get the flander for a grand, but i don't think the owner will go for that.

is the ird the same on the four pots and the six's? i've done a little more digging and read that if the teeth break off the crown wheel and pinion in the ird that can cause the lot to lock, and the cause of the ird breaking could be due to a seized viscous coupling, so this is what i recon has happened to the freelander i'm interested in. trouble is, ird+viscous coupling sounds bloody expensive. jules is your friends freelander realy worth so little that he/she can't be bothered to replace the engine? or is it no worth saving due to other things being wrong? i'm asking because the £2000 bargain price i can get this broken flander for is starting to sound rather inflated :-O

jules looking at your signature pic i'd say that one definitely has a hard time :-)

blippie you are right ofcourse, why spend £4000 on buying and fixing if you can get one for the same money and not have to roll around on the floor in the wet and cold. it's still damn tempting to av a look though, just to find out if it's worth doing, but if the rest of the car is a dog then it isn't worth the time or money. as for looking for a new car, i wasn't, it was just an alternative to going thirds on a ropey old horse box and having to keep that on the road. at least with buying a freelander you get to use it for other things, i can't see a four ton truck doing what you do with your freelander :-) that off roading looks fun

well Blippie, that looks like fun.... do you use yours as an everyday runaround too or is it a weekend toy. it'd be interesting to know if you can punish a car like that and still have it be reliable on a day to day basis, use it the way it was designed for not just for towing a horse trailer :-).... there are three LR's a work that i know of that do the weekend off road thing, a 110 and two disco's but i've not had a chance to speak to them in detail.

"But unless it's seriously cheap" well, i've looked on tinternet and £2000 seems ok for a diesel three door on a v reg with 100k on the clock and i'd try and find second hand parts to fix it to cut the cost. at worst i could break it for parts on eBay :-) but would lose a bit of money probably

take a look at this site http://www.geocities.com/vegoilcar/ i'm not sure if it's as straight forward as people think, you have to consider a few factors like cold starting and diesel pump lubrication as the fuel (diesel) lubricates the pump as it passes through. a friend of mine smoked the pump on his cherokee due to using too much cero in a diesel mix

yup you are right, but i guess most hippos are used for the school run so low pro's are fine :-)

thanks for the welcome bogmonster :-) it's a total drive lockup and unable to drive not just tyre scrubbing. if i like it when i see it do you think disconecting the prop to the rear will make it towable? i'm thinking if the problem is the rear diff i can put the rear on a dolly then tow it or if its the IRD i can lift the front and tow the rear once the prop is off

nice

how do you add a picture to your posts?, i've got a pic of a modded hippo on 17's and privacy glass

hi peeps, i've just registered so i'm a newbie to this forum and new to four wheel drive too.. i've the chance to buy what sounds like a cheap Freelander diesel (v reg possibly 99), it's cheap due to the drive train problem that it has. it's done 101,000 miles and is suffering from drive train lockup so can't be moved as is. i've not yet seen the car coz i wanted to know roughly what could be wrong with it, i didn't wan't to waste the owners and my time if it turns out the damn thing is terminaly ill. this is probably a silly question but, is a freelander 4x4 or just rear wheel drive (a work mate told me it's just rear???), does it have a transfer box? and finaly do the rear diff's give problems as these (transfer box + diff) are the areas i'm suspecting are at fault. any advice would be appreciated, thanks in advance, Paul