Hi all,
Found the following on another unrelated ng and wondered if anybody had tried or heard of similar??
Thought a recent experience of mine may help others.
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> The gears got very hard to engage on my Discovery, and eventually it jammed
> in second. The old girl has done 125000 miles, hard ones at that as she
> has been on farms all her life, so I thought it was time for an exchange
> gearbox. Before committing myself I thought that it would lose nothing to
> have a little dig below the gear lever.
> After removing the centre console we drilled out the dozen or so pop rivets,
> and found that there is a flat plate with a curled up lip at one end, that
> holds the springs apart on the selector mechanism. The lip on this plate
> was broken off. We replaced this plate, (cost about £3.50), and found that
> this almost cured the problem. However the gear selection still wasn't
> brilliant, so we dug a bit further and removed the gear lever. Here we
> found that the nylon bush that the gear lever swivelled on had broken up.
> We replaced this bush, (£1.50 I think), and now the gears are as tight as > new.
> The frightening thing was that our dealer checked his computer and said that
> this was the first bush that he had sold. It has to be asked how many
> people have been stung £1500 to have a new gearbox fitted, when a fiver and
> a couple of hours tinkering would have solved the problem.
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