oil leak from gearbox?

well there's another £400 'invested'
i bought a new filter and gasket so i know they are genuine so i will either give them to the company to fit or if i do it myself i know they are new and genuine.

i'm still not convinced that the vibration i get is TC as i dont get the rev counter needle bounce

i was following another thread on another forum, sorry, and there was few people on there with the identical problem as me and i followed it through for pages and then it just stopped, the last post was around march this year but nothing reached a conclusion as to how people solved it, a few had replaced the TC which didnt help, apart from bemble (rrphil) who did solve his problem with the torque converter and he provided some amazing contributions along the way

@saint, do the o rings for the cooler pipes come with them?

listed below if any body wants the part numbers and prices again with the filter and gasket. all from island 4x4, this brings me up to around the £1000 spent sisnce i bought this car a couple of months ago

1 x Oil Cooler Pipe (Genuine) UBP000161 £80.00

1 x Oil Cooler Pipe (Genuine) UBP000180 £70.00

1 x Gasket Sump ZF Auto 4.4 V8 M62 BMW (Land Rover) TYF000110LR £14.00

1 x Gearbox Filter ZF Auto 4.4 V8 M62 BMW (Land Rover) LPW000030LR £26.00

1 x Gearbox Filter O-Ring ZF Auto 4.4 V8 M62 BMW (Land Rover) TYX000 £0.50

1 x Oil Cooler Gearbox / Transmission L322 4.4 V8 Petrol ZF Steptron £83.33

1 x Thermostat Oil Cooler Mounting Plate (OEM) PCU000140 £34.33

1 x Thermostat Oil Cooler 5-Speed (BEHR) PBM000010 £30.00

IIRC the pipes came with the seals/sealing washers....but you may have to reclaim one of the sealing washers from the banjo union on the gearbox side....

Thanks mate, I'm really stuck as what to do going forward...

Personally, i'd live with it. Just don't park it on a posh driveway.
I'd try and bodge a smear of gasket sealant on leak area,
Save some money and wing it for a while and relax.
Mine has leaks, although i think it was rocker cover gaskets.....

myfirstl322 said:

Personally, i'd live with it. Just don't park it on a posh driveway.
I'd try and bodge a smear of gasket sealant on leak area,
Save some money and wing it for a while and relax.
Mine has leaks, although i think it was rocker cover gaskets.....

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hi, thanks for your advice and i have given this some thought believe me. the leak does seem to slow down which is a sign the oil level is dropping but when i changed the oil it was about 2 litres short which concerns me i am going to do more damage to the box. also the more oil that leaks out, the worse the vibration gets.

i had a semi posh drive up until i bought a range rover but now it looks like some oil disaster and i am expecting to come home finding birds flopping around on my drive covered in oil and being chased around by greenpeace with bottles of fairy liquid.......:decision:

I alway found it ironic seeing greenpeace hippies using soap on something other than themselves

myfirstl322 said:

I alway found it ironic seeing greenpeace hippies using soap on something other than themselves

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If they do turn up I might ask them to have a crack at my gearbox

myfirstl322 said:

Personally, i'd live with it. Just don't park it on a posh driveway.
I'd try and bodge a smear of gasket sealant on leak area,
Save some money and wing it for a while and relax.
Mine has leaks, although i think it was rocker cover gaskets.....

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crazy advice there !!

if it gets low it will feck your gearbox !

2.0_hippo said:

crazy advice there !!

if it gets low it will feck your gearbox !

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I know, it's on my drive waiting for me to decide whether to pull it out myself or send it in to an Indy and get it rebuilt....
I'll top it up if I got to drive anywhere ....

If you think its fooked it fooked, a leak is a leak, there is nothing crazy about trying to stem leak from outside, near impossible because it's oil, but i have succeeded in stopping many leaks in my life, apart from the one in my current account. Btw Holidaychicken, have you tried tightening the bolts?

myfirstl322 said:

If you think its fooked it fooked, a leak is a leak, there is nothing crazy about trying to stem leak from outside, near impossible because it's oil, but i have succeeded in stopping many leaks in my life, apart from the one in my current account. Btw Holidaychicken, have you tried tightening the bolts?

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hi, thanks for your input, yes i checked the bolts but the leak is coming from between the gearbox housing and the transfer box which means its probably leaking from the main shaft out of the box. if i could stop the leak from the outside it would just fill up the void between the two casings
we are looking at it tonight to decide whether to pull it out or book it in....

i would book it in if it needs box out, unless you've got a ramp available. It must be fooking heavy. Good luck, it could be any one of us......

myfirstl322 said:

i would book it in if it needs box out, unless you've got a ramp available. It must be fooking heavy. Good luck, it could be any one of us......

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thanks very much, my mate is keen to do it but i still dont know, just reading through the tear down manual for the box now.
even looking at the exhaust pipe nut, they look pretty rusty
i know people have done it on their drive with axle stands before
i also know one tiny piece put back in the wrong place and its all out again:mil8:

holidaychicken said:

thanks very much, my mate is keen to do it but i still dont know, just reading through the tear down manual for the box now.
even looking at the exhaust pipe nut, they look pretty rusty
i know people have done it on their drive with axle stands before
i also know one tiny piece put back in the wrong place and its all out again:mil8:

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To be honest, getting out and back in will be the biggest task, and hats off to anyone doing this on a driveway, looking at mine, it's on original exhaust, ALL IN ONE PIECE, that alone is a task to remove on a drive....
For piece of mind AND a guarantee, send it to a re-conditioner

myfirstl322 said:

To be honest, getting out and back in will be the biggest task, and hats off to anyone doing this on a driveway, looking at mine, it's on original exhaust, ALL IN ONE PIECE, that alone is a task to remove on a drive....
For piece of mind AND a guarantee, send it to a re-conditioner

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well i think i am going to ignore all the good advice and try and do the job on my drive
my exhaust looks original also but our first task is to get the thing high enough to get us under and if it ever gets to that stage, get the box out...
stand by for swearing

holidaychicken said:

well i think i am going to ignore all the good advice and try and do the job on my drive
my exhaust looks original also but our first task is to get the thing high enough to get us under and if it ever gets to that stage, get the box out...
stand by for swearing

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Get some axle stands, much safer and less swearing

holidaychicken said:

well i think i am going to ignore all the good advice and try and do the job on my drive
my exhaust looks original also but our first task is to get the thing high enough to get us under and if it ever gets to that stage, get the box out...
stand by for swearing

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I'm hesitating to take the box out of my P38 even with a pit and transmission jack

He is either mad, or is a shape shifting alien with super human strength....
Totally bonkers...:der:

If you get it out, thats something, but getting it all back in with jacks that will be too short once vehicle is high enough, on a drive?

I'm a master of driveway work and although i am an escaped loony, i'm not mental,,, or maybe i'm just getting old weak

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Get some axle stands, much safer and less swearing

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i have 4 axles stands, we are going to get it as high as possible with them front and rear and then put something solid under the wheels as a bit of extra safety maybe

myfirstl322 said:

He is either mad, or is a shape shifting alien with super human strength....
Totally bonkers...:der:

If you get it out, thats something, but getting it all back in with jacks that will be too short once vehicle is high enough, on a drive?

I'm a master of driveway work and although i am an escaped loony, i'm not mental,,, or maybe i'm just getting old weak

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its funny you should say that, i am not mad but my mate is, officially, certified and everything but that's a different forum, that may just help though.
he's fine as long as he takes his meds, doesn't drink alcohol and i mustn't feed him after dark or get him wet(i dont mean in the romantic sense either)

oh and a hidden bonus, i found out today my transfer box doesn't work, well nothing at all happens when i try and engage low, i have never tried it since i bought it so we can sort that at the same time