Thread: 300 ks on a dry gearbox

Whilst in the Army we had a mechanic refill about 10 of our Defenders with about a fifth of the amount of oil, about 200miles to Poland everyone of them lunched there gearboxes, all gears lost except for 4th (collapsed layshaft). How you got as far as you did with no oil is amazing, unfortunately your gearbox is going to be knackered, they get bloody hot and that's with oil in em

Originally Posted by nedflanders

Whilst in the Army we had a mechanic refill about 10 of our Defenders with about a fifth of the amount of oil, about 200miles to Poland everyone of them lunched there gearboxes, all gears lost except for 4th (collapsed layshaft). How you got as far as you did with no oil is amazing, unfortunately your gearbox is going to be knackered, they get bloody hot and that's with oil in em

Nah! All is fine. It was my wading plug.
I had an afternoon panic session for no reason.
All sorted with the forum & a phone call.
"Love yous all."

Glad all's well, the wading plug is the one place you don't want to see oil

FYI: (afaik) The hole you are concerned about has nothing to do with the gearbox, it drains the clutch. On a 300tdi there's two wading plugs: One at the bottom of the timing belt cover and one at the bottom of the clutch bell housing. You typically leave them open so that any leaking oil (it's a land rover, after all) and water can run out and not contaminate the clutch plate and timing belt. They are there if you go into deep muddy water so they can be plugged to avoid ingress of water and mud (LR recommend 0.5 metre but that is a very conservative figure).

Even it you leave the plug hole open in a deep water crossing, it shouldn't contaminate the clutch plates unless you change gear mid-stream.

Originally Posted by noogie

Happy to eat it!
Panic does crazy things to people.

Better call mechanic in morning and tell him to forget about message I left him.

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I suspect something a little stronger than "forget it mate" might be warranted if the original message was a bit forceful...............

Having been on the receiving end of a few rounds of similar abuse for non-errors, it is bit like being damned with faint praise when you get a "better forget my earlier message, no harm done" response afterwards.

Cheers,