Thread: driving in 5th

This is crap, my friend. 5th is a very useful gear as you soon will notice. What is true, though, is that some early R380-boxes were lacking lubrication of teh output shaft splines which resulted in premature wear and consequently failure (been there, done that). Your 1995MY is one of those affected. As you have rebuilt your gear box (as I understand from your other thread) you will most likely have fitted the updated output gear, which has cross-drilled holes to enable adequate lubrication.

Even if you would not use 5th gear at all, you would still have the wear on the output shaft splines.

Are you sure this someone meant not to tow heavy loads in fith gear

this was a mechanics advice not sure about the new gearing due to the fact i was to nervous to play with it myself i sent it out to get fixed didnt know about the upgraded hopfully they do will be ringing tomorrow to ask. live and learn not many landy experts down here in tassie( sorry that i know of)

they didn't put it in the box for show.
use it or lose it.

Originally Posted by shad

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not many landy experts down here in tassie( sorry that i know of)

There's a really good one (so he keeps saying ) in Kingston.

Originally Posted by shad

not many landy experts down here in tassie( sorry that i know of)

Well yes, you do have one of the country's best independent LR specialists in Tassie and he hangs out in Kingston, just south of Hobart.

PM me if you want his contact details.

Ian

I've been driving and towing in 5th for 11 years and haven't had a problem,but cruisers and patrols,no I wouldn't recomend it. Pat