Thread: Before I drop the gearbox.....

Brett
Can you start the engine with foot of the clutch and the vehicle does not move forward or reverse? If yes then you don`t need to read any further. NO then maybe gearbox is in a gear and gear stick has got out the gate.
That problem can happen when the stick has been removed and replaced outside the gate. Give it a wriggle think its in neutral and go to start and away you go. Just my thoughts.
Cheers CO

Arrrgh! Landrovers, you gotta love them.

So whilst I have been waiting for my clutch kit to arrive, I have been getting ready to drop the gearbox - removed floor panels, cubby box, cables etc etc. Go to remove the exhaust bracket and see that it is so rusted there is no way I will be able to remove the bolts without an angle grinder - have tried soaking in CRC, freeze and release - the bolts will not budge. Not only that, but the joining flanges on the two pipes are rusted together also. As is the pipe to the bracket. So, to drop the gearbox I am probably - no, definitely- going to have to replace the exhaust as well, which I can't afford at this point in time.

Looks like it will be engine out instead. Does anyone have a dummies guide on removing the donk in a 300tdi with the aim of doing a clutch change. What do I have to remove, and what can I leave in place?

If the exhaust is that bad down there I hope you don't start breaking studs up at the turbo.

Nah the turbo to exhaust flange is all good, only replaced the turbo about 9 months ago, the rust doesn't really become an issue until the middle section of the exhaust.....thankfully. Still a pain tho.

Hi I don,t know if the clutch was working before you started fitting master cylinders hoses etc But years ago I had a problem similar to what you are haveing it turned out to be that the clutch plate had stuck to the flywheel through moisture in the bell housing by a bit of surface rust. Drive the landy to about a meter from a large tree push in the clutch and ram the tree. Shure beats pulling out motor or gearbox
Cheers

Brett,how far into it are you,I'd take up Eddy's offer,get a trailer and I'll tow it down there for you and we'll get stuck into it. Pat

Pat - cheers for the offer but I am almost there - all things being equal I should be able to pull the donk out tomorrow, and get a look at the clutch and see what is going on. Hopefully the Landrover gods will be smiling upon me and I will have the big girl up and running again soon.
Once again, thanks to yorself and Eddy for the offer of help, if I wasn't so far into it I would definitely take you up on it, but the end is in sight. I hope

Don't take it all they way out,just move it forward enough to get the clutch out,last time I did it pulling the rad gave me heaps of room. Pat