removing fairey free wheeling hubs

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geoffryehood@googlemail.com - 09 Nov 2007 23:28 GMT

hi newby on his first 110 5 door V8 stage one Series landy needs
advice on removing fairey free wheeling hub......first how are they
removed...they do not stay in 4X4 and second what parts do i need to
repalce them.....who sells the bits...my local LR dealer is about as
useful as a Brabant dealer...did not know what free whling hub
were.....having sold me the stage one vehicule they took as a trade in

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Tom Woods - 10 Nov 2007 00:08 GMT

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:28:39 -0800, geoffryehood wrote:

> hi newby on his first 110 5 door V8 stage one Series landy needs advice
> on removing fairey free wheeling hub......first how are they
> removed...they do not stay in 4X4 and second what parts do i need to
> repalce them.....who sells the bits...my local LR dealer is about as
> useful as a Brabant dealer...did not know what free whling hub
> were.....having sold me the stage one vehicule they took as a trade in

I may be getting my FWH makes mixed up, but i think to do the fairey ones
you undo the screw that is on one side. This goes through a loop in what
looks like the end of a cable tie.
Once the screw is out you can pull the cable tie all the way out of the
screw hole and this releases the cap off the hub. There may be couple of
other screws/bolts too but i cant remember properly without seeing it.

The manual for the fairey hubs is floating about on the net somewhere if
you search for it.

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Dougal - 10 Nov 2007 09:56 GMT

> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:28:39 -0800, geoffryehood wrote:
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> screw hole and this releases the cap off the hub. There may be couple of
> other screws/bolts too but i cant remember properly without seeing it.

That's the later Fairey design which was operated by hand. The earlier
Fairey design had a 'nut' in the cetre of the outer face that you turned
with a spanner to lock/unlock.

If you open them up it may be obvious what's wrong and you may be able
to recover them with a good clean and rotating parts so that unworn bits
are used. I don't think that new parts are available from anywhere now:
repair by cannibalisation.

There's an automatic Fairey, too, and some other makes.

> The manual for the fairey hubs is floating about on the net somewhere if
> you search for it.

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Dougal - 10 Nov 2007 10:44 GMT

>> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:28:39 -0800, geoffryehood wrote:
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>> The manual for the fairey hubs is floating about on the net somewhere
>> if you search for it.

This is the hand-operated Fairey:
http://www.landrover.ee/est/files/manuals/acessories/FreeWheelingHubs.pdf

I forgot to ask under what circumstances the hubs don't stay locked. The
hand operated Faireys and any similar designs have a failing resulting
from the introduction of the 'user-friendly' spanner-less design. In
deep ruts the ribbed knob can rub on the ground and vehicle motion does
the rest unlocking the hub.

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Tom Woods - 10 Nov 2007 11:13 GMT

>> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:28:39 -0800, geoffryehood wrote:
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> Fairey design had a 'nut' in the cetre of the outer face that you turned
> with a spanner to lock/unlock.

on a stage one he is more likely to have the later design.
I've had both variations i think. The ones with the nut are really
obvious how to remove but the later ones less so.

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Duracell Bunny - 10 Nov 2007 08:05 GMT

> hi newby on his first 110 5 door V8 stage one Series landy needs
> advice on removing fairey free wheeling hub......first how are they
> removed...they do not stay in 4X4 and second what parts do i need to
> repalce them.....who sells the bits...my local LR dealer is about as
> useful as a Brabant dealer...did not know what free whling hub
> were.....having sold me the stage one vehicule they took as a trade in

There's a few different versions - the ones I had were manual ones, remove the
six bolts, open the first cover up, remove split pin & undo castle nut. Rest of
the unit will now come off. No need to remove wheel unless you don't want oil on
the tyres.

If you're not re-fitting, you'll need 6 shorter bolts & a drive member to get
you going again.

HTH

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