lost 4 wheel drive

Nah, leaving them locked won't have caused it. Like I say, I think they just need a bit of tlc.

Just don't over grease them. They just need a little bit to stop binding. It's probably old grease gone hard in the cold stopping them sliding inside.

Kirkynut

if the hubs are at fault and they may be, a strip and clean/relube should sort it. i bought a set that needed rebuilding and its a quickish job . check as mentioned in other posts. once you have cured the faulty hub , i'd also redo the working one.

Just watched a video of a rebiuld looks easy ill be doing them over the weekend can I just undo the hubs anf pull them off with every thing else still there wheels etc

to be honest i can't remember whether the wheel has to come off or not. but i do remember you can strip and rebuild them on the dining room table
i bought the grease and sealant from the bigjimny shop. martin will tell you what you need.
rob

no need to remove anything else to take the hubs off so very easy 5min job

cool ill be doing them in a bit just in the middle of making the mould for the fast back hard top right now and its going quite well

idiotmobil wrote: cool ill be doing them in a bit just in the middle of making the mould for the fast back hard top right now and its going quite well

I don't even have a soft top but I'm excited to see these fiberglass fast backs. A chap that goes down my old club made one out of sheet aluminium for his SJ and is really cool. He is a bodywork guru for a local tvr specialist.

You don't have to take the wheel off but it might make life easier. The only thing is with the hub being able to spin is trying to get the bolts undone when the hub wants to go round unless you can get someone to press the brakes!

Kirkynut

found out it wasn't the hubs at least one cv joint gone only had time to quickly take passenger side apart and cv was in bits other side should be quicker as ive just done that sides kingpins, im surprised I had no warning no noises no funny steering

oops that's a little broken

ya every thing at once I was hoping to message you today about them arches is it ok to stick them on hold till I get this sorted im hoping its just this side but it feels like some things gone on the other to, and I think its been a bloody unlucky few weeks for me so proberly be needing two now just to find some