It was as stiff as a board.

[GRUNT]

Now then just let me run this past you.

I was out in the 90 earlier on thinking to myself how well it was running and how good life was, when I had to drop down the gears to pull onto a main road. Well it came out of fifth OK but wouldnt go in any other gear, the lever was realy stiff, I pumped the clutch but it seemed Ok I could hear it engageing and disengageing. I finaly managed to get it into third and set off tried to change to fourth but it wouldn't have it. Any old how a mile or so later I turned left onto a minor road and changed down to second without any problem then up again and all of a sudden there was nothing wrong at all.

So whats going on then? was it the landie tapping into my thoughts and saying **** you, or is there something amiss?

 

[yella]

thats just a landy being a landy grunter

 

[GRUNT]

Thts what I thought. Kin things.

 

[discomania]

Could have been a bubble or 2 in the hydralics... and you worked it out with pumping the clutch.

 

[Treev150]

I think you should set about kissing and polishing your Landy cos it's after some attention.

 

[slob]

aye its either air in yer fluids or you need to get that rangie bloke to give it a good humpin..

 

[GRUNT]

Kissing and polishing, kissing and polishing PAH!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[GRUNT]

Chuffin things just done it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't think it's the clutch I reckon it's the selector arms. Thing is I stripped the gearbox a few months ago and every thing was OK.

 

[bowers1986]

Im having a similar problem with my defender 90,,It was running fine then yesterday whilst driving to work I went to shift down into a lower gear and it wouldn't go in.Today I had the same problem but wiggled the gear shifter side to side and pumped clutch an it seems fine now,,,?? Any advice on this problem would be great

 

[bustersbus]

Im having a similar problem with my defender 90,,It was running fine then yesterday whilst driving to work I went to shift down into a lower gear and it wouldn't go in.Today I had the same problem but wiggled the gear shifter side to side and pumped clutch an it seems fine now,,,?? Any advice on this problem would be great

Bloody newbie hijackin' a fred alert!!!!
Have ye introduced yersel' tae the forum proper like?

 

[bowers1986]

Didnt realise i had too??whats the problem!

 

[bustersbus]

Didnt realise i had too??whats the problem!

Ah think it's customary tae say hello in the INTRODUCE YERSELF bit furst.

What dae ye mean by "what's the problem!" ?

 

[mondo]

Im having a similar problem with my defender 90,,It was running fine then yesterday whilst driving to work I went to shift down into a lower gear and it wouldn't go in.Today I had the same problem but wiggled the gear shifter side to side and pumped clutch an it seems fine now,,,?? Any advice on this problem would be great

yer do wot grunt did (original post)

total galv chassis up rebuild ~

ony way t go mate
BY the way that wer a year old post !

he's nearly gorrit sortid

Dint mean t **** on yer chips or out

 

[bowers1986]

so what was the problem with grunts then...as mentioned myn seems fine now,,but would like to no the cause of it

 

[bustersbus]

so what was the problem with grunts then...as mentioned myn seems fine now,,but would like to no the cause of it

Have a read of the posts..... ah think thurs a clue in there sumwheres

 

[bowers1986]

Nice one cheers for all your help

 

[GRUNT]

Reet then are you sitting comfortably cos I'll tell yer wots gone on.

Wot happened was this, yer see, I was going up some steep hills at Kirton quarry a year an half ago an the gear lever siezed solid, so a very nice man came an took it home for me an I stripped the gearbox, but **** find owt wrong the synchros where within limits, just, an all the bearings were OK.

So I bunged it all back together with a new clutch an usual bits an bobs. And bugger me if it dint start playing up again only this time I could eventually get the gear lever to move.

Any how I stripped the gear box again but still **** find owt wrong with it. so decided to replace the synchro rings an selector forks an rods just for the hell of it. while I had the synchro hubs apart I had a look at the slipper pads, little lumps of pressed steel that hold and help pull the outer bit of the synchro gear in place, any old how one was quite worn so I replaced them, an bunged it all back together.

Now then although the gears still weren't as easy to get as I would have liked mainly changing from 3rd to 4th, It was better than it was. I got into the habit of brining the lever down as if I was going from second to fourth then pushing it up into third, which worked a treat.

Any road up I was pratting about doing summat else an had to take the gear lever off, when I put it back on I thought just fer a laff I'd put it back on in a different position. An bugger me if I couldn't engage fost gear without crunching the box, but going fro second to third was a piece of ****. So I move the lever round a couple of notches to get a half decent gear change between all gears. It can still be a bitch if I try rushing things though.

Anyold how if any ones still reading this, I reckon on hindsight I should have replaced the third fourth synchro hub an gears. An should have mebbee done it while I had it out to do the chassis but **** be arsed.

 

[Take5]

Aye, I'm still readin, occasionally I have a job going down from 3rd to 2nd, double de-clutch usually works and it slips straight in.

Might brave it and do a gearbox rebuild in the spring...

 

[GRUNT]

Snot that difficult reeely, you need some special tools, a big ferk off torque wrench, an some where to do it. Did see Paddocks Haddocks or someone was doing recon ones fer three undred quid or summat advertized in Decembers LRO.

 

[GRUNT]

Thing is as well if my gearbox was ever reconned by a reel gearbox mender I doubt if they'd change the 3rd/4th gear gubbins cos you can't see owt wrong with it. So who knows wot you'll get in a recon one.