advice on my range rover locking up while driving

[gpclassic300tdi]

my jeep has just locked up while driving down my lane now it will only go backwards and not fowards... and on locking up it has snapped my prop of rear axel if i try to go fowards front end dips any ideas asap please

 

[Dopey]

my jeep has just locked up while driving down my lane now it will only go backwards and not fowards... and on locking up it has snapped my prop of rear axel if i try to go fowards front end dips any ideas asap please

This is a Land rover forum, why don't you go to a Jeep site and ask?? gearbox??

 

[Dr_evil]

my jeep has just locked up while driving down my lane now it will only go backwards and not fowards... and on locking up it has snapped my prop of rear axel if i try to go fowards front end dips any ideas asap please

 

[Dopey]

Fubar

 

[gpclassic300tdi]

thanks for your your help what a waste of space

 

[dogsbody]

my jeep has just locked up while driving down my lane now it will only go backwards and not fowards... and on locking up it has snapped my prop of rear axel if i try to go fowards front end dips any ideas asap please

Well what did you expect calling a Range Rover a Jeep!
You'll need a thicker skin if you're going to survive on here.

As you're in a Range Rover forum I'll assume that it is a Range Rover. Which model, age and engine might help.
Mind you, whichever it is it sounds expensive.

 

[Datatek]

If the prop is digging in the ground I'm not surprised it won't go forwards. The UJ's must have been knocking for ages, props don't just snap.

 

[DiscoPol]

thanks for your your help what a waste of space

dont let the door smack you on the arse on the way out, tosser:doh:

 

[Saint.V8]

In order to have snapped your prop shaft, it sounds like you have transmission wind up real bad caused by a seized centre differential not allowing the front and rear props from turning at different speeds....

The centre diff should only be locked on the slippy stuff and never on metalled, tarmaced roads...

The P38's have a VCU which does this all automatically (aslong as it hasn't seized-!!) the Classics (until the very later ones) and early to late '90's Discos had manual Centre Diff Locking on the short stubby lever that at times wouldn't unlock when put back to unlocked position....this would be indicated by a warning light on the dash or in the earlier models a warning light on the centre transmission tunnel near the Ratio Lever...

As Datatek says, if it has snapped and you havn't removed it, it could be digging into the ground halting movement, although will bounce along the ground in reverse...!!

Also on the subject of calling a Range Rover a Jeep...please don't, most of us will accept 'Truck' 'Bus' or 'Annoying heap of rust that keeps breaking down' but never insult on of the Worlds greatest vehicles (one whos heritage spans 60+ years - and is the only vehicle to feature on the front cover of Vogue, has been exhibited in an the Louvre Art Gallery, and was the first - and I think only - vehicle to cross the Darien Gap) as a Jeep or an SUV.....

 

[SpudH]

There's a clue in his name, 300tdi Classic.

Which if I'm reading between the lines correctly means:

1 it has a centre viscous coupling
2 which is most likely seized.
3 If the prop is bust right off and the front dips then the back is still grabbing so either as Data point out, your prop is caught in the ground or your back axle is locked up solid. Either way you need more help than you're gong to get here.

If the drive pinion bearing has failed in the back axle it may allow movement in one direction but not the other.



BTW Some peeps on here take offence to their beloved sacred rangie being called a lowly jeep. They'd probaly get just as pee'd off if you called their doyen of british design the Dyson a lowly hoover.

So just ignore them, the fact that their boffins of high intellect at BMC didn't invent 4x4 for the masses, merely copying others obviously still grates.

Having said that there were old British manufacturers playing with 4x4 not long after the Model T made it across the pond. IIRC someone like Muir Hill or Bamford was making 4x4 light trucks back in the 1920's.

 

[fett]

jeeps probably better :behindsofa::hysterically_laughi

 

[elsie]

Jeep's , my fat hairy arse . :wtf: jeep's is wot merican's ride in , Land rover's are what gentlemen and explorer's drive , there's a differance , jeep . ha

 

[fett]

both winters when my ex range rover was broke next doors cherokee with lpg was workin fine and he doesnt know one end of a spanner to the other!

 

[Dopey]

Yea? well my 1958 Series II never complains about winters and snow, bring it on she says.... are you trying to convince me a jeep is better? cuz that just wont happen

 

[fett]

nope , i dont give a **** what u think

 

[Dopey]

Good,

 

[fett]

:hysterically_laughi