ormondstreet
Active Member
I'm thinking of buying a 1997 300Tdi, which is very tidy. It has not been used off road and as a consequence the diff lock lever has seized, what would be involved in curing this problem?
Richard Martin
Well-Known Member
you need to get the centre console out, remove the bit of housing that the "little" gear lever goes in to. Diss-assemble it, free it up and then re-assemble with plenty of copper grease, a couple of hours work
I had this problem with mine, same as above. There is a metal surround that holds a sound insulator in place, you need to drill the rivets out to remove it When i got to the oily bits i just blasted a load of wd40 into it and left it a while, you can give the lever some force to get it back. It's not a hard job but i would use it as a bargaining tool!
