Gear alignment

Hi, Just bought my first RR P38 and love it. It's the poor mans model 2.5 DT with a manual gearbox and very few cabin toys to go wrong. So far I'm loving it, except for the pain that I'm having with 3rd and sometimes 4th gear.

There's nothing wrong with the gears themselves, they're smooth and work just fine. It's finding them on a change down that's the pain. I'm used to 3rd and 4th lining up with the rest point in neutral, i.e: from neutral push up for 3rd and down for 4th.

On mine they are off to the right just a touch. This can make for frantic change down from 5th to 4th and more common 4th to 3rd as I try to push to the right just enough to catch where 3rd gear is.

Is this a common complaint? and is it as I'm hoping, something as simple as a lose linkage that's putting it out of alignment?

TIA

Nige

If it's the same box i'm thinking about. On top there is a plate fastened by four 8mm bolts. You need to slacken these and move plate over to line selectors up.

Wow! that was quick!

I'll see about getting the gaiter off this weekend and taking a look.

Thanks,

Nige

Hello
the fault was resolved?

R380 bias plate fractures and the spring breaks, both pretty common.

Parts on fleabay or the usual suspects.

Bias Plate: FRC9340, spring FTC4123 (2 required)

Peter

Thanks for the answer. The car I have I believe to be the same as the colleague "nigelmarsh" P38 1995 DT diesel manual. Did the part numbers you gave me serve in the R380 box? Thank you
Francisco Pastor

francisco pastor said:

Thanks for the answer. The car I have I believe to be the same as the colleague "nigelmarsh" P38 1995 DT diesel manual. Did the part numbers you gave me serve in the R380 box? Thank you
Francisco Pastor

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p38 doesnt use a bias plate it has two threaded hollow screw adjusters which have a spring and ball ,these fail and are not available from landrover as a separate part they only sell the whole top selector housing which is quite expensive , ashcroft transmissions did do their own replacement parts

Or the selector rod may have slacked off. You have to drop the rear of the gearbox to be able to access the remote gearchange.

NigelMarsh said:

Wow! that was quick!

I'll see about getting the gaiter off this weekend and taking a look.

Thanks,

Nige

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You won't see much taking the gaiter off, see post #8

Taking into account that there are no parts, it stays as it is! Many thanks to everyone from portugal
Francisco Pastor

On mine one of the spring had rusted and broken and the ball was falling out, I managed to get the part out from inside the car through the leaver hole and found a stainless spring the right size in my toolbox fitted that in cleaned up the ball refitted it then hammered the end in a bit to retain the ball and its still working ok several years down the line.