BennehBoy's D2 adventure

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Guess what I'm up to this weekend...

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Got the R380 back together, pic below is just before refitting the turret.

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I'll give the casing a lick of paint before it goes back on the car.

Started cleaning down the various bits of the LT230, the case has a film of brass muck where the thrust washers have been eaten through, very mucky. Also ordered new diff bearings as I'm bound to break the old ones getting them off the diff carrier to fit to the AATB. Got some new seals, felts, and o-rings coming too.

Fingers crossed all reassembled and ready to go back on at the weekend.

Getting fed up of stinking of paraffin.
 
The lower section of the gear lever that sits in the turret has really deep wear from the bias springs, about 1.5 to 2mm deep lines scored.

I've heard people have welded them up and ground them before, although I have a welder I've never used it/bought gas/wire :D

Looked at a replacement lever and they're 130 bloody quid.
 
Getting there slowly, gear set stripped off the old center diff housing, ready to go on the AATB. Just got to finish cleaning off all the other parts now, slowest part of the job to be honest.

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Bennehboy said:
Getting there slowly, gear set stripped off the old center diff housing, ready to go on the AATB. Just got to finish cleaning off all the other parts now, slowest part of the job to be honest.

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Don't forget proper cleaning can make all the difference, even when I take the wheels of any of the family's vehicles out comes the wheel cleaner (or wonder wheels depending on how bad they are) to get all the brake dust off ! Like you say always the longest bit of most jobs but we'll worth it, all the best.
 
Neither, this thing lives in the transfer box. I've got an Ashcroft air locker in the rear diff, and a 4 pin mil diff in the front.

EDIT, just re-read and maybe I misunderstood... if so, no I'm not going to put a locker in the front axle, I just don't think I get into situations extreme enough to warrant it.
 
Bennehboy said:
I've got a 300m shaft coming from ashcroft's and instead of using a crush tube I'm going to use a TD5 spec spacer tube... I measured up the crush tube and I have a spacer the exact same length.
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It's probably worth noting that I wasn't able to use the TD5 spec spacer tube, the intermediate gear that arrived must've been a later type to the one that was previously in, it didn't have snap rings in it to position the bearing tracks, it had machined in shoulders. Anyhow, upshot is that the tube length required is different (I re-used the bearings from my own box).

I measured up how much endfloat there was with the longest spacer tube in and it was .15 mm. The part numbers for the spacers can be had from microcat, it handily shows the length for each one. They're 25 quid each plus shipping so I just decided to use a crush tube and put a damned good stalking on the nut :D I may come back to this as it's easy enough to change it with the box still on the vehicle. The last one managed 10 years, so maybe I won't be inclined to rebuild this thing when I'm 64.
 
Car is all back together.... BUT... the battery is fubar. had it on trickle for 48 hours and it's only holding 11.6 volts :/

Can't even jump start it as it's nose first on the drive.

These things are sent to test us.
 
Got the car fired up.

First impressions, very positive... zero drive train slop. Need to get it off road soon for a play.

No leaks from either box yet, let's see what a few more miles do.

Got some more jobs to complete over the coming weeks:

* Reseal rear diff - got to pull both hubs for that.
* Chisel front diff fill plug out - can't get the bugger to move to be able to check the oil.
* Replace the steering knuckle, got a little bit of left right play that I want to eliminate
* new rocker cover gasket, top hats, and front cam seal, stop some oil leaks
* shuttle valve switch rewire, to banish the 3 amigos.

Plenty to do.
 
What an absolute pain! So much complex and buggered by a terminal.clamp 🤣

I used this on my 110 shuttle valve. 10k later and still spot on!

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Land Rover Discovery 2 Defender ABS Modulator Shuttle Valve Switch Repair Kit | eBay

The shuttle valves are bolted in to the module at the bottom which puts pressure on the internal wiring, the wiring fractures and causes the shuttle valve Resistance to go to high. The ABS Ecu monitors the resistance, when it goes too high it logs Shuttle Valve Switch Failure.
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Cheers, I've seen those before - I've done the fix a couple times previously for other people so am pretty confident of using just a new replacement switch set and adding in the wiring myself (famous last words!).

Reverse selection seems a bit hit and miss on the rebuilt R380 - I think the inhibitor may be sticky so I'll whip the turret back off and give it a fettle with some oil... that's the usual culprit.
 
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