For an opposite experience. Truck came with a rear power take off. Truck
would not stay in 3rd gear. As soon as you backed off the throttle it would
pop out. Took off the Power take off and found the 'special nut' to be
finger tight. Installed the O/D but could find nothing except some mention
that no torque necessary on nut. So I reinstalled it finger tight. Still
had the same problem with popping out of gear. What was really interesting
that holding shifter in 3rd O/D on deceleration resulted in violent
vibration. When I say violent, I mean violent, eyes out of focus, fillings
falling out, bucking, trying to tear itself out of the truck, vibration.
Tightened up the nut a bit and vibration was dramatically lessened though it
would still pop out of gear. Never put a great deal of torque on the nut as
its no fun to get at without the the special socket. Pulled transmission
long before this list and finding out you need to torque the nut to 100 foot
pounds. Trans will be going in the 88 so will have an opportunity to see if
tightening the 'special nut' to proper torque cures the problem.
BTW, Transmission only had 30,000 miles on it.
Aloha
Peter Ogilvie
Kona Coffee Rover
1970 88 soft top, 'huli' Mine since '84 but recovering
from exposure of the dark side.
1966 109 pickup 'slime' In my garage since '90, finally up and running
12/00.
1965 88 parts car, slowly sinking into the lava.
196? 88 hard top, possibly 'phoenix' if it rises, it will
certainly be from ashes or at least a pile of rust
>From: "Faure, Marin" <Marin.Faure@PSS.Boeing.com>
>What's with this "special tool?" I installed a Fairey overdrive on my
>SIII back in 1973 or 4, and didn't have or need any special tools at all.
>I used a basic socket set and a wrench set to remove the rear PTO cover,
>take the nut off to remove the output gear and install the nut that holds
>on the overdrive's special input gear. I don't recall anything anywhere
>about torque settings, nor did I have any trouble removing or installing
>anything with the tools I had. One-hundred-thousand-plus trouble-free
>miles later, after I'd let the overdrive run too low on oil too many times,
>the thing broke (totally my fault). I removed the overdrive and
>re-installed
>the original output gear and PTO cover with the basic tools I had in my
>toolbox while lying underneath the thing in the parking lot. So I'm
>curious
>why all of a sudden it's become necessary to have some sort of "special
>tool" to take the back end off the transmission and install or de-install
>the output gear? It was a no-brainer in 1973; why has it become something
>different today?
>___________________________
>C. Marin Faure
> (original owner)
> 1973 Land Rover Series III-88
> 1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
> Seattle
_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Tue Apr 17 2001 - 17:30:07 EDT