Thread: gearbox problems- advice please

Originally Posted by RobHay

If you still have the IIA box I would be slipping that back in........once you are absolutely certain that the engine is in alignment and is not going to flog your gear box to bits.

The IIA box is, in my opinion, by far the better,and stronger, box.(One of the best gear boxes ever built by Rover ...

Rob

I think you should clarify that statement a little the later gearboxes from suffix "D" were the best boxes in terms of reliability and ratios. The suffix "C" and earlier boxes still had a weakness in the layshaft.

The Series 3 layshaft is even better than the SIIA boxes because it is one piece with the big problem in the SIII box being the early cases which shot the reverse idler out the side of the box.

When it comes down to it the best box is the one that you have when its not jumping out of gear or breaking things.

Diana

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Rob

I think you should clarify that statement a little the later gearboxes from suffix "D" were the best boxes in terms of reliability and ratios. The suffix "C" and earlier boxes still had a weakness in the layshaft.

The Series 3 layshaft is even better than the SIIA boxes because it is one piece with the big problem in the SIII box being the early cases which shot the reverse idler out the side of the box.

When it comes down to it the best box is the one that you have when its not jumping out of gear or breaking things.

Diana

My experience is even the late S3 boxes are far more prone to jumping out of gear than any of the earlier boxes, and also more prone to shedding bits of synchros (helped by having more).

John

JD not debating you about the SIII jumping out of gear, although you must admit that the SIII layshaft makes it a stronger box and set up correctly doesn't jump out of gear.

Diana

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

JD not debating you about the SIII jumping out of gear, although you must admit that the SIII layshaft makes it a stronger box and set up correctly doesn't jump out of gear.

Diana

The S3 layshaft is, as you say, stronger - but then I've never busted a layshaft in any Landrover gearbox. But I have had Series 3s jump out of gear far more often than S1/2/2a. Set up correctly and treated with some semblance of respect, none of the Series gearboxes can be regarded as troublesome.

John

I hope you get it sorted.
I would like to see pictures of your Rover, and of the trip around Australia.
Best of British luck.

^^X2...

dont forget to drop in an itinerary you might be able to colocate and get a local BBQ going to meet some of the AULRO folk.