Defender Td5 vibration

Hey Brid, No idea on this one but I gotta tell you I'm still trying to clean up all the yellow bleep I spilled from a bottle of FTC Decarboniser.! LOL . Wow that is seriously toxic stuff. I had to mix up a batch of CT18 and Some of the famous Pinkie Cleaning Solution to get it off my boat. I have since learned to make a Cost Effective Funnel to do this job for me. The product is great, thks..!

Brid - why do you think it's the centrifugal filter? Check the colour of your oil. Mine is still not black at the next service, as the filter does an incredible job of removing soot. If your oil is relatively good - the filter is working.

They are pretty well balanced as far as I know, and it is ESSENTIAL that you be able to hear it spin down for 10 seconds or so after a run - as this is entirely proper and normal. The fact that you can hear it spinning means that it isn't binding, and being on sintered bronze bushes they will bind easily if the unit is out of balance (i.e. captured soot and sediment not spinning out to the edges evenly).

Do yourself a favour and replace it anyway. They are $22-ish from Land Rover, and DON'T use an aftermarket one. The last after market one I put in bound because the bearings were not drilled out to the right clearance. This led to my question to Land Rover service guys.. "should I be able to hear it spin?" - to which the answer was a very loud YES.

I wouldn't run the engine for very long without the filter in place.

Make no mistake, while you could call the overall body design of a Defender "rudimentary and utilitarian" the Td5 engine is far from that. It should be reasonablt smooth right to redline (3900 or so). Are you sure it isn't the gearbox, transfer case or something else in the driveline? Is the harshness speed or rev related?

Cheers
Chris

I've just changed mine Brid and can just hear it as it runs down. No vibration at all. As it's only a quick cheap job, change it and see if it was the problem.
I believe LR don't change it until 60,000klms but most drivers I know do it at 20,000 and the oil and filter at 10,000klms.

I've heard of the probs. with after market spinnersand noted that mine was made by Mann and had LR on it so I suppose it is a genuine article but no doubt others will know for sure.
Try the technical forum on www.aulro.com for answers to all things LR.
Alan.

G'day Brid

Finally got around to checking mine. Can certainly hear it run down and put hand on gearstick. No vibration as such but you can feel the rundown vaguely through the lever.

Cheers