1. Increase the idling rpm either by screwing up the stop or less permanently by fitting a hand throttle.

2. Avoid idling for prolonged periods - especially warming the engine (unnecessary and detrimental to the engine anyway)

3. Avoid where possible using the engines excellent lugging ability.

John

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JDNSW
1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol

What about idling over ruff stuff? or just walking the county down a track at slow speed?

We in the "isuzu gearbox club" seem to have more spare time than those with isuzu engines and landrover gearboxes.
We are accepting of new members and can even provide the information needed to become a new members.

1. Set the idling speed a bit faster than specified

2. Avoid long periods of idling - switch off.

3. Avoid pulling at low rpm, even though the engine revels in it. Just use this ability when you really have to.

John

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JDNSW
1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol

I think Dougal I want to join this band of merry men with their Isuzu boxes. In a previous thread I initiated you had said you would be able to draw up the adaptor plate for the tranfer case, so wondering how is that going? I am having no luck with finding a LT85 bell housing to adapt up my late model R380 and for the money its going to cost the isuzu box is going to be on a par if no cheaper to drop in.
Kindest regards
Garry

The plate adapter is old news, but the new fabrication keeps getting put back to the "not urgent and not paying" pile.
It's the gear linkage which can cause the most headaches depending on how much room you have between the gearbox body and your transmission tunnel.

So is your isuzu box in a defender, disco or range rover, I have a defender so is there more room in the gearbox turrent to play with regards to adapting the gear change or is a bit of fabrication and cutting required to the turrent in order to make it happen.
As far as the non paying pile goes could I possibly temp you to charge us to make one up and then it could go into your paying pile and I get to adapt a isuzu box andd you an imcome derived job.
Kindest regards
Garry

Mine is in an 85 rangie with no body lift. So the gearlever is the same long-stick position as the defenders.
Thanks for the offer to speed things along, but I've got such a pile to get through I don't think it'll be able to help.

If you can get the tail end of an LT77 gearbox, then I can flick you drawings for the current setup. It's far from ideal but it is proven to work (approx 230,000km and counting).