Hi all,
The steering rack on my rangey is knackered. Very unhealthy movement and noise, predominantly on OSF.
The arm can be waggled all over the place.
New options seem to be eye watering and I'm selling it soon.
Breakers have a few but from different years.
Does anybody know which years and models of L322 shared the same rack?
Thanks
Dylan

I think they're all interchangeable - with very minor differences to the "assistance characteristic" provided by the Servotronic valve - which you could swop from your existing rack.

When the rack was knackered on my 2006 TDV8 I found a s/h replacement from a 2009 car that was in much better condition.
Before you get carried away with the pain of a rack change, have you checked the condition of the ball joints between the rack & inner arms (aka drumsticks). These can also wear as well as the ball joints / Track Rod Ends with the hubs.
If you lie on the floor & hold the actual rack through the boot, right next to the housing, you can easily detect if the rack is moving up/down inside the housing while someone else operates the steering wheel side to side. (You may have already done this !)

On mine there was 3mm of wear in the rack housing on the drivers side - allowing the complete rack to move up & down.
Some people have allegedly taken up some play at this point by tightening the big hex head that controls the bias on the rack. On mine I couldn't even if rotate it and because it was also leaking at the passenger side badly, I decided to change the complete rack.
I was lucky the s/h rack only cost £95 !
It took quite a few hours to change (See my write-up here if you're into DIY)
https://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic55023...ering+rack Paul,
2001 Discovery 2 TD5, 211,000 miles & climbing
2006 FFRR TDV8 Vogue 145,000 miles & climbing
Member of Midland (Land) Rover Owners Club, www.mroc.co.uk

Pawl,
Aye the inner tie rods are good, previously in appalling condition. Almost every arm, drop link, control arm etc is new. Basically skirted around the main course before accepting it's the rack. Not a happy place but can't sell the buggy to anyone with the rack giving out a death rattle.
Just trying to identify which of the used racks I can fit. Have a VGC unit from an 03 on offer locally but cagey about compatibility.
Needless to say, LR dealers less than helpful with such info. As if I'm going to pay £2800 to them for a new part only anyway!
Thanks for info.

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