Jai, have you got a small bit of tube that will fit over the drive flang oil surface? While the tool supplied with the speedisleeve is deep enough for the front flange it bottoms out on the rear flange with a 1/4" to go before the flange is in place where the seal will run.

I think it was rather the 300 mile round trip from hemel - Eastnor - Rugely - Hemel that cooked it. I usually do no more than 15-25 miles to local trials in it. And that was cruising at 45-60 !

Yup Jai, your handbrake looked like mine :-) Got it all cleaned up now, I did deguunk the shoes, but a new set costs pennies so ordered them. waiting for a big Paddocks delivery this week :D Those steel caged interediate bearings cost a fortune, £38+vat each. the shafy was only £14. with all...

I think I have found the true culprit! Ironically the component I never initially looke closely at when I removed it. The transfer box intermediate shaft ! It would appear that despite filling the transfer box prior to the 300 mile round trip to the Nationals the seals allowed most of said oil...

A bit more detailed discussion here Jai LRSOC - "Gearbox bearing intermittent howling" thread

Just thought, that as I was semi rebuilding the box I may as well fix the oil leaks rather than replace the seals onto worn parts. If I had thought about it I would have let you guys have a look. The front flange has some pitting so could possibly be turned as there are no grooves per-se. The...

LOL I have now :D Just ordered a new front flange plus lots of spare seals from Craddocks. and a Speedi-Sleeve to fix the much more worn rear output flange (a new one of those is £200+ from JC) as per recomendation from S1 club members. I wont know what to do with my drip tray when I'm...

Blackburn is correct, its an original leather oil seal. Looks like it has never been replaced in the last 50 + years ! OK, slight moment of success followed by Muppetry! In a hurry I used a square piece of timber in the vice to smoothly press th new seal in. All went smoothly, then I...

Cheers. Thats a job for tonight then. :) I have been using a nice full gasket service kit from Dingo and replacing all seals as I go. Picking up the Starter again at lunchtime. Looking forward to getting SFF back on the road!

OK tried ro lock 2 gears together, but the selectors were not having it. Then lightbulb moment. the output gear clamped nicely into the workmate jaws. That allowed me to torque the nut up [/URL] Which of course leads to the next problem. Properly torqued the splitpin hole is obscured...

Hope so, I bought a new bendix sleeve for the starter that needs to be fitted too. Now I have som split pins I can start putting it all back together after first changing the front prop oil seal. Helping Stu tomorrow so we will see what time is left

Hows the 300 auto coming along?

Slowly moving forward despite a torrential downpour as I started! New bits arrived at work during the week. A new 1st motion shaft and bearing. Then of course I realised I had forgotten the oil guard, lock washer and nut. Fortunately they arrived from Paddocks yesterday. I left...

So Sunday Jai_landrover, stutab and I had a roadtrip to pick up Jai's latest ebay purchase This evening I had a few hours with the box, it was my intention to split it appart and clean it all up and invetigate for wear. I started by removing the tc bottom plate, bu to get at the...

Bugger, that's why it took so long to get out

Better to sell the evil monstrosity and buy a real landy

I'ts out ! After a good old GUNKing and a powerwash I then had to turn the 80" round 90 degrees in the garden so I could get the engine hoist in through the passenger door. This was acheived by highlift jacking then toppling the front round enough so I could get out the good old Tirfor Tu-16...

If I recall correctly when I ditched a fecked s3 box for a 2a box I just needed to swap the layshaft bearing but otherwise I idea the 6 cyl housing on all 3 boxes I had in it

I feel a sense of deja vu. My first Landy was a s2 109 6 cylinder with a Perkins 4.203. I got used to swapping the bell housing s around when I changed boxes. When I got a v8 conversion that too had the 6 cyl stud pattern.

Hmm Andy thinks it could be the main box output shaft bearing. The bearing vibration only occurred in 4th while cruising. Apparently the bearing can become loose and spin in the case when the box is hot. I had drained and refilled both boxes prior to setting out. Well box is coming out...