Recent content by TonyOZ

The vehicle has done about 160k km. The trans has been flushed and the level checked with the new fluid.

Hi, I've had a few problems with solenoids on my auto box in my KV6 Freelander 1. All of my solenoids test OK electrically. However, I had a problem where the box wouldn't shift out of first until it warmed up. I fixed that by replacing Shift Solenoid A. The needle valve on that solenoid was...

Hi, My Freelander 1 V6 with the jatco 506e gearbox has a fault where it will not change out of 1st when cold and then goes into F4 limp home mode. If I drive on a while until the engine temp shows in the middle of the range and then switch the ignition off and then re-start the car, the gearbox...

It's holiday season here, too much going on to mess with cars! I haven't opened the solenoid cover again yet. I suspect that I have messed with the wiring for the temp sensor inside the solenoid housing when swapping them. At least I hope so. The current behaviour is very consistent. When the...

As previous posts show in this thread all the solenoids have been replaced. To change the temp sensor, does the gearbox need to come out?

I wasn't happy with my multimeter readings so I checked again at the barrel connector to see if I could get a reading at any of the multimeter range setting. I started to get readings (other than zero and one) on the 20k Ohm setting. A cold reading showed 1.99 which I guess is 39,800 Ohms. A...

Meter reads 1 as it would for example with a broken wire.

So I checked the speed sensor and temperature sensor resistances at the ecu and the barrel connector. The speed sensor values were: Vehicle speed sensor 570ohm Intermediate speed sensor 566ohm Turbine speed sensor 561 ohm All at 20 deg C However, the fluid temperature sensor showed complete...

I've done the one wheel up test and the VCU allows the single wheel to move. Since then, I have been driving the car regularly and the symptoms can be replicated reliably and consistently. Always better than an intermittent fault! When the car is driven away from cold ( by cold I mean...

OK, so I changed all the gear solenoids for new ones. The 2-3 shift is very slightly unsmooth. However, I now sometimes go into limp home (F4) mode when the gearbox is cold. I have had the codes read and it show that ratio 2 and ratio 3 are out of range. The mechanic who read the codes said that...

I've read that the SRS ECU is a one use item. I've also seen web sites offering to clear the crash code data. I've also seen quite a few used SRS ECUs for sale. If I fit a used SRS ECU from another vehicle that does not have any recorded crash data, will it work OK?

I have recently replaced my gearbox solenoids. Since undertaking this work, I have noticed that the cooling fan runs for some minutes after switching off the ignition. Maybe just a coincidence, but it did not do this before the gearbox work. I generally understand the pre-conditions for the fan...

I changed Shift solenoid A but unfortunately, I may have been mistaken because it is occaisonally 'flaring' on shifting from 3rd to 4th.

I'm suspecting Shift Solenoid A Great resource for this gearbox in the attached file.

Not so fast. I have noticed that all is not completely well. The remaining symptom is that on shifting from 2nd to 3rd the gearbox (very occaisonally) over-revs on disengaging 2nd and then changes harshly into 3rd. It is possible that one of the solenoids I previously replaced was not OK (2nd...