Thread: Transmission from Discovery to Defender?

Yep sure is, M R Automotive in Redcliffe have fitted the Disco2 auto into their fender 130 TD5 and it is suposed to be putting out 180KW, they use it to pull the race car around

No, it is not that simple. The R380 5spd in the disco is quite different to the defender one. In order to swap the two you will need to dismantle both, and fit the shift rods and shifter housing etc from the defender box to the disco one. The transfer cases are interchangeable, but fitting a disco case to the defender is like fitting 35" tyres. The high range ratio is about 20% taller, so will make starting off on hills very difficult. Will cruise nicely on the highway though...

JC

Originally Posted by MarknDeb

Yep sure is, M R Automotive in Redcliffe have fitted the Disco2 auto into their fender 130 TD5 and it is suposed to be putting out 180KW, they use it to pull the race car around

Dear P&J and sorry M&D to contradict your post but answer is ...."Yep sure not"....over and above JC's "the tassie devils always 6 star advice", the disco2 ZF is a electronic not a hydraulic box ...MR would have used a "$2K bits only" Compushift as the first workaround being that a fender 130 TD5 does not have a electronic gearbox ECU. Cheers

Originally Posted by cockie55

Dear P&J and sorry M&D to contradict your post but answer is ...."Yep sure not"....

UM sorry but did P&J not ask if it can be done and yes it can be done as to if it is an easy or dificult task and what else is needed i do not know but the "FACT" remains M R Automotive have done just this conversion

If its a manual to manual, as JC says there are a few things. Something else is that the front output flange on the transfer case is bigger on the D2, and will need to be swapped aswell.

Originally Posted by MarknDeb

Yep sure is, M R Automotive in Redcliffe have fitted the Disco2 auto into their fender 130 TD5 and it is suposed to be putting out 180KW, they use it to pull the race car around

They trying to copy me. but mine has the D1 so it is valve body controlled and has been substantialy beefed up to handle the power and weight.

Im backing justinc.


you can do it but you need both boxes....

you take the selector mech from the deefer box, install that in the disco box and fit it up...

if you want your deefer faster but not as trucklike when towing you leave the tcase if you wish to maintain the existing characteristics you swap the tcase.

Originally Posted by MarknDeb

UM sorry but did P&J not ask if it can be done and yes it can be done as to if it is an easy or dificult task and what else is needed i do not know but the "FACT" remains M R Automotive have done just this conversion

I am sorry ....over my too quick post (maybe I should ring up the phone nos of those premature message bill boards you see these days) as I just saw M&D easy peasy reference to a auto D2 box going into a defender and saw red and not the original post of manual to manual.

JC is on the money ....and M&D sorry ....but the D2 is a electronic ZF not a hydraulic box and that requires serious work around $ thrown at it like a $2K compushift to drive the gear box solonoids ....plus I think you will find MR used this as their workaround that you don't mention.

George 130 love to hear about your D1 hydraulic swap out experience