Nigel Whittaker
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My TD5 manual disco 2, a Td5 2004 model with R380 suffix J manual gearbox which has developed a gear selector problem which is not the usual bias plate/springs, these I have replaced.
This vehicle originally developed the occasional "baulk" in finding first gear and then when my wife was driving it she slowed to a stop at an intersection, upon selecting 1st gear she noted that the gear lever did not feel as though it had moved fully into 1st. with clutch depressed she attempted to shift back into neutral only to find that the gear selector was stuck fast and would not budge. The vehicle had to be towed home and upon inspection the lever was midway between first and neutral and the vehicle was still in neutral.
Subsequently it has decided to continuously do this under “normal’ selecting operation from neutral to 1st gear, with all other gears selecting fine.
If one put the gear lever into neutral and then moves it a short distance to the left, about half that to the ‘normal’ operation and then slides the gear selector forward and to the left at a slight angle, it slides perfectly into 1st….
The only way I found in releasing the previously stuck gear selector lever was to remove the centre consul and strip off the top of the gear selector housing, then remove the first spool retainer (R380 workshop manual states this to be 5th / reverse gears spooler that guides the interlock spool) just forward of the selector housing, re-assembling the selector and tugging gently the selector slides back into the neutral position.
I did notice that there is a little sideways movement on the selector shaft where the coupling is that houses the ball in which the gearlever fits into. Is this normal ???
Any advice to what the issue could be would be helpful, I am hoping (and praying
) that it does not mean the box has to be pulled and stripped down.... many thanks in advance…
This vehicle originally developed the occasional "baulk" in finding first gear and then when my wife was driving it she slowed to a stop at an intersection, upon selecting 1st gear she noted that the gear lever did not feel as though it had moved fully into 1st. with clutch depressed she attempted to shift back into neutral only to find that the gear selector was stuck fast and would not budge. The vehicle had to be towed home and upon inspection the lever was midway between first and neutral and the vehicle was still in neutral.
Subsequently it has decided to continuously do this under “normal’ selecting operation from neutral to 1st gear, with all other gears selecting fine.
If one put the gear lever into neutral and then moves it a short distance to the left, about half that to the ‘normal’ operation and then slides the gear selector forward and to the left at a slight angle, it slides perfectly into 1st….
The only way I found in releasing the previously stuck gear selector lever was to remove the centre consul and strip off the top of the gear selector housing, then remove the first spool retainer (R380 workshop manual states this to be 5th / reverse gears spooler that guides the interlock spool) just forward of the selector housing, re-assembling the selector and tugging gently the selector slides back into the neutral position.
I did notice that there is a little sideways movement on the selector shaft where the coupling is that houses the ball in which the gearlever fits into. Is this normal ???
Any advice to what the issue could be would be helpful, I am hoping (and praying
) that it does not mean the box has to be pulled and stripped down.... many thanks in advance…
