Yes, should be able to turn it with pliers on it. RAVE has a troubleshooting section which shows the pins on the ratio motor connector and expected voltages. Just make sure there are lots of axle stands under those chassis rails when you are under there.
Rallymantony
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Pliers Grrrrr? I can turn the shaft in the transfer, am I misunderstanding? (highly possible). I didn't want to admit to this..... but I'mhaving trouble downloading the RAVE file, I'm not the greatest when it comes to tech stuff..
Rallymantony
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Ok, thanks Oakey, I may bite the bullet and buy a new selector.
brianp38dse
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If its the selector its a small plastic bit that clips over the rod that operates the natural switch which can be bypassed.
Pliers on the little triangular shaft you can see when you take the motor off. One way is high, the other is low.
A member on here put lots of different versions of RAVE in his dropbox account. It is absolutely invaluable so worth perservering. There's a single big PDF version too, albeit a bit clunky.
Rallymantony
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Thank you,I'll try to find it, all the ones I've found so far don't seem to work, that could just be me doing it wrong though....
Rallymantony
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Sorry Brian, are you on about the blue plastic circular cap held on by three screws? Think it has 4 wires going in to it from memory..
tomcat59alan
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Just tried my spare and I couldn't turn it , try plugging it back in but leave it off the transfer box and get someone to move the selector and see what happens.you could also put a fuse in position 11 in the seat fuse box,get someone to turn on the ignition and see if the motor turns to select the neutral position. Don't forget to remove it afterwards. If nothing moves mark the blue cover position, remove the three torque screws and check the selector gearbox, something could have jammed the cogs or the grease could have hardened.
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brianp38dse
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The plastic bit is on the gear selector extension housing and works the neutral switch,
on mine it used to say select neutral on dash every time you tried low range, i check up and found a tech bulletin on it and just put a jump lead in the switch plug as the switch is a gearbox out job from what i could see, you can only just get to the switch to unplug
as said if your need a hand shout.
