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Yes @Stanleysteamer, as per @Hippo's post above, I'd have thought a reconditioned gearbox is the best option. Various other bits and pieces on the car have already been renewed so you're dealing with a known vehicle rather than just buying someone else's problems and hoping for the best. It'll keep you busy swapping it in whilst W. (as you call her) is getting better. I see Ashcroft's offer various modifications to increase the capabilities of both the auto and manual options. Just the job for towing that 3.5 ton wine bowser.
 
Brown said:
It'll keep you busy swapping it in
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Have you ever tried taking out or putting back in a Disco 2 auto box, without a ramp etc? 🤣🤣🤣
I wouldn't dream of doing it.
So there are practical problems particularly as W cannot drive at the moment.
But yes, for all the reasons you stated, it is the obvious solution.
Maybe I will be able to order a recon box from Ashcrofts and get it sent to a Landy independent I know who would then swap them, and I could send the other box back to them, or even take it to them in the back of the Disco. (!🤣) Or even spend the night in an 'otel near them.
I am still going to try tightening the bolts on the valve chest or whatever it is called as that seems to be a "thing" to do and I know one on here who recommends it and another who did it on his RR, and it worked.
I don't believe in miracles, but it'll be a fairly simple thing to do once the current hoo-hah settles down.
 
... that last night's dins made up for the previous day, but it was foreshadowed by W having to go back into hospital and then threatening to discharge herself to make them get on and do something. (She had sat in the waiting room from 10 a.m. until she told them to take the canular out, as she was going, at half-past three. They then did stuff but it looks as she is going to have to go back in for another op. As usual. :(:(:()

It was great to see the rest of the folks and the meal was great. :):):)
I got some really nice presents. One being a bottle of Benromach 15 year old. But it was just nice to see all the kids and their spouses together. :):):)
 
Brown said:
No I haven't ever had a Disco so haven't changed the gearbox single handed at the side of the road. I'm getting pretty nifty with the Defender box though, having taken it out and put it (or its replacement) back in a few times now.

Get the version with the high capacity oil pan!
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I have changed other manual gearboxes and taken them out to change clutches, or do other work on them, either on a gravel drive or in our garage, the hardest being an old style BMW 2.8. Purely because of its size. I took it out on my own but needed a mate to be able to line up the splines in the clutch on reassembly.
But when the Disco's box had to come out to cure a leak a couple of years ago I took it to an indy I knew who has a ramp and he needed his wife's help! And he's a tall beefy guy. And he took the tranny box of first. (Pretty necessary really.)

I will look at the specs and the reasoning behind the need for any non-standard stuff. Cos TBH until now it has worked very well.
 
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....that I am feeling really sad. 😿
We went to clip the cats rear claws because she is ripping herself to bits.
At a crucial moment she kicked out while struggling to escape from our evil clutches and too much was taken off one of her claws.
She's bleeding quite a bit and I feel a real a-hole for hurting her. I have put some astringent on it and I am hoping it will stop bleeding. Blood always looks worse than it is (it seems to flow so well).
But, that's the last time I do it. :(
Sorry Scratchy-cat.
 
DanClarke said:
....that I am feeling really sad. 😿
We went to clip the cats rear claws because she is ripping herself to bits.
At a crucial moment she kicked out while struggling to escape from our evil clutches and too much was taken off one of her claws.
She's bleeding quite a bit and I feel a real a-hole for hurting her. I have put some astringent on it and I am hoping it will stop bleeding. Blood always looks worse than it is (it seems to flow so well).
But, that's the last time I do it. :(
Sorry Scratchy-cat.
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I always keep a styptic pencil for just such things, same thing you use on shaving cuts ...
 
DanClarke said:
....that I am feeling really sad. 😿
We went to clip the cats rear claws because she is ripping herself to bits.
At a crucial moment she kicked out while struggling to escape from our evil clutches and too much was taken off one of her claws.
She's bleeding quite a bit and I feel a real a-hole for hurting her. I have put some astringent on it and I am hoping it will stop bleeding. Blood always looks worse than it is (it seems to flow so well).
But, that's the last time I do it. :(
Sorry Scratchy-cat.
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sorry about that,:( Know how you feel, have occasionally done it with a dog and with no excuse other than you cannot see through the darker claws to where the quick is.
So sad the look they give you when you have done it.

But yours was being awkward and trying to scratch you......
 
Stanleysteamer said:
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Have you ever tried taking out or putting back in a Disco 2 auto box, without a ramp etc? 🤣🤣🤣
I wouldn't dream of doing it.
So there are practical problems particularly as W cannot drive at the moment.
But yes, for all the reasons you stated, it is the obvious solution.
Maybe I will be able to order a recon box from Ashcrofts and get it sent to a Landy independent I know who would then swap them, and I could send the other box back to them, or even take it to them in the back of the Disco. (!🤣) Or even spend the night in an 'otel near them.
I am still going to try tightening the bolts on the valve chest or whatever it is called as that seems to be a "thing" to do and I know one on here who recommends it and another who did it on his RR, and it worked.
I don't believe in miracles, but it'll be a fairly simple thing to do once the current hoo-hah settles down.
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Ive done it using an engine lift through the passenger side door on my driveway not something id recommend.
 
kevstar said:
Put my transfer box back together today, in the shed wiv the space heater on. My mate appears & says keep the 25th om may
clear on my diary as he's booked us into Bo'ness Italian car show day & he is putting his car on display. :):)
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Aww going to miss that, not in Bo'ness again till June.
Just having dinner in Grangemouth at the moment
 
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