SPOTTER wrote:

sufun,

I had to have the chassis of the middle middle seat replaced to get rid of a rattle, it wasn't seating down properly. Took nearly 9 months to find it was that rattling

I know that if I give the near side middle row seat a whack ... it rattles ... I will ask the garage to check the chassis. Thanks for that!!

DG ... I knew the lubricate question will definitely raise some eye brows ....

caverD3 wrote:

Dealer gave me TSB; see:

http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/post342131.html#342131

Gareth wrote:

Well done How about a quick write up for the benefit of others?

Yes please

Gareth wrote:

Well done How about a quick write up for the benefit of others?

To be honest it was really rather straight forward. I had to remove the rear road wheels to get access, but from there the ARB and it's bushes are clearly visible. They are 'D' shaped bushes, and they are secured over the bar to the chassis by 'U' shaped clamps and two bolts, in the usual way, as with many others I have done before. The only difference with these, was that the ARB runs over the chassis rather than under the chassis in the usual way, making the access space (between the chassis and the floorpan) to get the bolts out was very tight, and although I started with a 3/8 drive socket (anything else too big) to get them loose, they had to be finished with a spanner. Because of the tight space, the spanner could only move a couple of degrees, so these bolts were a bit laborious. Even my ratchet spanners didn't have enough movement to work properly. WD40 was absolutely essential. It's one of those jobs where it helps if you're a gynaecologist!

Once these two bolts are removed, with a little encouragement the clamps can be removed, and then the bushes can be slid towards you to clear the chassis, and removed. (They are split in the usual way to enable fitment) The ARB may need a little jacking or manipulating to take the pressure off the bush which is trapped between the chassis and the bar.

Fitting the new ones was just a matter of the above, but in reverse. The hardest part was getting the bar in the right place so that the holes in the clamp lined up with the holes in the chassis. Because you can't see down the holes as the access is so tight, I used my WD40 straw to poke down the holes and line them up! Still a bit tricky though. Also, there is a small fixed collar on the ARB on the inside of the bush, the bush sits up against this not over it. These collars keep the ARB in place between the two bushes.

I don't want to make it sound easy, as it was a bit of a pain in places, but even still was done within an hour, and for very little cost. I had asked my local garage to do it for me, as I was worried about the access issues, they only wanted £20 for labour, but I really wanted to give it a go myself, and once I picked up the parts, I looked at them and thought how hard can it be? I always do my own fixing if I am able, and I never pay anyone to do anything I can do myself, unless I really don't have time (I'm not stupid enough to take on the stuff I know I cannot do!) and I'm glad I did, because it was very satisfying to have rid the world of that annoying knocking!

I didn't take any pics, sorry. But there is a pic of the location of the bushes in an earlier post, posted by Gareth, and that very clearly shows the bush, the ARB and the clamp and bolts.

Hope this helps someone!

Gareth wrote:

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