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When i first started work in the mid 70's i was 5' nothing and weighed around 6 stone and so was gifted with the name Spadger (Little sparrow according to something i looked up years ago) it hung around with me for years until i left the UK for NZ. I still get it occasionally as a couple of...

Manufacturers do like to make things more difficult than they should be. Fitting tape around the square section will increase the overall diameter which is already considerably (%20 according to your previous post) greater than the actual shaft size, i would probably lube up with lashings of...

Sometimes, my range goes into fault mode and the faults won't clear. The fault is both the right hand sensors that measure the height. They provide a reading that is not accepted by the ecu and so register 2 hard faults. I simply jack up under the chassis to obtain a different height where the...

Chance of finding a 2nd hand motor for this in NZ is pretty unlikely unless i could find one in a different type of vehicle. Are they fitted to anything else? I am a mechanic so quite happy to pull and dismantle engine myself but parts over here are mega dollars so could possibly source parts...

I doubt the width of the square section is any bigger than the diameter of the selector shaft where the seal sits, so it should just slide over.

Gidday, I currently run a P38 diesel and have had a great run, (touch wood), but i now have an option of a 2007 V8 diesel Range rover with a blown (possibly hydraulicked) motor. Should i buy it? Are they a good bus? do they give lots of trouble? are the motors a costly overhaul? The engine is...

I know I'm not the only one who has put the wrong fuel in there wagon, but i maybe the only one to own up to it. Yesterday whilst daydreaming at the gas station i managed to pump 20 litres of petrol in to my diesel rangey. Oblivious, i drove off and 10km down the road wondered what was...

I disconnected the single wire temp sensor at idle when the vehicle was warm and the temp gauge went to cold. If this sensor was at fault then when the auto was playing up the gauge would also fluctuate and i would have noticed, so i am guessing its the edu sensor. I have found a new one on...

I took the rangey to an auto specialist, and he scanned the vehicle. He drove the vehicle till the fault occured and recorded the live data. At the time the fault was occurring, the engine temp was erratic, sometimes reading as low as -41 degrees. This ,he said, would cause the lock up to drop...

I guess the ecu sensor feeds the engine temp to the engine ecu, which tells the auto ecu to hold gearshifts longer to allow the engine to heat up faster from cold, at a guess anyway. However i will get one and bung it in and see how it goes. Thanks guys for your input, i will let you know what...

OK, so the parts i need as far as i know are STC2299, and NSC100820. Both parts are ex UK and will over 100 pounds plus freight, and these are not even genuine parts. Does anybody know where i can get the two sensors from at a more reasonable price? Wammers, mine has the brown 1 pin sensor in...

I had it checked out for an intermittant auto shift problem at a trans specialist. When it faulted he noticed that the coolant temp reading was erratic and that at one stage the coolant temp on live data on his snap on scanner was reading at -41 degrees. The techie says that coolant temp...

Which one controls gearshift on auto trans? Sorry, should have guessed it's the rear one for the ECU. Or is it?

1998 2.5 dse

Gidday, I am on the hunt for a coolant temp sensor. Apparently mine is faulty, and causing the automatic transmission to do some weird gear shifts. I have made some enquiries and my sensor has only one wire to it whereas according to land rover agents the sensor has 2 contacts. I have...

Thanks Wammers.

Gidday Anybody have a link to a site that explains how to recon the valve body in words of two syllables or less? Thanks.

Thanks for the input guys, I'm not the rip **** and bust sort of guy, so wading in and fitting another trans is not going to happen till i know what is causing the problem. I still think the problem is electrical, but i am not ruling out the lock up torque converter. The oil looks ok and it is...

I still haven't checked my solenoid resistances yet but hope to tomorrow. I will make a few enquiries with the local autobox expert also. The 4hp22 auto is fitted to a heap of vehicles and i imagine would interchange as long as you use the correct bell housing and torque converter. I guess the...

I have been told lead to believe that the valve body from a petrol auto and a diesel auto are different. Does anybody know if that is true?