help! 90 td5 loss of gear's ?

[minty]

late last nite in my defender after reversing from a parking spot and about to select 1st gear it just went clunk  :?  didnt sound to good so i went to pull out of the road but there was no gear's at all  :shock: and now stuck in nutral  :x so does enyone have an idea as to what could be the problem    there was not slipping of the clutch no wineing just a clunk when i put it in gear this morroning it was trying to ingage but still nothing :?

[thermidorthelobster]

Obvious thing first - has the transfer box slipped into neutral?

When you say stuck in neutral, does the lever physically not move into the gears, or does the lever go and the box do nothing?

[minty]

no lever goes into gear but nothing happens and the same with transfer box :?

[thermidorthelobster]

Are the prop shafts still there?  :?

Have you tried engaging diff lock in case the gears are there but it's a drive issue?

[minty]

:?  if you mean the pieace that gose front to back and turns yes thats there  but wot you mean about the diff lock :?

[minty]

a ha its just taken a gear if i put diff lock on but wont take a gear in norm hi & low range  :?  so if you have eny idear on that please let me know.

iam off to work now so i cant answer questions untill morrning but please leave possable sol utions

[thermidorthelobster]

OK, if it works in diff lock then that means your gearbox is fine, but something in the centre diff or the transmission between the centre diff and the wheels is faulty.

With the car suitably restrained (eg nose against a wall), get somebody to put it in gear (diff lock off) and have a look at what is happening underneath at the prop shafts (the shafts that run from the central transfer box / diff to the differentials on the front and rear axles).  Either one prop shaft will be turning - in which case you have bust a diff or a half shaft (the shaft leading from the axle diff to the hub, inside the axle) - or neither will be turning, in which case it's the centre diff which is at fault, and for some reason it's not transmitting power to one of the prop shafts.

(When you put diff lock in, you force the centre diff to put power to both prop shafts independently, so if the centre diff or the transmission to one axle is faulty, you'll still get power to the other one, and hence the truck will move.)

[minty]

thanx for that info irl give it a go and see what happen's :D  

[minty]

turns out to be diffs all shot at the front  so local garage got it now and thay going to put a new starter on as well  :lol:  so hopefuly i wont have to rock it enymore now :lol:  and i hope there be no more problems with it now for a while  thanks for your help  =D>

[extreme90]

a td5 90 with a shot front diff  :shock: , what you been doing with it  :shock:

sure the garage just aint having your pants down ? or you checked it personaly yourself ?

dan

[smo]

Simplest way to check they are telling the truth is ask to see the bits they replace...

[extreme90]

prove that they off his land rover  
land ranger services back here in stoke have got a pile of nackerd bits...its o so easy to go grab a expensive broken bit and say..that was your problem...isnt it  :?

[smo]

Well most garages are unlikely to have a shot TD5 diff lying about to grab and BS their way through with.....its worth a shot!

[extreme90]

alsong as its 24spline it doesnt matter...bit of black paint  :lol:

i just cant see how a diff could be shot at such a early age  :? thats why im questioning :?
after all, look at all the old rrc 10 splines still going strong  :shock:

hows your td5 going smo btw ?

[smo]

Would that be the TD5 90 i wrote off??? Or the TD5 D-Lander....well, one is written off and the other is getting built, slowly!

[extreme90]

the build

[smo]

the build

Slowly, just waiting on a few bits then itll progress fairly quickly for a while!