Recent content by Bemble

Yes, if the four drive bolts had been removed this would explain your issue, but it would be a pretty weird thing for them to have done. This is what your Y85 converter looks like on the back – you can clearly see the 4 bolt positions. I did wonder if this hole in the engine casing, just above...

Okay, that sounds pretty serious, I’m afraid. My guess would be that the input/turbine shaft has snapped, or possibly an internal failure in the torque converter. Unfortunately, there’s a limit to what you can learn from diagnostics as nobody thought to allocate a DTC to a failed input shaft...

Do you mean that both wheels on one side of the vehicle are off the ground and, if you turn one wheel, then the other turns too? If so, that's just the centre differential doing its thing i.e. the front propshaft is connected to one side gear and the rear propshaft to the other so, even if the...

I’m not familiar with the 2.7 V6 engine, but usually there are rearward facing access plugs that you can remove on the engine or sometimes they use the starter motor hole for access (hence my suspicion). Clearly, this is a very long shot. I would strongly recommend that you get access to...

You have the ZF 6HP26X transmission and the Magna Steyr DD295 transfer box. The Fuse 37 thing only applies to L322 models with the earlier New Venture Gear NV225 transfer box used with the 5-speed transmissions (ZF 5HP24 & GM 5L40-E). It’s not relevant to the L320 as your vehicle can be towed on...

Does the park lock hold the vehicle stationary when the handbrake is off, or will it roll in Park? Phil

The torque converter is separate to the transmission i.e. you don’t need to open up the transmission to replace it, though you do need to drop the transmission out of the car to gain access to it. Any competent mechanic can replace a torque converter. There’s no specialist knowledge of automatic...

You have the ZF 6HP26X transmission. “...It's started to hang on to 4th gear up to about 3k revs before it can be forced to shift down by lifting off the throttle a few times...” I assume you mean shift up rather than shift down? One reason for the transmission to hold on to the lower gears is...

Sounds like you have a worn rear stator bush. I would check the E-clutch circuit with air pressure, to confirm. https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/gearbox-speed-sensor.384387/#post-5490737 https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/help-please-gearbox-issue.330768/#post-4269229 Phil

Could be the output shaft spline which has failed. If the spline isn’t lubricated during assembly then it can fail through fretting corrosion. Common issue on the 6HP26X models, less common on the 6HP28X like yours. Phil

I guess Automatic Transmissions Preston Ltd on Emmanuel Street is the best known in our immediate area. They've been going for donkey's years Phil

If you can record some live data, that may certainly help determine what’s going on. The fewer things you measure, the higher the sampling frequency, so I would suggest just engine speed, turbine speed and output speed initially. The detection of clutch slip and subsequent selection of the next...

I wonder if this is the early signs of a worn rear stator bush. This is a very common issue with the 6HP26 and this bush acts as a seal for the E-clutch hydraulic circuit. When it wears & subsequently leaks, the pressure on the E-clutch drops and the clutch can slip. The transmission control...

Sounds like you may have an issue with either your Forward Clutch, or the Forward Clutch sprag. Even if there was a solenoid problem, or - for that matter- even if you lost all electrical power to the transmission, it should still drive forward in its default gear (4th) as it has a Manual Valve...

https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/2005-l322-gearbox-problem.342583/page-2#post-4494577 Phil