LT77 broken bit

Aug 07, 2003 5 Replies
R

In replacing the gearbox oil in a Defender I recently purchased (and which drives and shifts very well), I found a broken e-clip (c-shaped small clip) in the screen filter on top of the drain plug. From what I can see on LT77 diagrams, there are a few of these e-clips located in the gearbox.



Question: do I need to worry about this missing e-clip? As I said, the gearbox shifts well, no noises, no jumping out of gears, etc. The oil looked very old in the gearbox (77,000 kms) so it had not been changed in a long time, if ever. I'd rather not have to pull it out and take it apart to find where the e-clip is missing, but then again, I don't want to face sudden gearbox failure on a trip somewhere...



Thank you for your thoughts.


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S

No. You should be more worried about why your Landrover doesn't appear to have a Landrover gearbox in it! :-)

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M

Yes the LT77 is the older gearbox for Landrover!!!

Cant say whether or not you should strip and locate the circlip... totally up to you.

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R

Robert, Hi, There are two C clips in a LT77 box, one on the fulcram lever for the reverse gear, it has a C clip on one side of the pin, the other larger C clip is on the selector shaft inside the aluminium gear box extention, which can be seen if you take the gear change mechanism of the box. The reverse one require a strip down. Rotty

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R

Thanks Rotty, that's the kind of info I was looking for. The e-clip that broke and fell out looks like it was around 3/4" across, so I imagine it may have been the smaller one (on the reverse). Now and then, I have to fish a bit with the stickshift to find reverse, so that may be a result of that clip missing. If it's no more than that, I can live with it (unless some day I find myself not able to get into reverse at all!). As I said, everything else works great with the gearbox. Regards, Robert.

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