Rabat Matt
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I put my Disco 1 up on axle stands to check if the Diff Lock was engaging (just bought it and it hasn't been off-road in living memory, and there's no diff-lock warning light, so I was expecting the selector to be seized), but I don't understand what the h*ll is actually going on.
First, there was no evidence of the central diff locking (when I turned the back left side wheel by hand, only the back right turned), so I started the engine.
Then, with the engine running and the gearbox in 1st, in high range the back two wheels and the front left spun. With the same thing but in low range, only the back two wheels spun. There was a very slight tendency of the free-wheeling wheels to spin with the driven wheels, but it was easily stopped by hand.
Thanks in advance to any thoughts on how to go about figuring out what's going on under there.
First, there was no evidence of the central diff locking (when I turned the back left side wheel by hand, only the back right turned), so I started the engine.
Then, with the engine running and the gearbox in 1st, in high range the back two wheels and the front left spun. With the same thing but in low range, only the back two wheels spun. There was a very slight tendency of the free-wheeling wheels to spin with the driven wheels, but it was easily stopped by hand.
Thanks in advance to any thoughts on how to go about figuring out what's going on under there.