Hot legs!!!

Oh James! Your persistence is commendable. I think what we'd need to do is connect an engine to a device that just pumped fluid round and round, forcing it against its viscosity. You'd certainly get more heat if it were filled with golden syrup compared to something formulated to be runny, like brake fluid. But such a device would be a bit different to a standard Land Rover transmission, which as we've noticed, seem to be getting a bit better at avoiding the overheating problem over the years. Anyway it's an empirical question and one we'll only resolve by sticking a probe in Hub's box (sorry, that sounds rude, but I won't go back and retype it). There's only us left in here, let's go and look at another thread.

Did you find the reason for the heat? I have the same problem. Never noticed it before but it's so hot I can smell something burning. There's a bracket inside the battery box and I can barley touch it!

Well, the O/P is still active on this forum (last seen 1st Jan 2018) so let’s see if we get an update.

A bad earth? I really cant bear to read the rest of this..

The tdci gearbox gets very hot when the truck is driven hard or at high speeds for any length of time.

Mine got hot for a while...so hot you couldn't touch the seat mounts. Then I adjusted the tracking for the front wheels and it is back to being cool. Drove the Landy 1600 miles on a trip to the Orkney Islands and back with no extra hot seats at all.
Maybe the extra drag of the tracking being out was causing the gearbox to get hot......

lightning said:

The tdci gearbox gets very hot when the truck is driven hard or at high speeds for any length of time.

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Thats because theres a hooj cat clamped to it on the drivers side and not much space for air to get around it for cooling.