1st gear where R is R380

defenderholty

defenderholty

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LR 90, 200tdi, ashcroft R380 with 6k miles since installed 'new' -went for a drive today and when I put it in 1st to pull out from stop, nothing happened. I thought I may have bumped the transfer shifter into neutral and I didn't. I played with the other gears and nothing. It would move in and out of gear spots with no resistance or bumping off gears or engagement until I tried reverse. Reverse is 1st gear. So I drove it home in 1st. It took a sec.
Anyone know what happened to my transmission with 6k miles on it since Ashcroft rebuilt it?
 
rocky

rocky

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Ok so you found first gear and drove it home. Proof that the clutch plate is good, that the inputs and outputs to/from box and t box are good.

i'm thinking pull the tunnel, to see if the mechanism is all there and nothing has "escaped" busted etc
 
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RDavisinVA

RDavisinVA

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There is a piece forget what it's called held on with a set screw.
If you remove the tunnel and cover you'll find it, be able to see where it originally was and screw it back in place after cleaning the set screw and threaded selector part and tightening it down with lock-tight.
Sorry my instructions are not more specific, but you'll be able to easily find it and fix it.
I haven't done one in 4 or 5 years so have forgotten a lot of the details.
 
defenderholty

defenderholty

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Thanks for the help. My shifter is doing the exact same thing as the shifter in the video. I didn't have time to pull the tunnel last night. I'll report back with results of my findings.
 
defenderholty

defenderholty

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That wasn't it. I pulled the shifter and everything underneath is where it should be. As I move the unit where the ball inserts, forward and backward I can feel it go into and come out of something in the transmission. When it goes into what I assume is a hole or tube, I feel the side to side and it feels normal. As I move the lever forward and aft, as I feel it pull out of whatever is on the other side, and is disconnected from the transmission and gears.
 

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RDavisinVA

RDavisinVA

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In post 3 what I attempted to describe rather poorly was the set screw part 5 in part 4 has come loose, so when you move the shift leaver part 4 just flops around instead of shifting gears.
Like mentioned in post 3, an easy fix.
 
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terryjm1

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Take a short video and post it if you can‘t figure it out. Can’t imagine it being anything other than what Robert is describing.
 
defenderholty

defenderholty

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RDavisinVA said:
In post 3 what I attempted to describe rather poorly was the set screw part 5 in part 4 has come loose, so when you move the shift leaver part 4 just flops around instead of shifting gears.
Like mentioned in post 3, an easy fix.
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Ha. It is at the other end of that rod. So, yeah not a difficult fix. The hardest part is trying to work around taking out the seat box. Robert is correct.
 
rocky

rocky

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The videos out there on the slick shifter modification are great for understanding the turret's set up.
 
defenderholty

defenderholty

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rocky said:
The videos out there on the slick shifter modification are great for understanding the turret's set up.
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Well, I guess I need a video. I put it all back together today and my gears arent where they are supposed to be. Everything feels right and I got the part in the right place it just doesn't do what it is supposed to. That and in a completely unrelated discovery, my transfer case is apparently geared backwards. High range is forward and low is backwards. I thought this was odd from the beginning but it works this way. Am I weird on this or does anyone else have a transfer box where low is back and high is forward?
 
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