Engine Stabiliser

[Wasphouse]

Does anyone have an experience of the stabiliser on the MK2? I get a definites bump or clunk when pulling away or taking the gas off when decellerating - Yet once I take off the engine under shield the bar seems fine.I can't seem to move the engine by rocking it by hand so am not sure what else it could be.

 

On the Mk2 the stabiliser is different to the MK1 - so is it worth looking at renewing the bushes or is it a complete replacement like the Mk1?

 

it's a 2002 Mk2 Dlesel with around 100K miles on the clock.

[JohnR]

Does anyone have an experience of the stabiliser on the MK2? I get a definites bump or clunk when pulling away or taking the gas off when decellerating - Yet once I take off the engine under shield the bar seems fine.I can't seem to move the engine by rocking it by hand so am not sure what else it could be.

 

On the Mk2 the stabiliser is different to the MK1 - so is it worth looking at renewing the bushes or is it a complete replacement like the Mk1?

 

it's a 2002 Mk2 Dlesel with around 100K miles on the clock.

 

Its very likely to be the drop links. Its supposed to be an easy swap as they are not under tension. Try getting someone to rock the Gal violently left to right while you are holding the link. See if you can feel anything. You can get them from quite a few people on ebay for about 20 quid.

 

John

[Wasphouse]

Does anyone have an experience of the stabiliser on the MK2? I get a definites bump or clunk when pulling away or taking the gas off when decellerating - Yet once I take off the engine under shield the bar seems fine.I can't seem to move the engine by rocking it by hand so am not sure what else it could be.

 

On the Mk2 the stabiliser is different to the MK1 - so is it worth looking at renewing the bushes or is it a complete replacement like the Mk1?

 

it's a 2002 Mk2 Dlesel with around 100K miles on the clock.

 

Its very likely to be the drop links. Its supposed to be an easy swap as they are not under tension. Try getting someone to rock the Gal violently left to right while you are holding the link. See if you can feel anything. You can get them from quite a few people on ebay for about 20 quid.

 

John

 

 

 

Thanks John - No it's not the drop links I've done them twice before and it's completely different - It feels like either engine mountings or the stabiliser. I'll have another look but probabvly just replace the bloody thing anyway - after all 100K miles is not to be sneezed at!

[JohnR]

Does anyone have an experience of the stabiliser on the MK2? I get a definites bump or clunk when pulling away or taking the gas off when decellerating - Yet once I take off the engine under shield the bar seems fine.I can't seem to move the engine by rocking it by hand so am not sure what else it could be.

 

On the Mk2 the stabiliser is different to the MK1 - so is it worth looking at renewing the bushes or is it a complete replacement like the Mk1?

 

it's a 2002 Mk2 Dlesel with around 100K miles on the clock.

 

Its very likely to be the drop links. Its supposed to be an easy swap as they are not under tension. Try getting someone to rock the Gal violently left to right while you are holding the link. See if you can feel anything. You can get them from quite a few people on ebay for about 20 quid.

 

John

 

 

 

Thanks John - No it's not the drop links I've done them twice before and it's completely different - It feels like either engine mountings or the stabiliser. I'll have another look but probabvly just replace the bloody thing anyway - after all 100K miles is not to be sneezed at!

 

 

Mines also a 2002 TDi and has 95k on it and seems ok at the moment. Let me know if swapping it fixes your problem! It would be one on my list to look out for!!

[El Dingo]

It doesn't have to be the roll restrictor. It could be another engine mount.

 

With the bonnet open, and an assistant standing at the SIDE of the car, try putting in gear and try to pull away gently against the handbrake. Have the assistant watch to see if the engine moves!

[JohnR]

It does have to be the roll restrictor. It could be another engine mount.

 

With the bonnet open, and an assistant standing at the SIDE of the car, try putting in gear and try to pull away gently against the handbrake. Have the assistant watch to see if the engine moves!

 

I had one on a Pug where an engine mount had sheared. The engine was just sitting on it under gravity. It gave a sensation of slack in the driveline, and a thump when part of the engine hit the bulkhead!

[El Dingo]

It does have to be the roll restrictor. It could be another engine mount.

 

With the bonnet open, and an assistant standing at the SIDE of the car, try putting in gear and try to pull away gently against the handbrake. Have the assistant watch to see if the engine moves!

 

I had one on a Pug where an engine mount had sheared. The engine was just sitting on it under gravity. It gave a sensation of slack in the driveline, and a thump when part of the engine hit the bulkhead!

 

Exactly!

 

(BTW, I edited my post - 'does' to 'doesn't' :( Hope it makes more sense now...)

[Wasphouse]

Well you'll be glad to know neither of you was right!!

 

Coming home tonight from a trip to aldershot I was waiting at a junction to turn right, I let out the clutch - and......grinding crunching noise and the car he no go forwards!! :)

 

The clutch feels fine the engine works fine but I have no drive (it's a manual!). It's either CV or gearbox - I haven't had a chance to look at it yet - Just had it lifted and brought home.

 

Get your thinking caps on!!! :ph34r:

[JohnR]

Well you'll be glad to know neither of you was right!!

 

Coming home tonight from a trip to aldershot I was waiting at a junction to turn right, I let out the clutch - and......grinding crunching noise and the car he no go forwards!! :)

 

The clutch feels fine the engine works fine but I have no drive (it's a manual!). It's either CV or gearbox - I haven't had a chance to look at it yet - Just had it lifted and brought home.

 

Get your thinking caps on!!! :ph34r:

 

Ouch! Hope its not too expensive :-(

[sepulchrave]

...Got mine on, it's the CV joint! :)

[Wasphouse]

I hope you're right! as it sounds expensive. I have had a quick look but can't find anything obvious. I'll wait until the morning then put it up on stands and get the engine tray off.

 

I'm hoping it is a CV and nothing else!!!

[sepulchrave]

...100K! CV fo'shizzle. OK? :)

[Wasphouse]

Which would you bet - Inner or outer?

[El Dingo]

...just in time for Christmas! Hope it isn't too expensive. I guess it could be worse than a CV joint... :)

[Wasphouse]

Right, I have the car on axle stands - I can't seem to get any movement that suggests any fault - but - if I run the engine put it into gear with the brakes on the right hand flange at the end of the drive shaft where it enters the gearbox/diff housing turns but the shaft doesn't.

 

Does this mean a more serious problem than just CV or am I looking at the wrong thing?

[JohnR]

Right, I have the car on axle stands - I can't seem to get any movement that suggests any fault - but - if I run the engine put it into gear with the brakes on the right hand flange at the end of the drive shaft where it enters the gearbox/diff housing turns but the shaft doesn't.

 

Does this mean a more serious problem than just CV or am I looking at the wrong thing?

 

Inner CV ist Kaputt.....you need a new drive shaft. Hopefully diff not been knackered when it went!

[El Dingo]

If you could post a pic?

 

From your description, this sounds like a failed CV joint, however, I'm happy to be proved wrong again. :blink:

[Wasphouse]

Thanks John

 

But my problem is that I can't see anything that resembles a CV joint - You have the intermediate bearing then the shaft seems to go straight into the diff housing - there are no joints or flanges with bolts in.

 

If you lookon the picture - where the shaft goes into the diff - there is a gold coloured bit - that turns but the shaft doesn't.

 

By the way this is a 2001/2 Mk2 Diesel

[Wasphouse]

Any ideas?

 

Do I pull out the half shaft - and If I do what then?

 

I know SeatKid - buy a new car :blink:

 

But if I want to fix this one (and I do!!)?

[Jimbo73]

I too have a clunking sound, its not when i pull away its more like when i go over unven ground i.e. when there has been roadworks done and one side is really bumpy.

 

i wasnt worried about it till i read this bit of the forum, I just turn the rasio up louder although i am scared now...... It doesnt happen when I pull off or brake or change gear, just the old bumpy ground.

 

no grinding - no baging - just the clink clunk....

 

I have a 2000 V reg Galaxy Ghia. Petrol 2.3

 

And I am absolutely useless with cars. My dad says it could be the bushes. He used to be a mechanic till about 15 years ago, and I keep telling him cars have changed since his day.

 

What would be my best course of action. Should I take it to a garage and ask them to look at something specifically, becasue I dont want to take it in and say there is a clunking noise, they will think open cheque book...

 

If you have any ideas what the likely candidate maybe please let me know...

 

Many thanks....

[JohnR]

I too have a clunking sound, its not when i pull away its more like when i go over unven ground i.e. when there has been roadworks done and one side is really bumpy.

 

i wasnt worried about it till i read this bit of the forum, I just turn the rasio up louder although i am scared now...... It doesnt happen when I pull off or brake or change gear, just the old bumpy ground.

 

no grinding - no baging - just the clink clunk....

 

I have a 2000 V reg Galaxy Ghia. Petrol 2.3

 

And I am absolutely useless with cars. My dad says it could be the bushes. He used to be a mechanic till about 15 years ago, and I keep telling him cars have changed since his day.

 

What would be my best course of action. Should I take it to a garage and ask them to look at something specifically, becasue I dont want to take it in and say there is a clunking noise, they will think open cheque book...

 

If you have any ideas what the likely candidate maybe please let me know...

 

Many thanks....

 

Number one candidate would be drop links (stabiliser rods...whatever....they get called different things). Get someone to rock car very hard whilst holding them to feel for clunks. They are cheap on ebay and easy to do.

 

 

Any ideas?

 

Do I pull out the half shaft - and If I do what then?

 

I know SeatKid - buy a new car :lol:

 

But if I want to fix this one (and I do!!)?

 

If you jack both wheels off the ground and put the car in gear if you rotate one wheel the other should go backwards....does it?? If not then I would suspect that the half shaft is not engaged in the spline or the diff has somehow popped. Not opened this up on a Gal yet so can't help more.

[Jimbo73]

Thanks for that... Were abouts are they located in the car. are they found under the bonnet? and if so were abouts. What do they look like.

 

Is there one on each side?

[JohnR]

Thanks for that... Were abouts are they located in the car. are they found under the bonnet? and if so were abouts. What do they look like.

 

Is there one on each side?

 

The drop links are on the front suspension.....just look under the wheel arches for a vertical link with bushes either end....

 

They look like this:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GALAXY-ALHAMBRA-SHAR...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

John

[NikpV]

Thanks for that... Were abouts are they located in the car. are they found under the bonnet? and if so were abouts. What do they look like.

 

Is there one on each side?

 

 

if you look at item 2 on the faq (click on the red link in my signature) you will get this post

[Jimbo73]

Thanks you very much.. Ordering 2 new rods as we speak off ebay.....

 

One more thing. I just noticed that when I have full lock on and move at slow speeds there is like a vibration noise cmoing from the steering or something...Could this be these rod things?

 

I hate cars...... I only bought this car a few weeks ago. I thinks he sold it to me for cheap because of these few minor faults.

 

Any ideas about the vibration type noise happening at slow speeds when full lock is on...???

 

Love this forum!! This is most probably the most helpful, useful and money saving forum I have ever known.....Just what the net should be about!!!

 

Many thanks....