Things that have gone wrong with your Land Rover

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Piersman2 said:

Ayahuasca said:

Piersman2 said:

A new one I've not heard of before.... which left me stranded 10 days ago.

2010 FFRR 5.0 S/C - borked transfer box, and smoothed worn output spline shaft from gearbox.

Refurbed transfer box, rebuilt gearbox, labour and various fluids, etc... £4k bill.

Wow. Did the damaged transfer box cause the spine to wear?

I don't believe so, not by the looks of the gearbox shaft splines, they just look to have worn away. Apparently this joint is not greased in factory.

I instantaneously lost drive pulling away from stop about 10 days ago with unpleasnt gear mashing noises if trying to drive. Recon transfer box required, mine was all bust up. It was when they took off old transfer box they saw the lack of splines on the gearbox shaft, it was almost smooth at the end. They sent the gearbox away for a rebuild to get a new output shaft fitted. My garage always grease this joint when assembling to prevent the spline wear.

Classic transfer box input gear spline failure due to the gear not being cross drilled, for lubrication. Land Rover addressed this in about 2000, 20 years or so after many failures. I didn't think any non-drilled input gears were still alive tbf. Ops just realised this post is ancient lol

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Found the cause of the clunk and wobble between 40 & 50mph, dead UJ. Bought two to do both ends for good measure, £75 posted for HD type. Just need to buy a vice now to fit them