Being that there are no replaceable bearings on the Disco II, I'm figuring that the hub is going to need to be replaced...unless there's a way of greasing it up or spraying some $20 Land Rover oil into it or something.

Opinions? Sources for cheap hubs?

 

unit bearing, no way to grease. The whole hub assembly has to be replaced ($400). If it's squealing I wouldn't dive it until repaired.

 

You do need to stop driving it or you will do additional damage and the parts will will just keep getting bigger.
Are you going for a new or used hub?

 

Roverland Parts has good used hubs kind of pricey though. Rovers North has proline hubs on sale for $300 quite often.

 

sonofabitch.

what next?

Just dropped $300 on a new coil job on this god forsaken vehicle...seriously? I have to say that English Engineering just downright sucks ***.

Thanks for the heads up though guys...nothing against you.

 

unstable, I know how ya feel. I thought I needed a new one a few months back, I was cussing LR. It's not just LR, I think any vehicle made in the past 10 years uses unit bearings. They just go out more often on off-road vehicles because of sand and mud.

 

I'm just a little frustrated is all...I mean it's a cool rig and my wife says it's her "DREAM CAR"...my dream car is a 1957 Chevy Pickup truck with a 454 CID in it...which I own but it's in about 1000 pieces...or maybe a Dodge Viper would be cool.

I put in the extra effort because it is my wife's rig and it makes her happy having her "dream car"...know what I mean? But really it pisses me off the way things have been going with this truck. We don't take it off road so I wouldn't expect the hubs to go at 73,000 miles. I just spent $250 for a new coil and $40 for the intake gasket and now I had to drop another $300 for the hub this morning. Just a few months ago I had to do the timing chain cover, water pump and timing chain...Then a few months before that I somehow sprang a leak in two tires on the sidewall...not off roading and that cost me another $300 or so...it just stinks...it really stinks. I'm not happy about having to rip the intake manifold off to replace the coil. I'm pissed off at magnecor because I highly suspect that half of the wires I bought from them were missing the snap clips that hold the wire to the coil terminal...I'm going to call them this morning in fact.

 

Unstable, you got every reason to be upset. It sounds like you got a lemon.
70+K for a hub bearing without off-roading is a premature failure. My advise is to really make sure that the hub bearing is what is causing the noise, and not brakes or something else.

 

I'm 99% sure it's the hub. It's not constant and it's not a typical brake noise. Initially I thought it was a wheel-bearing, which it is technically...so I did the old "rock the steering wheel back and forth" trick to see if I could definitely identify it...and it's driver's side front. It's not a constant squeel but when it kicks in, all of the dogs in the neighborhood start following the truck around.

Brakes are all new. I ordered the hub because I've got a road trip on Thursday that requires the rover. If I start tearing into it and find that it's not the hub, I'll simply return it for a refund. If it is the hub, I'll have it on hand and I can slap the new one in.

Whoever recommended Rover's North, thanks...saved me $100 going with the proline hub.

 

unstable, look on the bright side..at least your wife's dream car isn't a 2010 range rover and the $800/mo. payments that come with it.

A hub going out at 73K miles does sound very odd to me if it's never been off-road. Are you the original owner and know for certain it's never been off-road? I have a friend that bought a new Jeep rubicon. He takes it off-road a lot and sometimes in mud, both his unit bearings went out under 30k miles.