Thread: need zf advice

wellh told me to leave it to coll down and than the valve body should open up just took her for a drive than and there is no gettin out of second gear what should i do does this sound right, can a valve body be replaced, if it needs to go back to maitland is it up to me or him to get the car there as it will need to be towed and its a fair hike

Sounds like governor issues still, if it stays in 1st gear. Was the governor ITSELF replaced? The support will wear out for sure, but the governor as an assembly needs careful attention.


Valve body is a possibility, and is easy to replace with the box in the vehicle but I'm still leaning toward governor at this point.

JC

Originally Posted by justinc

Sounds like governor issues still, if it stays in 1st gear. Was the governor ITSELF replaced? The support will wear out for sure, but the governor as an assembly needs careful attention.


Valve body is a possibility, and is easy to replace with the box in the vehicle but I'm still leaning toward governor at this point.

JC

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as far as govenor being replaced im pretty sure he said he put a heavy duty one in and on the invoice it says grs kit at $168 thats not the support as it is listed further down, ive been thinking about it all night and being low on fluid was always on the back of my mind but i thought cant be possible its just been rebuilt anyway that bit of doubt made me check it and sure enough there was ony just a bit on the bottom of the dipstick so i filled her up but still no second gear any other ideas thanks for the feedback i really appreciate it im pretty stressed about it

well things are only getting better just went to give her anather go and back to the old tricks of not going onto gear after a few revs she threw into reverse $2200 and it still wont get out of first full stop and still dont go into gear sometimes


just took her for anather run and she went into gear but was no getting out of first, on a downhill run she would go into second at about 50 and stay in that till i stopped

she has noe drive at all anymore dead as a door nail, is that something that i should expect after a full rebuild when he said he replaced everything, also i asked him to keep any parts he replaced and i never got any of them should i be sus or is it just that im in a bad mood, also should he be the one to arange to get it back to the workshop or is that up to me, would he have reciepts showing the parts he bought

a mate of mine is a transbuilder, he did a td5 zf, it was doing the same thing, had the box in and out looking for something he missed, ended up being a cracked valvebody, got one from Manuels the next day and all was good
Get your builder to get the vehicle picked up and stop driving it until its fixed, good thing its under warranty though

Originally Posted by Vern

a mate of mine is a transbuilder, he did a td5 zf, it was doing the same thing, had the box in and out looking for something he missed, ended up being a cracked valvebody, got one from Manuels the next day and all was good
Get your builder to get the vehicle picked up and stop driving it until its fixed, good thing its under warranty though

yea he can organise to get it back to him, i cant drive it as it wont even go into gear full stop anymore, and he told me that the valve body cant be replaced but someone else said it can be done without even removing the box from the car

picked it up the sarvo aparently i gave it to much right boot and made the kick down cable come loose