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Transfer box won't stay in high range

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narked:
All was well this morning. Drove from the house up to the road in low box. Drove through the gate (opened it first obviously!), selected high range and drove down to work.

Drove back from work in high range, got to the track, put it into low range, no problems. Later, again at the road, tried to select high range, and the lever won't pull all the way back. It's coming just far enough back from the neutral position to actually get drive to the wheels, and will stay in place, until I hit a bit of a bump or cross a cattle grid, at which point it jumps back to neutral. Can get round it by holding the lever in place, but this isn't really ideal!

Anyone got any ideas as to what could be causing it? (Please don't say it's a new transfer box job! :P)

Cheers,
Matt

extreme90:
couple of things  :lol:
take the cover off from inside the cab so you can look down onto the gear/transfere box
now it might just need adjusting....
look at the arm that goes to the trans box at the end of it theres 2 13mm nuts 1 either side of the selector fork off the trans box see if these have backed off or moved any,
undo it if it aint moved and remove the arm, put into low, undo nut then pull into high,
now grip the selector with pliers and see if itll move as it should
if it doesnt feel right, undo the ring of bolts around the housing and pull it up, follow the arm accross and there will be a cam knida arm, this is secured by a 6mm alan key grub screw which have a habbit of coming undone  :shock:
just retighten it and refit
or it could just be a clump of mud trapped inbertween linkages
but lt230's hardly go wrong
 :lol:
if non of this makes sense drop me a pm and ill ring you or you ring me and ill explain in more detail
dan

narked:
Cheers, I'll have a look at it tomorrow in daylight. Just had to drive down to work in low box, as even whilst holding the lever it was dropping out high range.

extreme90:
is the lever sloppy, very stiff or jerky/notchy ?
dan

narked:
Other than it not actually going all the way into high, it feels no different to normal. Doesn't seem overly stiff or anything, about the same as my mates 300 series with a currently working transfer box :P

If you pm me a number and let me know when it's alright to call, I'll give you a ring once I've had a look at it.

Cheers,
Matt

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