Broken gearbox?

[solarman216]

would you have a good front bumper support frame including the front wing supports, rusty but still strong will be fine, Rick

 

[Terranosaurus]

I once had a front diff go bang on me, that caused alarming bangs etc - with fixed hubs it would be causing all sorts of trouble, with autos I was able to back up, release them and drive home on it. - will try to find thread with it in if I can.

 

[96terrano]

So are you keeping the truck in one piece then?

 

[Terranosaurus]

I once had a front diff go bang on me, that caused alarming bangs etc - with fixed hubs it would be causing all sorts of trouble, with autos I was able to back up, release them and drive home on it. - will try to find thread with it in if I can.

Seems I never really wrote about it - just found reference in Mac Challenge thread to it needing changing ion a list of things to do in prep for it.

 

[melissachels]

Great result, but what alarms me is that the AA said the gearbox was broken, so who was the original owner?

I feel sorry for them, when the fix could have been really cheap, and we all know that front prop shafts are vulnerable on these vehicles with fixed front hubs, because they no longer fit the grease nipples.:doh

Rustic

pffft I had an AA guy argue with me for an hour over a fecked fuel pump :doh he was trying to tell me that it was the injectors & I was saying it was the in tank fuel pump on my 406....It was the flipping pump.... funny how a dunk with a hammer fixed things temporarily...for bout 5 mins..... Then was arguing with me over where the car was going as my tools were at home but the pump was in the shop...Shop won! It was the flipping pump & I even had to explain to him step by step how to fit the new one :doh was even worse cos I was a woman & that I was planning to fix it myself...guys jaw just bout hit the deck:lol

 

[bry]

Go and play with your gear knob...:augie

Now is the time to remove the rear prop shaft, or put the vehicle on 4 axle stands, and see what rotates when in 2 wheel drive, then 4 wheel drive.

My best guess...
Broken rear half shaft.

Now is the time to remove the rear prop shaft, or put the vehicle on 4 axle stands, and see what rotates when in 2 wheel drive, then 4 wheel drive.

Sounds a solid plan to me.

 

[rustic]

... :doh was even worse cos I was a woman & that I was planning to fix it myself...guys jaw just bout hit the deck:lol

When I was very young, still at school, my Mum was driving the 2 1/4 litre Petrol, series II Land Rover, it broke down, she got the tool box out, and was dismantling the carburettor down at the side of the road, an AA man was driving past, and offerered to help, and my mum said, no thank you, I'm just taking the carb off to clean a jet in the carburetor, to which his jaw dropped...

She cleaned it and reassembled it, and it started first time, the AA man just watched with amazement. In the 1960's is was unusual to see women driving cars, let alone messing under the bonnets of 4x4's

It appears that the attitude of some people hasn't changed in all that time.:doh

Rustic