Thread: Rear diff mounts

Is you F1 a manual or auto? Is a side issue - If a manual, poor gear changing in lower gears means you need to look at your clutch, linkage etc at the slave cylinder end.

Irrespective of what gearbox diff mounts are not likely to cause the symptoms you describe - normally just banging at the rear so I would be looking for other reasons for the poor gear changing.

However to answer your diff mount question.

Rear diff mounts comprise three units - two at the rear on either side of the diff and one mount at the front - it is this front one that carries more weight than the others and chews out about every 80,000km. The rears last pretty well but is obviously worth while doing the lot at the same time.

It can be done at home (I have done mine twice) is a pain as there is not a lot of room and requires moving the diff around a bit to fit the mounts - however is doable if you are patient and doesn't require any specialist skill.

Garry

It is a auto

It still drives well & once going there is no problem. it happens in low gear when going slow, it feels like a small shunt from behind when changing gear? At times it does it, at other times its fine.

Landrover were adamant that it was not the trans???

They said the drive train mounts were broken & sagging & that was the problem?

The car is due for its 120k service, that & the quote for repair make it unfeasible to keep the car. I want to try fix the diff mounts myself.

Is it a good idea to find genuine parts? can you recommend somewhere?


Cheers

I'm guessing replacing trans mounts is a little harder than the diff?

Had these two issues with mine, I say two as both the gearbox (auto) and diff mount can make things go clunk.
I had a cold gearbox clunk on the 1st to 2nd gear shift, you could drive around it by appropriate throttle use for the first couple of kms.
However when the diff mount started to go it seemed like the gearbox was about to throw in the towel, changed the mount and back to an avoidable symptom.

Originally Posted by SuperMono

Had these two issues with mine, I say two as both the gearbox (auto) and diff mount can make things go clunk.
I had a cold gearbox clunk on the 1st to 2nd gear shift, you could drive around it by appropriate throttle use for the first couple of kms.
However when the diff mount started to go it seemed like the gearbox was about to throw in the towel, changed the mount and back to an avoidable symptom.

So all was well after changing the mount? I just got my new mount so should have it fixed soon. I am hoping all will be well then. Now that I understand the problem it makes sense, the trans still works perfectly, it just like a kick up the ass in low gear (sometimes).