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Paul S. Brown
Guest
Just fitted one to a 200 Disco.
It's really not a difficult job to do:
Crawl under the car taking a ratchet with a 19mm socket with you
Find the PTO cover (It's between the hand brake drum and the exhaust pipe,
but above both by the way)
Undo all six bolts on the PTO cover
Discover that your transferbox has been overfilled and get an armful of
Dexron transmission fluid
Scrape out the brown gunge at the bottom of the PTO cover and in the centre
of the main gear (not actually very much of this on mine)
Do the wear check - chock the front wheels, jack the offside rear, put the
car in 4th (1:1 gearing) and release the handbrake - now crawl back under
the car and wiggle the handbrake drum and see if there's any slack between
what's happening at the propshaft and the maingear - there wasn't in mine,
however there was around 1/4 turn of windup available through the gearbox
as a whole)
Mark the state of the mainshaft on the little sticker on the back of the
splasher plate.
**** around for 5 minutes before realising that gaskets are 3 dimensional
things and have two sides.
Get the gaskets aligned with the holes in the PTO cover and the splasher
plate
Stick a couple of bolts through to hold everything in place (I used the ones
at 11 and 5 o'clock) and offer the cover and splasher up to the back of the
PTO housing
Spent the next half hour cursing as you batter your knuckles off the
handbrake drum/exhaust/underside of the car as you try and use a ratchet to
do up 2" long fine grained bolts.
Damage your knuckles seriously trying to nip up the bolts and having the
ratchet fall off the heads.
Take the car for a drive and wonder at the sudden lack of Whizz sounds
coming from the transfer box.
The kit actually comes with a damn good set of instructions with an
extremely good diagram. Not bad value for £23.50 shipped.
P.
It's really not a difficult job to do:
Crawl under the car taking a ratchet with a 19mm socket with you
Find the PTO cover (It's between the hand brake drum and the exhaust pipe,
but above both by the way)
Undo all six bolts on the PTO cover
Discover that your transferbox has been overfilled and get an armful of
Dexron transmission fluid
Scrape out the brown gunge at the bottom of the PTO cover and in the centre
of the main gear (not actually very much of this on mine)
Do the wear check - chock the front wheels, jack the offside rear, put the
car in 4th (1:1 gearing) and release the handbrake - now crawl back under
the car and wiggle the handbrake drum and see if there's any slack between
what's happening at the propshaft and the maingear - there wasn't in mine,
however there was around 1/4 turn of windup available through the gearbox
as a whole)
Mark the state of the mainshaft on the little sticker on the back of the
splasher plate.
**** around for 5 minutes before realising that gaskets are 3 dimensional
things and have two sides.
Get the gaskets aligned with the holes in the PTO cover and the splasher
plate
Stick a couple of bolts through to hold everything in place (I used the ones
at 11 and 5 o'clock) and offer the cover and splasher up to the back of the
PTO housing
Spent the next half hour cursing as you batter your knuckles off the
handbrake drum/exhaust/underside of the car as you try and use a ratchet to
do up 2" long fine grained bolts.
Damage your knuckles seriously trying to nip up the bolts and having the
ratchet fall off the heads.
Take the car for a drive and wonder at the sudden lack of Whizz sounds
coming from the transfer box.
The kit actually comes with a damn good set of instructions with an
extremely good diagram. Not bad value for £23.50 shipped.
P.
