ATF in Transfer Box

[brad999]

Inherited a 1954 86" series 1 recently, and don't know an awful lot about it except it's been converted from a 2 litre petrol with crash box to a 3.5 RV8 with a borg warner (65, I think?) from a Daimler.
Went to change the transfer box oil this afternoon, opened up the level plug on the back of the box, and bright red fluid kept draining steadily from the level plug hole for at least 5 mins!? Gave up in the end and put the level plug back. Checked gearbox fluid, and it seams to have gone down a little, but haven't checked it in a while so...
Anyway, my question is, could the series transfer box be modified run on ATF fluid directly from the gearbox, or do I have a broken gearbox seal that's leaking into the transfer box?
Any help would be useful, although hopefully there's someone out there that's been through an automatic box conversion to a series landy.

Thanks

[budrover]

Normally it was the BW 66 jag gearbox which was attached to the series transfer box.

It was and still is a conversion used by Land Rover club racers for comp safari's .... attached to a V8 and in low ratio and 3.54 range rover diffs you got neck snapping acceleration and a top speed of 72mph.

The conversion was carried out by a guy called Pete Roberts.

Pete and his brother still race and are members of Staff & Shrops Land Rover Club and live around Stoke ...I saw his 5 ltr racer up for sale recently at an event so his contact details must be about somewhere on the internet.

We ran a similar set up many years ago but the 4.6ltr engine kept destroying the auto box so went for a R380 in the end.

Will ask about ...but cant see a series transfer box liking ATF ... I would drain it off and refill with gear oil... and then monitor the leakage

[brad999]

budrover said:

Normally it was the BW 66 jag gearbox which was attached to the series transfer box.

It was and still is a conversion used by Land Rover club racers for comp safari's .... attached to a V8 and in low ratio and 3.54 range rover diffs you got neck snapping acceleration and a top speed of 72mph.

The conversion was carried out by a guy called Pete Roberts.

Pete and his brother still race and are members of Staff & Shrops Land Rover Club and live around Stoke ...I saw his 5 ltr racer up for sale recently at an event so his contact details must be about somewhere on the internet.

We ran a similar set up many years ago but the 4.6ltr engine kept destroying the auto box so went for a R380 in the end.

Will ask about ...but cant see a series transfer box liking ATF ... I would drain it off and refill with gear oil... and then monitor the leakage

Thanks for the quick response, I've managed to dig out some of my fathers notes on the landy, and found he had noted the leak from the gearbox. It's definitely a BW65 (I'm informed they are almost the same box, except the 66 had heavy duty internals)



Shall drain off the transfer box and refill with EP 90 at the weekend, and see how it goes...

Don't know what to do about the ATF leak though, is the offending seal inside the adapter or the gearbox itself? Sounds like a pig to fix either way, but I shall try and get in contact with Pete Roberts.

Thanks again

[budrover]

His brother just built a new car with the help of Rakeway Engineering.

http://www.rakeway.co.uk/page2.html

They may be able to help ...and will know how to get in contact.


Just looked at there website and you may be in luck

http://www.rakeway.co.uk/page12.html

(go to bottom of page)

Obviously they know about this conversion.

As they say .... job done !!!!!

Edited by budrover on Tuesday 7th June 22:46