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Vehicle & Technical => Defender => Topic started by: biggerlandy on March 04, 2007, 19:57:06

Title: gearbox
Post by: biggerlandy on March 04, 2007, 19:57:06

hi all anyone had this prob me is hoping it not box pete tong. sometimes go to change gear it all goes stiff and locks up cant select any gears i keep working to select gears after a few seconds they come back all ok :(

Title: gearbox
Post by: extreme90 on March 04, 2007, 21:07:29

u tried changing the oil ?

Title: gear
Post by: biggerlandy on March 04, 2007, 21:59:16

not yet will do asap

Title: gearbox
Post by: land-def-90 on March 04, 2007, 22:21:15

had same problem after fiting recon box, turned out to be a nut that conects the gear leaver to the box under the turret it had worked loose and made gear change very dificult ,tightend it up and it worked a treat

Title: gearbox
Post by: TDi90 on March 04, 2007, 22:24:28

could be the clutch on its way out  :cry:
lets pray its not tho bud, cos that can be an expensive/timeconsuming job!

Title: gear
Post by: biggerlandy on March 04, 2007, 22:50:40

what ever it is dont mind got my own workshop just wondering before i look if someone had same fault :D

Title: gearbox
Post by: extreme90 on March 04, 2007, 23:16:36

what gearbox is it  :roll: or did i miss that  :oops:

Title: gearbox
Post by: Magnum335 on March 05, 2007, 13:37:27

I had that on my r380. Reversed out of someones drive and it all locks up on me. Freed up again. About a month later it did it again, my landy man took it away, stuck a new gearbox in for free. When he took the box apart, some wire type retainer had broken and was lying across the teeth.

Title: gearbox
Post by: bombx3 on March 05, 2007, 17:43:44

H    hope you get it sorted for the weekend

Title: gearbox
Post by: biggerlandy on March 05, 2007, 20:27:41

well upon draining oil i found oil looked like summit out of a horror movie, and there was only about a pint in it  :(

Title: gearbox
Post by: bombx3 on March 05, 2007, 20:31:29

how much is it ment to hold

Title: gear
Post by: biggerlandy on March 05, 2007, 20:49:18

i think about 3 or 4 pints and i only got 1 photo

Title: gearbox
Post by: Muddy on March 05, 2007, 20:52:21

i think its 2.5 litres for an LT77 and 2litres for the PAS.

Title: gear
Post by: biggerlandy on March 05, 2007, 20:55:11

oooopss

Title: gearbox
Post by: biggerlandy on March 07, 2007, 18:29:48

well oil change and slick 50 in box and so far all is good :)