Spong said:

I've managed to get a spanner on to it, but they don't make it easy do they? Ìve got a filter kit that I didn't get around to fiting on the previous Disco, so I think I'll fit that while I'm there and then fill the box up. The litre (if that) of ATF that came out was pretty brown. Might do a few miles on that and then change it again.
@Alpinejim , it came undone at the gearbox end, rather than the cooler. I thought the cooler end was a push on type connection?

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marjon said:

I would fit/fill then run, then fit the new filter with more new fluid. You still don't know if the box has suffered, save the filter for the next 1
You may find you need quite a bit more fluid than normal as its been pumped out, and the cooler may have drained a bit.

J

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Spong said:

Hmm, no joy.
I've dropped the sump and cleaned it out, no lumps of metal on the magnet, fitted a new filter and refilled - it only took about a litre to fill the sump. Started the engine and filled again, moving through the gears etc, took a bit more fluid but not much.
Put it back on the ground but no drive still.
I suspect an airlock, as its really taken hardly any fluid compared to its capacity.

Covering all my options, can anyone recommend a garage in the Surrey / Hants area that good with this sort of thing? Keith Gott I know about, but just wondering if there are any others I'm unaware of....

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PopPops said:

You could give Ashcroft a call, they must have seen this before.

The connection at the top of the box is the flow to the cooler (except in lockup). On mine I just refilled, didn't even drain it, to avoid adding any other unknowns (and I HAD to get it off the road and into the drive anyway) and hoped, and all was OK. You said your drive was on a slope. Could it be this is too much of a slope to fill the box properly? Mine has run for a few hundred miles since with no apparent difference to before the incident. I only managed to get 5l in, but, as I said, I didn't drain it first to get that last drop out.

There have been a number of these "incidents" reported, but none seem to have resulted in box failure, so I hope you will be lucky.

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