Thank you indeed. I am taking the front drive shaft off tomorrow and will to her to a Land Rover workshop next week some 20 km from where I stay. They will then remove the gearbox and send it in to a workshop (specialising in automatic transmissions) in which this LR place has a lot of...

Thank you for your detailed reply, Ratae. It is information sharing like this from very experienced guys like you that makes this forum such a great treasure of information! I am now started the process of finding spares/ professional transmission workshop with skiled technicians. Importing is...

Dear All. I am (unfortunately) back. After what I thought was a permanent fix to the automatic gearbox's problem with the kickdown cable positioned back into its slot I did about 500 km. And then. It happened. All forward gears are missing. Not in low range. Not in 1st. Or 2nd. Or 3rd. Not in...

Whilst I agree in general that if it is not recorded for the taxman, why bother? - I still do it meticulously since 1977 - reason being that any deviation from the norm is an early sign that something might be wrong, excluding and providing for towing etc. I like the "smiles for miles"...

Is that it? 22 mpg...or 10.7 litres/ 100 km. I wish to record those kind of figures! Congrats goonarmy! You are the winner, pity you guys have some fuel shortages over there? Or distribution hick- ups, otherwise we could have sponsored you for a quarter tank of fuel as winner...that equates to a...

Thank you and best wishes to all.

'81 3.5

The road speeds are as follows: ( in km/ hr) 1st to second around 20, 2nd to 3rd around 40, 3rd to 4th around 80- that is in mph 12, 25,50. I am unsure how to state the throttle position but I was light on the accelerator pedal.

And so I can end this thread by confirming that my RRC '91's auto transmission has been fixed. Shifting from 1st to 2nd at 2500, 2nd to 3rd at 2500 and 3rd to 4th at 3000 rpm. Does it sound right to all the experts out there?

Dear All...any more fuel consumption statistics on a 3.9 efi? I am doing an excel spreadsheet and intent to share it on this thread. Yes I'll convert it to mpg AND l/100 km.

Thank you - (forgotten) old trick (reminder)!

Hi guys- I was wondering what is the best and average fuel consumption ever recorded by anyone on the Range Rover Classic forum? Shall we stick to litre per 100 km as reference? Or mpg? Time to show off...or! to start developing an electric motor? as a retrofit...?

I grew up in the southern parts of Namibia- still own farmland there. We have always used Land Rovers on the farm and various bodies and parts of chassis bear evidence of what they went through. I recall a '55 swb series 2 that was used with a "donkey" plough behind to lay a pipe line- 15 km in...

Good evening all. Happy to share with you that my 3.9 efi '91 RRC is changing gears at between 2500 and 3000 revolutions all running smoothly again. Cable and setting sorted without too much of a problem, yet way off the magic 39 mm quoted. After 30 years the cable must have stretched a bit...

Thank you for your reply, Ratea

Regarding oil in the face taking off the valve body - I have managed to skio that by draing the transmission fluid on day 1, putting the drain plug back on. Then on day 3 I have drained the second batch - a further roughly 2 litres. On day 6 I have removed the valve body and got 2 droplets of...

Thank you "Marshall8hp" (David) - I shall do - interesting enough, the filter also looked all clogged up. You'll recall the initial issue with a transmission pipe to the cooler that sprung a leak. The box lost its fluid and the car got stuck. I then got it going again and had to really rev her...

Hi guys. Update. My problem ended up beingvthe kickdown cable - it jumped off the cam. I have put it back on. Next a new filter will be fitted and then I need once again some help: how to adjust the kickdown cable... Best

Hi guys recently I ended up with a RRC 3.9 efi auto that didn't want to shift up. Opened up the transmission today and yes, the kickdown cable jumped off the cam. Refitted no problem. Next question is setting the cable. Read about 39 mm etc. Is the 39 mm from the base for the outer casing...

Morning All. Hope you guys are all well and still in love with that thing called "Land Rover"...even though, ok, let us leave it at that... My "Dearest Rangie" - yes the one that is not shifting up in gears here under discussion- shifted down perfectly fine from 4th to one during the times I...