Member Since: 02 Mar 2006
Location: aberdeenshire
Posts: 703
fouling relay-my experience
thanks very much Disco_Mikey for your excellent instructions. My gear selection was getting increasingly worse (except no jumping out of gear around corners) so having read your description of the issue I was ready to temporarly lubricate the linkage and order the parts.
Taking off the gearbox cover I noticed that a previous LR dipstick mechanic (only previously serviced by them) had managed to loose one bolt & strip another, anyway to my delight I found the culprit. Possibly the same dipstick mechanic had broken off a nearby relay from its housing (or the housing had rusted) either way the relay assembly had worked it's way right into the gear slection pivot mechanism and was fouling it. I cable tied the relay out of the way, lubed the linkages and everything is OK again. JD!!! 2007 TDV6 HSE 'Silver Lady'. With 'free' privacy glass LOL.
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19th Dec 2012 3:01 pm
Curly
Member Since: 30 Sep 2011
Location: suffolk
Posts: 687
Is manual linkige is same place.
4th Jan 2013 9:00 pm
Curly
Member Since: 30 Sep 2011
Location: suffolk
Posts: 687
Is manual linkige is same place.
4th Jan 2013 9:00 pm
Curly
Member Since: 30 Sep 2011
Location: suffolk
Posts: 687
Is manual linkige is same place.
4th Jan 2013 9:01 pm
Disco_Mikey
Member Since: 29 May 2007
Location: Dundee, Scotland
Posts: 20771
No, this is for auto only. Manual linkage is on the top of the gearboxMy D3 Build Thread
Member Since: 02 Sep 2011
Location: North East
Posts: 5
Thanks Mikey. That's brilliant info - most helpful.
Regards
10th Jan 2013 7:28 pm
yogi972
Member Since: 05 Jun 2011
Location: Kineton
Posts: 3372
So today I greased mine today.
Now I've never posted this comment before just I case I was mistaken...
But why is my cable going to my linkage coming in from the right
But on disco Mikeys its coming in from the left??
I thought I got the picture orientation mixed up, but today I had a propper look and everything is identical even down to the roushed up heat cloth on the exhaust above...
No I didn't take a pic, as I didn't really think to do so..
3rd Feb 2013 4:07 pm
Disco_Mikey
Member Since: 29 May 2007
Location: Dundee, Scotland
Posts: 20771
All autos have the cable on the right hand side of the box My D3 Build Thread
Member Since: 05 Jun 2011
Location: Kineton
Posts: 3372
Looking at your picture number 1 my cable with black blob thing on it is defiantly coming from the right on my car, by the filter. As I was wary of spraying to much grease into the blob thing as it had what looked like springs and an electrical multiplug by it ...
If it wasn't dark I'd go out n take a pic
Looking from the rear of the car towards the front ....
3rd Feb 2013 6:22 pm
Disco_Mikey
Member Since: 29 May 2007
Location: Dundee, Scotland
Posts: 20771
The 1st picture is correct. It comes in from the rear of the gearbox, and points forward...My D3 Build Thread
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