Thread: Oh What a Feeling!

Pfft! Do you think I believe that?

Post that on the Overlander forum and see if anyone else does.

Ron

I wouldn't get too cocky - my brand new disco crapped its clutch at 600km, again at 1500 and again at about 4000 - the vibration it caused resulted in a gearbox being rebuilt at 20,000. Fixed with a machined bell housing - at the time they were not available new through parts (my car was the first shipment with R380 gearboxes so parts had not been were not in stock) and the new car was going to have to be off the road for 6 weeks waiting for a new bell housing to be shipped from the UK.

The bell housing had not been cast correctly and everything was out of alignment causing the clutch not to sit flat on the flywheel - all the vibration caused the input shaft to the gearbox to shake wrecking the bearings - luckily the gearbox problem was identified and rebuilt before catastrophic failure.

So Landys do this sort of this too so I wouldn't poke the stick at the toyo people too much.

Gazzz

Originally Posted by garrycol

I wouldn't get too cocky - my brand new disco crapped its clutch at 600km, again at 1500 and again at about 4000 - the vibration it caused resulted in a gearbox being rebuilt at 20,000. Fixed with a machined bell housing - at the time they were not available new through parts (my car was the first shipment with R380 gearboxes so parts had not been were not in stock) and the new car was going to have to be off the road for 6 weeks waiting for a new bell housing to be shipped from the UK.

The bell housing had not been cast correctly and everything was out of alignment causing the clutch not to sit flat on the flywheel - all the vibration caused the input shaft to the gearbox to shake wrecking the bearings - luckily the gearbox problem was identified and rebuilt before catastrophic failure.

So Landys do this sort of this too so I wouldn't poke the stick at the toyo people too much.

Gazzz

Party pooper.

Originally Posted by garrycol

I wouldn't get too cocky - my brand new disco crapped its clutch at 600km, again at 1500 and again at about 4000 - the vibration it caused resulted in a gearbox being rebuilt at 20,000. Fixed with a machined bell housing - at the time they were not available new through parts (my car was the first shipment with R380 gearboxes so parts had not been were not in stock) and the new car was going to have to be off the road for 6 weeks waiting for a new bell housing to be shipped from the UK.

The bell housing had not been cast correctly and everything was out of alignment causing the clutch not to sit flat on the flywheel - all the vibration caused the input shaft to the gearbox to shake wrecking the bearings - luckily the gearbox problem was identified and rebuilt before catastrophic failure.

So Landys do this sort of this too so I wouldn't poke the stick at the toyo people too much.

Gazzz

Why not they did it first. Just goes to show though, toyo have thier own warranty probs, no such thing as perfection in car manufacturing. Matt

Originally Posted by garrycol

I wouldn't get too cocky - my brand new disco crapped its clutch at 600km, again at 1500 and again at about 4000 - the vibration it caused resulted in a gearbox being rebuilt at 20,000. Fixed with a machined bell housing - at the time they were not available new through parts (my car was the first shipment with R380 gearboxes so parts had not been were not in stock) and the new car was going to have to be off the road for 6 weeks waiting for a new bell housing to be shipped from the UK.

The bell housing had not been cast correctly and everything was out of alignment causing the clutch not to sit flat on the flywheel - all the vibration caused the input shaft to the gearbox to shake wrecking the bearings - luckily the gearbox problem was identified and rebuilt before catastrophic failure.

So Landys do this sort of this too so I wouldn't poke the stick at the toyo people too much.

Gazzz

Your just cranky cause you own a Freelander

maybe he wants one of these--

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

maybe he wants one of these--

If he stands up to pee, he wants a County-Isuzu.

Originally Posted by Redback

Your just cranky cause you own a Freelander

Consider yourself as having been told - I was cranky at the time cause I had a new car that about 3 days having taken delivery it was back in the dealers and then again and again until they sussed what was causing the problem. The gearbox actually got done twice cause when I went I wet to pick it up after the gearbox rebuild, there was big pool of ATF under it - they had squashed an oil seal when the box was being put back together - result the box was bak out again and diaasemblesd to fix the seal.

When all was fixed the car ran great from 94 until I sold it this year - regret selling now, if the lpg bonus was in then I wouldn't have sold it.

The Freelander is a great car for what it was designed for - a great town car but it is limited in its offroad options - but I am sure I could have got over your rocks at Appin if you were towing me - not!!

Gazzz