Thread: TD5 Defender - Gearbox chatter

Originally Posted by PAT303

Redline MTL is what I replaced ATF in mine with. Pat

Good choice in +40degrees Pat.

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It's been a while since I was over in Kal, In fact my kids have never been there. That dry 'off the desert' wind is something to experience...

Trying to get to Albany early next year, might even do a loop through your neck of the woods and through Perth and down for a change, would like to catch up if your about March/ April?
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JC

Originally Posted by justinc

Good choice in +40degrees Pat.

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JC

I still found the shifting became notchy and the box rattly at those temps with MTL, so I ended up with a MTL/MT90 brew which was a bit better.
The real fix is an oil cooler on Tdi's. Still haven't installed mine.

Originally Posted by rick130

I still found the shifting became notchy and the box rattly at those temps with MTL, so I ended up with a MTL/MT90 brew which was a bit better.
The real fix is an oil cooler on Tdi's. Still haven't installed mine.

Also, there seems to be a huge variation in shift quality between VEHICLES.
I have a huge number of vehicles with these gearboxes to work on and some are just better than others
There is only a handful out of all these that IMO have faultless shift quality. Most have some kind of little or even glaring faults, some owners putting up with it and some requiring a few different oil types/ viscosities until I find a satisfactory solution.
This is coming from someone who drives an LT95 behind a 4BD1

...couldn't get much more agricultural than that

JC

God, the number of oils/viscosities I've tried and still trialling .......

Mmm.. so I'm not the only one having troubles. My 2003 TD5 has been slightly difficult to get into 2nd from 1st, and into 4th from 5th.

Just bought some Penrite "Manual gear oil 75" which lists my car on the pack. It's a "synthetic fortified SAE 75w-80" .. so we'll see whether it makes a difference or whether damage from wrong oil (previous owner) has already been done.

Originally Posted by Perusalstein

Mmm.. so I'm not the only one having troubles. My 2003 TD5 has been slightly difficult to get into 2nd from 1st, and into 4th from 5th.

Just bought some Penrite "Manual gear oil 75" which lists my car on the pack. It's a "synthetic fortified SAE 75w-80" .. so we'll see whether it makes a difference or whether damage from wrong oil (previous owner) has already been done.

Have you loosened the Bias springs on the gear stick and tried the gear changes?
A little tweak there can sometimes help. it might just need a smidgen to get it right then tighten the nut up again

Originally Posted by justinc

This is coming from someone who drives an LT95 behind a 4BD1

...couldn't get much more agricultural than that

JC

Series Diesel, Nonsyncro IIA box.

cmon you can do better than that.

merry xmas.

Originally Posted by Perusalstein

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so we'll see whether it makes a difference or whether damage from wrong oil (previous owner) has already been done.

Any idea what was in there ?

My 'go to' oil in a R380 is Castrol Syntrans, it seems to work well in the majority of them, although sometimes you'll get one that can be a little particular, as JC said above.