How to replace Halfshafts on a SUV - Land Rover Discovery 3 / 4 

I wish my wife was this enthusiastic about me working on the Rover. Thanks for the help with replacing my axle seal. Always appreciate the videos to help keep my old LR3 alive.

LR Time is my Sunday church. Amen to Christian, cogfather to us all 👍🏻

Great job guys. Loved Robin’s work. So talented. 🔥⚒️

I just love watching you two. Your relationship seems a bit like mine with my wife. She is small and smart, I try to fix stuff while she constantly questions my methods and makes humorous/sarcastic comments, but we still have fun after 37 years together. I'm wondering where it all went wrong, lol... 😊

I replaced my front diff by myself ...it was very very heavy .. shafts came out quite easy with lots of room ..you did so well ..im loving this 2 post lift !!

I'm very happy to see you call them half shafts. I am so tired of others referring to them as axles, which they are not

The mechanical solutions are interesting but also it is so nice to watch them interacting as a couple obviously deeply in love.

Sorry I know I've already left a comment, but wanted to come back and say "y'all do good work" in response to the tail end of the video! And yes, us American mechanics DO love our old air conditioned Buicks and Pontiacs (3800 series 2!!) and Ford Rangers (4cyl version ONLY) and 90's Hondas (2.2L any flavor/version of it!) - all of these go 300,000 miles (that's a lot more in Euro-lometers). But preferably the Buick. It's like driving your old broken in recliner to work 😁

Disco 2 rock crawler has a solid front axle. No half shafts like on the later mall crawlers. Much more reliable. I am in awe of your wrenching skills. I enjoy watching both of you work as a team. I keep watching to see if something might apply to my Disco 2 but so far, only mall crawler fixes. Good to see your son is carrying on the craft tradition. Beautiful work on that crowbar.

I really enjoy your videos - After an absence of too many years away from Land Rovers, I bought a D4 and love it. Your videos have given me the confidence again to pull it apart and fix problems or create new equipment. Thank you guys!

I am an Audi owner (old Audis) and do all the maintenance my self. I get "deja vu" watching all your videos (except for the engine rebuild video -> "crossing my fingers").

This video's timing is SO great - just when I keep procrastinating this job myself!

Sunday wouldnt be Sunday without LR Time, another great video guys. I had to take my driveshafts out recently as they had developed a leak at the oil seals. I later did some reading up and found that there is a vent pipe coming up from the diff that has a tenancy to block at the tiny filter at the end and pressurise the diff over time. I have now fitted the upgraded vent filter and all seems good.

I admire your persistence in the ongoing maintenance of your Discovery. They're quite an amazing machine, but the never ending maintenance stops me from acquiring one. The Disco 1s i had were fun, with a serious drinking issue, such is the petrol V8. Cheers.

Uses a vice grip to hold the inner ball joint of tie rod to stop it spinning, so you can remove the nut

A superb job done by 2, no 3(!) superb people! Very well done and a pleasure as always to see how you do it. Keep them coming.

Good morning, great video and commentary, definitely time to upgrade to cordless impact drivers , can highly recommend Milwaukee 3/8 and 1/2 inch and with in car charge bank they are ideal to take with you on your trips 👍🏻👍🏻

Excellent job - as usual. I drank two coffees watching that video.

I predict that you will have 50k subscribers by Christmas and 150 by the end of 2023. I always eagerly await you videos every Sunday, as I’m sure a lot of other people around the world do. Keep up the great work Christian and Vera!

"It smells strange" LOL!

Great work and good to see your son doing some great metal work. Your son is so talented and cannot wait for the next video.

You have subjected me to Coffee at 1:17. I'm going outside to look at my "What Cruiser" . There was nothing to do.. But watch you work on the Discovery. Great video. Keep up the great work.

Wow! That looked like an horrendously difficult job (even after you had edited it down to 20 something minutes). Huge Kudos to all, including your very talented son. Looking forward to next week!

@14:52 ... we heard that Vera.. we ALL heard that 😅

That is the most swearing I have ever heard from Vera! Glad the hoist is paying off and I am envious of that new pry bar your son made for you.

Good morning from New Mexico USA. It comforting that you have an assistant to help you with calling out the specs. I just got done swapping out an Engine for a 2010 ford Taurus. Took my time. 3 days total. No torque specs. I just turned 68 last month. I really enjoy working on my own cars and trucks. It's a never ending tasks for maintenance. Last month. I removed the front differential on my 03 Chevrolet truck 4x4. Seals had been leaking and got lots of oil all over. Bought all my little axle bearings. Seals and oil. Got it rebuilt and more seals also..anyhow. 👍

Evening guys. Had to watch this in a few goes as I’ve been busy working 😀 Sunday will never be the same if you both stop posting LR time videos 🤩 RIP Queen Elizabeth. Very sad day tomorrow in the UK 🇬🇧 and hopefully the world 🌍

Another great video. The highlight of my week. Thank you

Really enjoyed watching you both work on your Discovery it is one reason I got mine as you show pretty much every repair there is to do and I`m pretty confident with these type of jobs I won`t go into the engine side of it yet though so thank you for all your hard work. Vera in our area of the UK we say "easy peasy lemon squeezy " dont ask me why though😊😊 see you both next Sunday

Such a great video. I needed this one. I want to change my cv joints too. Thank you!!!

I’m off out to fix my rusty leaking rear brake lines now, on a type one drive and axel stands in the pissing rain ☔️ but love my LR TIME ! Thank you for all you both do ❤

That video is going to help a lot of people for sure. I can’t believe though that Vera curses 🤣 Regarding the noisy air impact. I’ve switch all my impacts over to Milwaukee battery as they have these cool right angle impacts now that get into tighter spaces, you should have a look at them. Best money I ever spent and definitely quieter than air.

You are so good at maintaining Vera's discovery

Great work and good to see your son doing some great metal work.

Great to have your own in-house blacksmith !!!

Excellent video Christian and Vera, i had been looking forward to this one, as i have to do this exact repair to my Discovery 3 for my MOT ( TUV ) ....take care and see you next Sunday

Fantastic as always guys loved the content.

Thanks for the video very helpful.

Wow, brilliant video. My next job. Probably take the entire weekend, but I learnt lots here! Loved this video.

Ive missed a bunch of your episodes! Unfortunately I have had things like trying to fix my own darn RR P38. I need a friend like you near me. But I missed your videos. The banter between you two is priceless! Every time Vera say oh my god....just makes me laugh! You need to make a sticker that just says." "Oh my god" LR Time " in fact it would be a great drinking game. Shot whenever she says it!!! Love you two! Happy to see how many subscribers you have now!

Again a great job , love the t shirt 😉 I did mine awhile back no hoist and yes 12lb hammer and persuader helped cheers

Another great video. Vera please buy Christian a flood light for Christmas so we can see him hit his knuckles. Thank you for making me smile.

A sailors car.... maintenance and repairs on and on, but we love it !!!!

You guys are hilarious. You make a great team.

Christian and Vera fantastic ❤️🇬🇧

i love the humour and honesty of it all,, you make it look so much fun which is better than the boring repair work GUS GUT

Love your videos! With your exposure issues it's probably because the camera is compensating exposure for the clouds being so bright. You could set the iris (f-stop) to manual and scroll until you get the desired brightness inside the wheel arch. Alternatively try not get the clouds in and it's should solve your issue. Keep up the amazing content! Big Land Rover love from South Africa.

Today I removed the half shaft from diff by using an 8mm rope (double braid sailing type) and a maul. The groove at the diff side of the inner cv housing is perfect for an 8mm rope. I used a taut line hitch and then snugged it up really tight. Then I tied a bowline about 800mm or so along the standing end of the rope then passed the head of my maul through it. Bowline just needs to be out far enough to give you the room to swing the maul about 1/3rd of a distance you would swing if you were splitting a log. Once the head of maul reaches the point where the rope becomes taut, the momentum is transferred to the cv housing and it pops out nicely. This works for me because I am on the ground.

"Mechanics always drive the most reliable cars " :)) we do but when your wife will only drive land rovers and goes to the dealer & buys a new one every 3 years🤦‍♂.... Somehow my reliable cars went to my kids and i'm driving the 2015 lr4 I was so happy to see you had installed the lift & now wouldn't have to work on your knees But your still on your knees. You have a high tolerance for pain Christian, I wish I could still tolerate those positions, nice work. Thanks for sharing

Another great video,thank you 👍👍👍👍

I'm buying an LR3 next week, I'm so excited. Just haggling on the price😏

Just changed my front nearside driveshaft. Your video came just at the right time and was very useful and very entertaining. Many, many thanks. All the very best from the UK.

I’m glad it just wasn’t me who struggled to get shaft out as well

Fantastic content as usual. Disco maintenance with a smile, excellent. You inspired me to do my first repair on my D4 the other day (sun roof drain hose fracture ). All went well, rear disks next, wish me luck !!

F bomb nice shafts and shaft size love it❤️

Great video as usual!!

OMG! I can't believe Vera let loose an F-💣!!!! 🤣🤣 Nice job with those half-shafts. With all the joking aside, I bet there was some truth when Christian said he's got enough stress already. I always get a little stressed when I'm working on anything beyond an oil change.

well done all ways like your vid's keep em coming

Darn Christian …it just clicked at 16.45 just what was on my mind since I have been watching your videos .. “Walter White’s car … you are double of Bryan Cranston and more so of Walter ! Keep it up !

I'm breaking out in a cold sweat just now. I have to replace the NSf drive shaft seal in the diff. Whilst its on the floor.. 😱 Now im not looking forward to getting the driveshaft out!! But great video guys. As always it shows how it really is. Screw ups included. OMG.

i really love that lift just wish i had space for one and its great to know you are keeping the landrover on the road but when you screw up like that just jack the joint back up and then take the nut off thanks for the video

I recently purchased a 2011 Range Rover that also needed new front axle half shafts. I installed the same brand of axles you installed. Shortly after the installation both side would work loose out of the differential. I pulled the the axles and found that the inner retainer snap rings were not as strong as the original LR retainer snap rings. I replaced the Chinese snap rings with new LR retainer snap rings and now the axles stay in place in the differential now.

I love that T-shirt..😊

Great video as always but picture was often so dark I could not see much!

Vera - congratulations 🎉 you have managed to learn the most useful Land Rover swear words. Christian as the new Heisenberg 😁

Nice work folks, as I commented last week, that B class Mercedes is the German equivalent of the Toyota Corolla a very reliable car indeed.

Vera, did you drop the F bomb??? I laughed like a drain! Love this content, thank you

Thanks guys. I love the content. I've found the smaller diameter drive shaft joints don't last... in my 1995 Jetta anyway. Cost cutting gone mad. There are lots of rubbish drive shafts around.

if you ever have a loose (spinning) ball joint / tie rod etc again, instead of heat, you can put a jack under it and apply pressure to it and that will allow you to loosen it again with an impact etc.

The joys of driveshafts 😀 The snows had barely melted when the old Freelander front shaft fell apart and I had to change it in the open on our dirt track ... getting that C Clip to disengage and then new one clicked back in at zero degC 🤫

Thank you.

It was great. As always enjoyed watching it and hope I don't have to do it on mine anytime soon. 🤣

A good job done by an expert 😂😂😂👍👍👍

That would have been at least a weekend for us mere mortals.... OMG! I dread to think what LRG would charge. Good job though and piece of mind for at least another 25k miles. The smaller CV joint is because manufacturing tolerances have improved no end over the last few years. Lets hope so at any rate! Great video and we like the odd schoolboy mistake - we've all been there!

Hi Vera and Christian, After 11 years in the United States, I have move home to England and had to sell my Freelander 2. Just before I sold it, my CV shaft failed and was clicking like yours! Mine was making a metallic ticking when turning the car slowly. I almost bought a Discovery 4 when I got home, but on the nicest one I found, with 60k miles on it, I did some checks and found that the air suspension was leaking. It was a good car, but according the service records a lot of money was spent misdiagnosing the problem and after a new compressor and new front shocks, it was still taking a long time to raise at the front and I decided I would play it safe and buy something else. I used your discussions for figuring out slow air suspension, and how the system works, to understand the issue. This is 100% a problem with repair shops and not the car. I eventually settled on a Discovery Sport, because it makes more sense for me and has coil springs. It has only 45k miles and has every option I could ask for. I am not confident enough to maintain the air suspension myself and it would be my only car, so because I cannot trust the repair shops I can't own a full size Discovery. It would have had a warranty, but with limits I don't think would cover all the work. I am very excited to pick up my new Discovery Sport. I think you would like it, even if it is more of a mall crawler, but they are also very capable, like my Freelander was. I plan to take similar trips that you two have taken around Europe, so if I am in Germany and if you want to have a beer, it would be nice to meet you both and I will reach out. Thank you again for a great video. One day I hope to buy a Defender, so maybe I can use some of the lessons here on that car one day. Have a nice weekend.

Robin is a very skilled young man! Great job and very timely for me. I would keep the OEM CV joins and rebuild them. The OEM is usually stronger than aftermarket. Clearly they seem more robust that the replacement ones you have installed. Vera, there is always a little metal "fluff" on the drain plugs of diff's and automatic gear box's. It isn't a big deal. If you have chunks of metal, that is bad. I still have the OEM CV joints in my LR3, it has done 239,000km now. My son (the apprentice mechanic ) is replacing the CV boots on the passenger side for me, the inner is torn, so I said to replace both boots. That is the left side here in Australia. While he is doing it the tie rod boot on the same side is being replaced, it is also torn.

Another great video from you both. Fabian, poor bloke, could have bought a new car for all the parts he's had replaced 🙈. Anyway, that two poster has definitely come in handy for this job, they do make life a tad easier! Good job by Robin on the pry bar btw👌. Look forward to next week, take care.

Vera's comments are so nice , and she does make a good quality manager too , I mean not ISO 9XXX ,but a real quality manager ...she checks procedures and check regularly the work of the low wage slave , but Christian should have a correct helmet and shoes for protection and mask for bad vapors from cleaning stuff ,also is not seen when the slave is correctly humidified with beer or fresh water , this is a bad point for the quality manager...

Another great job C & V replacing your CV

I just finished replacing the front diff bearings and the transfer box bearings. I called omg a lot. All this just done on the floor. Let me put it this way: once and never again. What a job to get the transfer box out. Everything now sounds great and that for about € 300,-

Keller vs Dungeon... haha :-) I remember learning there is a difference between the front half shafts for manual vs automatic D3. After the parts were delivered... And it took me about the same time to do this same job

Have to say that lr time is my favourite RU-vid channel & i know only too well what's involved in the ownership of a landrover. Ive owned a classic range rover & a discovery 1 & 2, but its time to step away from the brand, but not from your channel. But don't worry Christian im not buying a Toyota! But an audi a6 3.0 bitdi avant will be our next car. Keep up the great video content, as I'll be watching every sunday. Best wishes to you & vera for the future.

You need to upgrade to battery powered impact guns. Quieter. Among other advantages

Your guys are Adorable! Great 👍 job & training videos!. I follow you all times.. From USA Sac. Thank you,

i have a lot of persuader tools they help me out every time on cars and vans, also good for the neighbours 🤣👍

Hallo ihr zwei, super video

I just changed my LH shaft I had an idea how but when I couldn't get the shaft out I came here to see what I was doing wrong I just needed more musle 10/12/2022 Michael

Hello Christian and Vera! Very nice video today! I did this job 2 years ago only at the driver Side. The outer rubber boot was cracked. My first idea was only to change the rubber boots on the genuine LR driveshaft. But while searching for the parts online I found these incredible cheap Driveshafts from GSP. I payed about 85€ for the left one and about 100€ for the longer one. I have driven 20.000km with the new GSP shaft on the driver side. Till today no problems with this cheap shaft. (No Offroad usage). Please inform us all about your experience with the cheap GSP shafts. This company is new for me. Gruß, Thomas

Thanks

The two of you have a unique chemistry that make these videos enjoyable to watch. Your explanations and attention to detail make me want to work on my own car! Alas, though I am a mere Toyota owner, so I'll probably never get the opportunity 🙂. I have a question on the wheel spacers, are the Land Rovers produced with them from the factory or are they an aftermarket addition? Keep up the great work guys!

You might want to point out if you are only doing the bearing on the long shaft side you have to release the torsion bar on both sides otherwise you cannot slide the shaft out.

Hi Christiian, Im suprised you are not using a battery impact gun it save running a compressor, also when i need a little heat instead of using a hot blow torch, as you showing in the video I bought a cheap induction coil heater, it works well and does not set fire to the rubber dust boots, anyway i realy enjoy the videos,

Really nice setup. I tried to remove my axle nut on my Saab 93 and I broke the extension bar even after I used heat in the nut. Not good. I’ll have to take it into a shop.

Sooooo entertaining. I think it would be extremely entertaining if you compiled an 'out-takes' video. Really looking forward to the 'lift-the-lid' project.

I see how are you checked for play in the inner CV joint. How do you know it’s not the output shaft bearing of the differential? Just watch for weather the CV ball is loose versus the deaf bearing? Thank you, love the videos.

*our daily parts delivery* 😂

Another great video both of you.. You worry about the sound of the impact, when you have a huge power hammer set up in the foundry? In the nicest possible way, I'm glad you're not my neighbours! ;-) Chris

Not sure if first time installing a CV axle but 5 hours is very long time usually 1 hour or less a side they usually slide out and back in a simple job , but that just me I find easy to intall

Another excellent video, well done both of you. When you fitted the oil seals do they go in and stop against a flange? On my what-cruiser I have to measure the distance from the edge of the axle casing to the seal or the new one could go in too far. I'm surprised you had so much trouble removing the old shaft and those of us working on the ground wouldn't have room for a 100 year old bar to fit in there so a big Toyota hammer combined with a small Land Rover bar does the trick.

so much easier on your 2 poster great job. Vera you need an OMG or editing at 14:52😯🤣