Thread: OUCH I broke something

At least it would have electric windows, power steering, aircon, airbags, more than a 1 speaker stereo ?!?

My little car has none of those things ... imagine how nice it is to get into my disco from that little old thing ... mmm ... like vinegar and fine wine ...

To put a certain spin on your event, I know how you'll feel when you put your butt back into the Disco seat (including that lingering sense of trepidation after a repair that will last for a few days then fade to be no big deal in the face of the king of cars) ... hope they work it out promptly !

Originally Posted by Rich84

Our Magna Steyr transfer cases are basically an open diff with an electronically operated clutch pack to offer various levels of diff locking. I wonder if, when your car's system worked out something had gone quite wrong, it disengaged the transfer case control unit so that it didn't attempt to lock the diff and inevitably cause more damage?

The lock clutch is normally disengaged but if wheel-slip is detected as allowed to varying degrees according to the TR setting, the clutch will engage. In rock crawl the clutch is pre-loaded as soon as the vehicle starts to move but in other modes the front or rear wheels have to start to spin compared with the other wheels as detected by ABS so the lock clutch would not engage.

That's bad luck Mark. Hope it all gets sorted out properly and quickly.

Interested to know, if it was the rear drive shaft, I would have expected that there would be some visual evidence when looking on the car, could you see anything? I also expect that there would be quite a racket from under the car if that was the case(broken shaft belting about the place) when any drive was put through.

Do you think it was more likely an axle - like what happened to Baz? His snapped right next to the CV.

No loud clanging and banging... nothing hanging down from the car, so yes.. I suspect they mean an axle rather than the drive shaft to the rear diff.

But the words used today were "broken a rear drive shaft"

I am sure tomorrow will enlighten me more.

Originally Posted by Bytemrk

No loud clanging and banging... nothing hanging down from the car, so yes.. I suspect they mean an axle rather than the drive shaft to the rear diff.

But the words used today were "broken a rear drive shaft"

I am sure tomorrow will enlighten me more.

Some do refer to the axle as a drive shaft, so it may well be an axle, but it's the dropping in and out of gear that is strange, although maybe the drive shaft was moving in and out of the gearbox, or even the axle was moving in and out of the hub/CV or diff, did it drop into neutral when you backed off and did the lever move when it happened??

Originally Posted by Redback

Some do refer to the axle as a drive shaft, so it may well be an axle, but it's the dropping in and out of gear that is strange, although maybe the drive shaft was moving in and out of the gearbox, or even the axle was moving in and out of the hub/CV or diff, did it drop into neutral when you backed off and did the lever move when it happened??

No movement of lever and the dash still displayed drive, so as I mentioned in the previous thread it behaved like it was dropping into neutral and back.. no drive.. engine revving etc. but it is possible that you are right and none of the issue was transmission related at all.

I still struggle to understand how i could drive it from 4 days without incident still.

I'll update you all later today.

Originally Posted by Redback

Some do refer to the axle as a drive shaft, so it may well be an axle, but it's the dropping in and out of gear that is strange, although maybe the drive shaft was moving in and out of the gearbox, or even the axle was moving in and out of the hub/CV or diff, did it drop into neutral when you backed off and did the lever move when it happened??

In my spannering days the big piece of hollow pipe that went from the gearbox to the diff was known as a tailshaft. The two solid pieces of steel that run from the diff to the wheels was called an axle.

If these terms were still used there would not be confusion.

Interested to see what the results of your long conversation are Mark, fingers crossed it's all sorted for you
I'd be wanting something in writing myself...