Stuck in 4wd

Last month I dropped into 4wd to tackle the icy snowed roads on the estate.
Worked great but then when I went into low and then into 2wd the lever wouldn't go forward.
After some swearing and fiddling got the lever forward but only by holding the yellow lever down so stuck in 4wd.
Luckily I've got fwh's all disengaged them and have finally today got round to looking at the problem.

I thought the problem must be with one of the selector shafts so I took you the drivers floor and removed the two selector levers.
Then took off the dust cap by removing the three bolts securing it.

Straight away I could see the selector shaft that engages the dog gear to give drive to the front prop was covered in dry dirt and going rusty., and when I moved the selector lever back and forth it didn't budge

I sanded it down with a sanding pad and cleaned it up then pushing the red lever forward I tapped the top shaft back into the box and from here I could rotate the front prop by hand freely. (Engage a gear and transmission brake off)
Pulled the lever back and front prop locked up.

plenty of oil and working the lever back and forth got everything working great again.

Below is a picture of the shafts with the dust cover off.

looks like the eye is cracked ? or is it screw on ?

you have to undo nut that holds it on to remove tin cover

ahhh I didn't, I just removed mine as a whole lump with levers still on the box

Dr_evil said:

ahhh I didn't, I just removed mine as a whole lump with levers still on the box

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where did you find pic of box not many get those bits anodized?

That was just on google from this site


Land RoverReconditioned Gearboxes | Reconditioned Gearboxes

Is it just me or does all that ally look painted in that picture?

I know from my old days of vw shows some people would paint their gearboxes with aluminum paint designed for alloy wheels.

foxyjam said:

Is it just me or does all that ally look painted in that picture?

I know from my old days of vw shows some people would paint their gearboxes with aluminum paint designed for alloy wheels.

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some of us still do,looks more waxed after wet blasting to me

I was going to give mine a coat when I rebuilt it a few months ago but didn't bother as didn't have time & and couldn't be arse'd to clean it well enough.

It's not as if people are going to be commenting on how clean my undercarriage is now

true but if your selling them it helps people think youve done a good job,they never really think youve done much to a dirtish looking box ,though makes no difference