v8bertha Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Finally got around to doing a couple more odd jobs on the camel tonight One of them jobs was changing the gearbox oils. Having drained the oil from the main gearbox, I noticed something stickin' out of the drain hole... Any body any idea what this is, or what it was, and if it's likely to make my gearbox go "BANG!!!" anytime soon? Its an R380 box. Cheers Dan B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_a Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 not sure, it looks familiar though, almost like i have seen one very recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffbeaumont Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 That looks familiar I pulled similar bits out my discoverys gearbox the first time I serviced it. The diagnosis was that it's part of the spring from one of the synchromesh baulk rings. I already knew mine had problems with the baulk ring on third (along with the other curse of early R380s, a worn main shaft). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 <groan> ...thanks all, I'll pass it on to Dan. At the moment we have: 1 Series, currently a bulkhead and a chassis 1 Rangie, currently being rebuilt 1 Mini Cooper, overheating no matter what we do... praying it's not a rebuild job 1 Camel, with interesting metal bits. I'm regretting selling my Scooby Drove the Camel to work today, drove the same as usual. I have occasionally had problems with 1st, but a good shove/putting it in 2nd then 1st seems to work ok... but then gearboxes are something I havn't learnt about yet, I see a lesson arriving in the near future. ...at least today is my last day at work until 2nd Jan B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Henson Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I'd say a Pine coffee table top really. The grain looks about right for Pine satin varnished furniture. Bit scraped though, does your missus know you abuse it like that? We could better see if there wasn't bits of damaged Land Rover all over it! Les. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v8bertha Posted December 13, 2006 Author Share Posted December 13, 2006 Hmmmm... so that may explain the crunching between 1st and 2nd So I presume it's just gonna be a case of wait for it to go "BANG!!" then, or will it continue to work ok for another 100k miles? Les, the coffee table had to have a space cleared specially to take the photos... did you notice the LR classic parts coaster?? Cheers for the replies, even if they are bad news D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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