Lt77 puzle

[bigwood]

Last December the bias spring plate broke, usual things like vague gearchange reversing lights stuck on. New plate fitted and no trouble until Easter this year. I backed up ten feet to drive out of the workshop to the car park same fault appeared  :doh:. After two days the fault disappeared. Yesterday same thing happened again,  :x. This afternoon sure enough after work the dammed thing has gone back to normal. I don't mind the floppy gearchange but if it goes into reverse in traffic it may upset a few people. :troll:

[extreme90]

i take it you offroad it ?
you'll proberly find that the plunger on reverse has stuck in
i had a disco box fitted to my comp truck briefly, and it used to do it all the whilst, and it was very annoying, so i fitted a R380, problem solved  :lol:

[bigwood]

 :-kYes I have been off road in it, Masham moor in February, Eskdale in April but nothing too severe. I killed my 90 at Kirton and that nearly cost me a divorce so being allowed back on Landrovers meant some discipline had to be applied this time hence the Disco. I can get my head round what is going on now.I must get hold of a picture of the innards of an LT77 to see what ails it. Maybe it would be worth taking the consul up and seeing if the plunger could be made to stick less For now take bulbs out of reversing lights. :tappity:

[extreme90]

remove all the center console bits so you can see the top of the box
take the cover of the selector housing so you can see the bias spring ect
then see if the plunger is sticking.....i used fill it up with atf to lube it
dan

[bigwood]

I will live with the problem for now, the centre consul may have to come up some day to sort out my rear window fuse eating habits. The gear change is no worse than some trucks I drove in the army, Scamels with a gate change especially,  and it is only lasting a couple of days before it clears its self at the moment :D