Thread: Td6 gearbox question

I guys,

I have had my 2004 range now for about a year and put 12000 km on it no problems. As luck would have it, we are currently touring Tassie and so far the car is going well. However, last night when descending slowly down a hill, I noticed that when I depressed the accelerator, the engine revved but no speed. It felt like the box was in neutral.

After 5-10 seconds, I regained the ability to drive and all was good. There was no clunk and there are no warnings on the dash at all. This is the first strange gearbox related issue I have had to date. The car has just clocked 140,000km.

We still have 2 weeks of touring left. Tassie is small which is good but we are pulling a camper and still need to get back to Coffs Harbour.

Reading the forum posts, it seems that the issue is pressure related on the torque converter lockup plate. My question is, am I better off driving around in sports mode until I get home. Does this stop the lockup clutch from engaging and will it in any way prevent the box blowing as quickly.

This is the only misstep the box has made but reading others stories and given the km, I am not hopeful that it has long to go!

Cheers, Brad.

Originally Posted by careyba

I guys,

I have had my 2004 range now for about a year and put 12000 km on it no problems. As luck would have it, we are currently touring Tassie and so far the car is going well. However, last night when descending slowly down a hill, I noticed that when I depressed the accelerator, the engine revved but no speed. It felt like the box was in neutral.

After 5-10 seconds, I regained the ability to drive and all was good. There was no clunk and there are no warnings on the dash at all. This is the first strange gearbox related issue I have had to date. The car has just clocked 140,000km.

We still have 2 weeks of touring left. Tassie is small which is good but we are pulling a camper and still need to get back to Coffs Harbour.

Reading the forum posts, it seems that the issue is pressure related on the torque converter lockup plate. My question is, am I better off driving around in sports mode until I get home. Does this stop the lockup clutch from engaging and will it in any way prevent the box blowing as quickly.

This is the only misstep the box has made but reading others stories and given the km, I am not hopeful that it has long to go!

Cheers, Brad.

Light acceleration while traveling down a hill and hearing nothing but revs sounds like normal automatic gearbox operation to me. My assumption is that the box has probably selected 2nd or 3rd (Depends on speed) and the lockup clutch hasn't engages to allow for an compression braking free roll down the hill. The revving would just be the engine trying to catch up to the gear speed.

Again just my understanding on how the automatics work. Could be stuffed hahaha, but we hope not