Disco 2 Which bolt is missing from Disco autobox?

Hi,

First things first: 99 D2 LHD with 210K KM, TD5 auto. Had it about 2 years.

Gearbox gave in, no forward gears, only reverse. Hawkeye fault code P0722 "torque converter slipping". I'm in the process of getting under the car to see if it's low on oil (see long story under) and I notice that I'm missing 1, maybe 2 screws holding the gearbox in place (see picture I took compared to workshop manual).

Pic from workshop manual I'm calling the bolts 1 through 6, left to right.

Problem is I can't see if it's the one I have numbered 6 or 7 in the pic that's missing (or if 5 is not meant to be there). Nr 5 points to the bolt, not the wading plug. Anyone tell me, which bolt(s) is it?





Story (long version)
I had a LR dealership replace the rubber seal on my leaking autobox about a year ago, recently I got the M&S lights on and could not move forward in any forward gear, but was able to reverse. Just got the tools together to start looking into it, this was the first thing I noticed. I am not happy about having a bolt missing, as I mentioned, the car was at a LR dealership and the gearbox was removed/dropped to replace the seal (between the transmission and transfer). So either they didn't replace all the bolts, or didn't torque them correctly and they've since dropped out. There is a very long story attached to why I will never return to that dealership, one day I'll write up for the amusement of all. Right now I just need to know which of the bolts is missing! Having said that, an important detail relating to why the trans is failing might be because the dealership fried my BCU, took over a month to sort that (incompetence level 9000), then of course, and it never occurred to stupid me at the time, could not go through the correct procedure for filling the gearbox with oil, because with no working BCU, they had no way to start the Disco and no way to run the trans pump while they went through the gears... So I've probably been driving it low on oil for months. And now I find a bolt(s) missing.

Cheers to anyone who can help!

Im pretty sure if the engine runs thats all you need to do the fill/spill check on the autobox oil level? a cheap laser temp probe will tell you the oil temp pretty accurately.
If the remaniing bolts are tight than whilst thats a minor issue its not your main one, the oil level is a lot more important.
The thing is the indy would have most likely done the job right for less money

Hi Iynall, like I said it a long story about the dealership, I was dead against the car going there but the insurance wanted it towed there or else I had to pay a lot of £££. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, because if I had known what was to come...

I hope you're right about it just being the oil level, that is what my father-in-law also speculated. He doesn't know anything about Landys but he has worked on a lot of plant machinery and claims to know gearboxes well enough. I live in the back of beyond and I'm waiting on the necessary to get the oil filled up, but in the meantime, do you know which bolt is missing from the gearbox mounts and the size?

Sorry cant tell you bolts size but would hazard its M10 thread, easy enough to pull out another and measure it.
Im sure my 200tdi is M10 think the D3 is the same and the trucks I work on are also M10

If you ask Jamesmartin he will have a good idea.

Bolts 6 & 7 are bolted from the other side, there wouldn't be bolts in there, the threads in the casting are clearly visible.

Peter

Thanks, I honestly never thought to look at the other side of the gearbox. The threads are clearly visible from the rear of the car, and the image from the workshop manual and parts manual make it look like all six bolts go in one way. Just been under there and the 'missing two' are both in place, meaning that there in fact seven holding the gearbox in place, and not six like the workshop manual says. Odd I think.