Thread: 130 Td5 gear box locked

Hopefully someone that is a bit more experienced will come along soon but I'd say that your selector mechanism has developed some slop in it such that you have been able to select two gears at the same time. I'd pull the covers of around the gear stick and check out the area on top of the box associated with the gear selector for lose fastners.

At this stage this would not be a costly problem.

The oil leaks I don't think will be anything major either and could be also related to a lose cover or might just be your vehicle marking it's territory.

Good luck and hope an experienced spanner comes along soon.

a detent spring or pin has gone and allowed it to select 2 gears at once.

you should be able to free it up by pulling the floor coverings then the selector and working out which ones are woogie then putting it back to rights.

Originally Posted by phuse

hi
it was a hot day doing 100km carring about ton in my 130 1999 TD5 240,000 km and gear box locked up even in neutral you let the clutch out the engine stalls and also when the tranfer in neutral as well the wheel are free and around the gear box a lot of oil
does any body know how bad this??

Philip

Trans has possibly run out of oil, and siezed a gear to the mainshaft. I would suspect one or both of the cooler lines, seen this happen before...

JC

Originally Posted by justinc

Trans has possibly run out of oil, and siezed a gear to the mainshaft. I would suspect one or both of the cooler lines, seen this happen before...

JC

Yeah, from rubbing together. I was getting a vibrating/low RPM rumble from under my Disco and it turned out to be the cooler lines on the manual rubbing together. Gently bent them to stop rubbing and no more noise.
Regards
Robbo

Sounds like you need to check to see where your oil leak is coming from before you start looking into the selector mechanism.

Does the selector feel like it is going into the various gates?

my bad missed the 100kph part....

locked gear to output shaft. filling the box with diesel letting it sit for 24 hours then abusing it MIGHT free it up but its not going to last long after that.

Originally Posted by slug_burner

Hopefully someone that is a bit more experienced will come along soon but I'd say that your selector mechanism has developed some slop in it such that you have been able to select two gears at the same time. I'd pull the covers of around the gear stick and check out the area on top of the box associated with the gear selector for lose fastners.

At this stage this would not be a costly problem.

The oil leaks I don't think will be anything major either and could be also related to a lose cover or might just be your vehicle marking it's territory.

Good luck and hope an experienced spanner comes along soon.

The trouble is SlugB, that there are interlock plungers to prevent this happening via shifter, even if it is faulty. You have to physically remove them to allow the shift forks to go into the wrong place inside the box.

JC

hi
check oil level in gear box not a drop
and found lose oil cooling pipe nut
so exchange gear box now i think

philip