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Vehicle & Technical => Range Rover => Topic started by: Rangierover on February 19, 2008, 20:04:55

Title: Transfer box!
Post by: Rangierover on February 19, 2008, 20:04:55

Hi there, i took my range rover for a bit a race up my mates farm at the weekend and it didnt go very well!....... i think the chain in the transfer box broke and it made a big hole in the side of the t/box an of course all the oil drained out but ive got a scrap range rover sitting at my place but its a manual (mine is an chrysler auto by the way) now what id like to no is how hard would it be to put the manual in it!? another quick question, is the transfer box a seperate unit on the auto as i no the LT85 is one unit?

Cheers
Ali

Title: Re: Transfer box!
Post by: Wolfie on February 19, 2008, 20:12:16

Quote from: Rangierover on February 19, 2008, 20:04:55

is the transfer box a seperate unit on the auto as i no the LT85 is one unit?

Borg Warner transfer box is a separate unit. http://www.ashcroft-transmissions.co.uk/category_4.html

Do you mean LT85 (Santana 5 Speed) as they do have a separate transfer box, or the LT95 four speed box which has integral TB.

Title: Re: Transfer box!
Post by: Guardian. on February 19, 2008, 20:20:33

yes mate the lt85 has the usual transfer same at lt77 and r380 gearboxes, i havent a clue about the 95 though.

Title: Re: Transfer box!
Post by: Rangierover on February 19, 2008, 20:27:20

so does the 3 speed auto thats in my range rover have the detachable borg warner t/box?????

Cheers

Title: Re: Transfer box!
Post by: Wolfie on February 19, 2008, 20:34:50

Quote from: Rangierover on February 19, 2008, 20:27:20

so does the 3 speed auto thats in my range rover have the detachable borg warner t/box?????

Cheers

:oops:
I need to be completely honest here, and admit that I don't know.

I read chain and auto but didn't read Chrysler and assumed that it was the BW box. What age is the RR as I see that Ashcrofts are only talking about post 1989 boxes.

Hopefully someone who knows more will be along soon.

Title: Re: Transfer box!
Post by: Rangierover on February 19, 2008, 21:04:23

Its a 1984 on an A Plate definatly a 3 speed auto box.

Title: Re: Transfer box!
Post by: ben_haynes on February 19, 2008, 21:27:05

i think it is the same my rangie 1984 (B) is a 3 speed (i think :oops:) and it looks very similar to the t/box on my manual Disco V8

Title: Re: Transfer box!
Post by: Range Rover Blues on February 20, 2008, 03:57:22

Well chain would make it Borg Warner, if it doesn't have a selectable diff-lock that makes it Borg Warner.

If it does have a manual diff lock that makes it LT230

Anyhoo, all the B-W transfer boxs are the same, manual, auto, 3 speed, LT77, R380 et al.

With the possible exeption that the handbrake backplate mountings were put on pretty much at the whim of some guy in a small hut in Bavaria.  I was chatting to Simon from X-Eng on Sunday about the problems he had trying to get a standardised backplate for the X-Brake to fit the B-W, so my advice is fit one complete with handbrake.

AFAIK you can put it pretty much straight on and the B_W doesn't have the issue with wearing the gearbox output shaft either.

I therefore sugggest that you fit the T-box only from the scrapper, the 3 speed might be "agricultural" by RR standard but it's the strongest auto box they fitted.