Thread: Defender R380 woes.

Hi let's hope it's not terminal. First check through the shifter linkage. Remove tunnel cover. Remove gear lever turret (4 m8 screws) . Check the forward yoke is still firmly attached to the rod. If it is them move to the back of the gear shift assembly . Remove the 4 M8 bolts and lift off the top assembly. Check the yoke in the top assembly then the fork/yoke ion the end of the selector rail. If the yokes are all secure the fault lies in the box. Good luck. Ian Ashcroft

As Ian has mentioned, I have also seen this sort of thing with the Defender R380 many times where the grub screw holding the shifter yoke to the shift rod in the top of the trans has come loose...You can access it to tighten it using a long allen key through the reverse lamp switch hole, or with a short one from above, use loctite too on the thread... I have a Disco R380 in here today with the shifter extra sloppy, turns out the ball at the base of the shifter stick pin is missing...


JC

It could also just be the plastic bush the selector ball sits in has disintegrated as they do eventually wear away or even a broken bias spring.
As already said hopefully not in the box...

Edited.
Have a look at this

http://www.landroverexpedition.com/t...in-the-coffin/

I had exactly the same sort of problems and it was just the plastic bush that Harro mentioned. Easy enough to get to and change. I couldn't find it as a separate spare part in Australia as they wanted me to spend lots of money. I just got it out of the UK

Same here as Harro. The part is called railko bush. I posted a few years ago about my problems. They seem exacytly the same couldn't get any gears managed to somehow get 1st gear and got home that way.While your at it check your gearstick as I found with the disco the bias spring will wear a groove into the side of the stick when in 5th gear.
Cheers
Luke