Ladam... did you check the back axle also? The snaping sound you descrived, while driving ion 4x4 in dry pavement is typical of an axle braking in that model. The one tire turning without the other moving does not make much sense either. If you turn one wheel, either the other turns in the opossite direction or the shaft to the transfer case turns. If you lock the transfer in 4x4, and you leave the rear tires on the ground but lift the front, then the one tire must turn when the other turns or there is a broken shaft. The rear axles are more prone to break than the front.
I hope you are right and just needs oil, but I am skeptical.

 

Sorry I forgot to do that

btw What i noticed that might be wrong too is one of the steering arms (the one that goes from the relay to the passenger side) has the balljoint touching the spring when i steer to the right also in the centre area it has some welding on it but it is not holding the bar together

btw mine is right hand drive and does NOT have power steering and it s a real pain to park.....

if the steering box, relay and both diffs and transfer/gear box are out of oil could it explain the trouble it s giving??? anyway tomorow i ll go buy oil lots of oil so i top up as it seems to have not had oil for ages....

BTW i removed a shim from the end to reduce play (according to the manual) anyway on the passeger side where the shims are at the bottom when i removed the iron peice which holds the shims water came out haw bad is that?? last week was a lot of rain and i went through about 2 or 3 feet of water if it matters???

 

I ll try that later today when i check the rest for oil and maybe clean and paint some parts of the chassis....

 

this morning i went to my local land rover agent to buy the neccesery oils and told him about the problem... after a brief few solutions from him and a few further checks i oiled everything and took it for a spin i found out that the problem was the 4x4 getting stuck each time and the steering box needs a new worm and bearings.

The steering and the 4x4 together where giving me those problems.... the bangs where the transfer box but luckily nothing was broken

for now i m going to unstick the 4x4 by after switching to 2wd reverse than stop and move forward using 2nd gear it worked today and for the steering i tightened up the adjust to almost max and will order a rebuild kit this week

 

I am glad there was nothing broken, and thanks for coming back to report.

 

Unless you have diff locks does always the same wheel drive i mean mine drives only on 1 of the rear wheels and it s always the left one (the one with the long shaft) the other one never drives and even when on 4x4 it only drives on 2 wheels one front and one rear. i noted this couse today i got stuck and even when stuck badly it kept trying to use the same 2 wheels. somethimes both front wheels drive (so it becomes a 3wheel drive) but on the rear it dosen t

any thoughts??

 

see https://landroverforums.com/forum/di...l-works-40804/ for a very good short video on the subject.

Here's and exploded diagram of the rear diff Land Rover Series II, IIA, III, Drivetrain Parts Available from RoversNorth.com

 

It is behaving as it should, nothing wrong with it. By the way, if you have always seen the same wheel spin on the rear, it is more than likely pure coincidence. With the car on 2WD, lift the other tire with a jack, place jack stands to secure, block the other wheels, place the car in gear, try to turn the wheel by hand, if it spins freely, then there is something wrong and someone welded the differential to run with one axle only. VERY VERY unlikely, but not unheard of in some places. Do not start the engine, place it in gear and let out the clutch just to see that tire spinning. I repeat, do not do that, it is dangerous. Only a nutcase like me will do that.

 

when it was jacked and i turn one of the wheels the other turned in th opposite direction no matter which one i turned but what seemed strange to me is that when i previously got stuck with my dad s 2wd tata pickup after some time spinning the wheel on one side and digging a whole it spun the other wheel the land rover didn t do that.

I m trying to avoid the 4x4 as much as possible even though it dosen t always get stuck

 

If the wheel spinning at some point encounters more resistance to spin than the other one, then that wheel will stop spinning and the other one will start spinning. That could happen because the wheel digs until it finds some resistance (traction) or because the resistance is “smartly” applied either by a computer like in modern cars that apply the brake to the spinning wheel or some experienced drivers that know that in a 4WD sometimes applying the brakes gets you moving. The other option is to have a blocking differential. There are many kinds of locks. A friction type differential locker will produce the effect that you describe, the wheel start spinning until the friction discs lock and engage the other wheel. A Detroit type locking differential will spin both tires from the very beginning since the normal position is engaged and only unlocks when the car is turning (very clever). In between those two types of lockers there is whole range of them.