Thread: Defender Failed To Proceed

Well our camping trip is over before it began. The Defender had to be flat topped home. Only got about 20kms down the road and lost all drive. No bang just a bit of a whirring noise and smell of burning oil. This was at 100kmph.
About to start investigating but would appreciate some assistance fault finding.
Engine cut out, but when I stopped restarted fine. No drive in any gear even with centre diff locked. Clutch feels ok, gears feel like they are engaging ok on the gearbox and trans case. In gear can only roll the car with clutch in, even in neutral. Tailshafts and unis are still in tact, No oil rupture.
About to start investigating by dropping the oils to check for metal.

Yep R380. Would not drive in any gear to start with, but had the van on so would not pull away in 4th anyway. When we pulled the trans cover off and played with the selector ring we could then get 4th gear. Gearbox gonna have to come out. Looking at Ashcrofts last night looks around $2200 for a box delivered without exchange and hd bearings, so may go down that path, waiting on some info from them. Looking around atm most in Australia want $2200-$2400 for standard recon plus exchange and freight so puts it up around $2600.
I suppose the big thing I need to watch is import duties on a complete box.
Have to look into do you pay import duty on the whole thing or just on the excess over $1000.
Cheers
Craig

Originally Posted by johntins

R380? Layshaft failure. It will still drive in 4th.



This is what ours looked like. Also at 100k. Hope yours isn't as bad. We replaced it with one from Ashcrofts, great price from them but the import costs were brutal, so have a good look if you choose that route, as I'm sure we could have avoided a lot of cost if we'd done our homework.