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Yep as mentioned the Ashcroft kit is a modified coupling and Land Rover shaft. It's all speculation at the moment, so I guess I will have to wait and see come Friday. If it is so, It would be unusual for it to fail completely after just 6 months and 7,000km's of service.
It is always worth trying with the CDL engaged when something like this happens ;)
This will eliminate worn drive flange or worn or broken axle or ****ed diff :cool:
That was the first thing I tried when I was pulled over in the hard shoulder. ;)
I've had a diff let go many years ago in the 130, compared to that there was very little noise and absolutely no warning
No probs i just hope it is not a painful expensive experience for you :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by ozy013
No worries, thanks Chris, will have to wait and see.....if I had a choice it would go back to Les Richmond, but as they're still closed for holidays.....we all know how expensive dealers can be :eek::eek:.
I've just stumbled across this thread, and I feel for you. The exact same thing happened to me on Christmas Eve. No one is opened then until weeks after or no one wants to look at it.
I finally have someone looking at it but it makes it hard when it's your work truck and you're moving from Brisbane to Melbourne in two weeks.
Mine is a 109" SIII ute, with a Disco 1 R380 gearbox and original TC. It has a '94 V6 Triton engine.
I just wish I knew what was wrong. The worse thing is that mechanics buy parts and then you see the price afterwards and think I wish they had asked I could have got the same part for half or a third of the price.
I will be watching to see how you go. Thanks for the thread.
Nathan.
Ian I suppose the first thing is to find out what has failed ? If it is the replacement shaft is there any sort of warrantee from Les Richmond ? If you could keep us in the loop on what your problem is that would be good mate . I'm thinking of doing the same upgrade , my truck has only done 13,500 ks So good luck mate Lets hope you get it fixed up soon as , and are back on the road !!.. Jim
Thanks everyone for your support, last night I sent Ashcrofts a quick email, and got a reply from Dave straight away. I promised to keep him updated, I just asked if the part had a warranty, and it does.
As for warranty from Les Richmond, I'll have to wait till they reopen. It's also possible it could be the mainshaft in the gearbox. So the sooner Land Rover drop the box the better, as I hate speculating.
Lol!..Yes, I think she did! I don't go overboard, I don't use any "special" polish, just what I've got at the time, But I do take my time & of course it's a big help having a garage, to keep her out of the weather.Quote:
Originally Posted by ozy013
But seriously, that is not good, after just 7000ks. I'd say Ashcrofts (heard nothing but good about them) will be more interested than most, to see what has happened.....and it definitely shakes your "confidence" in the vehicle, particularly for mechanically hopeless people like me anyway.
I hope you're back on the road asap.
Pickles.
Quick update, well not really, I lost track of time at work today, delivering trucks to Albury, then messing around with wrong addresses for the pick up of several cars from Wodonga to return to Melbourne.
No message on my phone from MCLR, so I'll call tomorrow.