tombardier
Well-Known Member
Greetings. I usually frequent that other forum where they talk about the coil sprung younger brothers of the series landys 
My work colleague has a pretty serious show-stopping problem on his landy today though, so I thought I'd ask you guys about the symptoms. (edit: it's a 1980 series 3 - 2 1/4 petrol)
Apparently, when he got to work, he noticed he had loads of oil ****ing out at the back of the engine, and assumed it would be the rear output oil seal. He left it in the work car park all day, and when he got back to it after work, it basically didn't have any drive.. The symptoms are:
1 - if you start the engine, put the clutch in and then try to select a gear, you just get the grinding noise as if you weren't dis-engaging the clutch
2 - You can start the engine in gear, and you don't get even the slightest amount of movement, nor grinding or anything.
So basically, it seems to me that the clutch is oil contaminated, but why would that mean that the pedal doesn't dis-engage. Is there anything that the oil leak could have broken in the clutch mechanism? There's plenty of oil in the clutch reservoir itself, so I'm assuming that the oil that was ****ing out is actually engine oil, although I didn't see it myself, so it could be gearbox oil?
we tried all combinations of hi-lo and 4wd, but it obviously didn't make any difference.
I'm probably going to tow him to a garage tomorrow with my 90... Hey, on the bright side, maybe he'll sell it to me cheap now it's knackered
Cheers for any help.
My work colleague has a pretty serious show-stopping problem on his landy today though, so I thought I'd ask you guys about the symptoms. (edit: it's a 1980 series 3 - 2 1/4 petrol)Apparently, when he got to work, he noticed he had loads of oil ****ing out at the back of the engine, and assumed it would be the rear output oil seal. He left it in the work car park all day, and when he got back to it after work, it basically didn't have any drive.. The symptoms are:
1 - if you start the engine, put the clutch in and then try to select a gear, you just get the grinding noise as if you weren't dis-engaging the clutch
2 - You can start the engine in gear, and you don't get even the slightest amount of movement, nor grinding or anything.
So basically, it seems to me that the clutch is oil contaminated, but why would that mean that the pedal doesn't dis-engage. Is there anything that the oil leak could have broken in the clutch mechanism? There's plenty of oil in the clutch reservoir itself, so I'm assuming that the oil that was ****ing out is actually engine oil, although I didn't see it myself, so it could be gearbox oil?
we tried all combinations of hi-lo and 4wd, but it obviously didn't make any difference.
I'm probably going to tow him to a garage tomorrow with my 90... Hey, on the bright side, maybe he'll sell it to me cheap now it's knackered
Cheers for any help.
