new to this so need advise!!!

[snowz patrol]

hi
I just bought a 1986 range rover 3.5 V8i with a manual gear box problem and need some advise.

The gear box doesn't seem to want to go into gears properly esp when warm. Do i go down the rout of fitting another manual box or as i see from other chats an auto box that ppl recommend for off roading

please advise

Regards

Snowz Patrol

[L90OOK]

Try changing the oil.  If it gets better run for a few hundred miles & change again

[Range Rover Blues]

The oil is probably too thin, it should be changed every 2 years/24,ooo mikes but as these cars get older people havn't always bothered.

Use ATF, Dextron2/3 (I use Lucas racing ATF) and as with Auto boxes a tin of "yak" might also help with shift quality.

Check if your car was built with an oil cooler, some were, for the gear box and if so that the pipes aren't damaged or blocked in any way.  It won't use the water rad but will have the hairy sausage ahead of the rad.

At the end of the day the LT77 is a Sherpa van box and if you get 80,000 miles out of it you are doing well.