LT85 build date?

LEGS rebuilt mine (Landrover Engine and Gearbox Specialists),

Steve

Hi Steve,

Good idea, I'll give legs a call. The reason (which I should have said in the original post) is that I bought a 1986 110 about 5 years ago which was then owned by an old lady who had it from new. It had only

So the very suspicious part of me wonders if some underhand garage swapped the original gbox for a much older one during a service or something, hence I was trying to find out if I could get the history of the box I took out. I am not really bothered, and can't do anything about it, I'm just interested, and it would also explain the sate of the box after only 40k miles to date.

Cheers, Andrew

You've only just got suspicious even though they used the oldest used car sales pitch in the book?, let me guess, she only used it to go to church 8-).

Greg

Well yes, there is that! :-)

I bought it from her son who was selling after her death. But I have seen all the paperwork (and still got some of it) including original invoice when it was new etc etc.... and yes she only used it to go to the village in darkest perthshire. It also needed a new cam, but the body work and interior was spotless and unmarked (not so anymore!), the chassis has only the lightest of surface rust, it spent all its life in a dry warm garage.

Andrew

Specialists),

Well, don't throw the old box away, the only thing that seems to go wrong with them is the front layshaft bearing gets noisy, you'll probably find that's all it will cost in parts, about a tenner and not much of a job to fit.

Martin

and certain things that I found

Got bearing noise in 5th only on mine. Is it likely to be this front layshaft bearing and is it really that easy to replace?

Gerald

"Idris" wrote............

Not hard, just a bit fiddly IIRC but it's a long time since I've been inside one of those. Layshaft bearings should be quite noisy in all except 4th which is usually the front only as the rear is quite a substantial double row bearing so I think you may have to go in and check the rear of both shafts etc. for something else.

Martin