AboutJohn Robison Expertise I own J E Robison Service in Springfield, MA. We are Bosch Car Service for Land Rover, BMW, Mercedes, and other European lines. I can answer most questions about Land Rover service or repair. I'm known as a car enthusiast, machine aficianado, photographer, writer, and speaker. I've been around Land Rovers and British cars most of my life. Visit me at my car business, www.robisonservice.com or my author website, www.johnrobison.com. Check out my autism and writing blog at jerobison.blogspot.com or my photos on www.pbase.com/robisonphoto
John Elder Robison
Experience I have been a Land Rover service manager since Land Rover returned to North America in 1987. My company is a four-star Bosch Car Service facility, known nationwide for Land Rover service, overhaul, customization, and restoration. We're a dealer and service agent for APCO, backer of the Land Rover Assured and Certified dealer service contracts and Easycare independent service contracts.
In addition to Land Rover our company services BMW, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, Rolls_Royce, and Bentley motorcars. We have factory-plus-level service capability for all makes.
Visit my company online at www.robisonservice.com > service > land rover Also visit my blog at robisonservice.blogspot.com
Organizations ASA IATN NPPA PPA
Publications In the Land Rover world, my writing can be found in Land Rover Lifestyle, Land Rover Monthly, The Rover News, The Rover Log, The Rover Reference. In the wider publishing world, my work is published by 20 publishers in over 50 countries. Look Me in the Eye is a New York Times bestseller and an international bestseller.
Education/Credentials I am ASE certified, Bosch Trained, and trained by Omnitec/T4 and Autologic on their Land Rover test systems.
Question Hi John,
Had the gearbox checked on our Td5 before heading off on a 6000 km trip around Western Australia, pulling a 2.5 tonne caravan. All well sat on 95 kms at just above 2000 revs. Two days before returning home, the gearbox started revving out to about 45000 revs before changing to second. Changes up from this were fine, and the fault seemed intermittent, but probably worse on colder mornings. Arriving home we couldn't select reverse without the car stalling, disconnected the battery to reset the computer which seemed to fix the reversing problem but not the forward gear revving out. Checked the oil level which is okay. Have booked it in to a mechanic but because of the remoteness of where we live we don't have the best support for landrovers. Just thought it would be good to get an experts opinion before we take it in.
Answer That sounds like a failure within the gearbox. Those ZF boxes are tricky to work on and beyond the skill of most transmission shops. Here in the USA there are a few ZF authorized rebuilders. If your truck were here I'd pull the transmission and send it to one of them for overhaul. Hopefully ZF has a service network in Australia, too. Removal and refit of the gearbox is pretty easy; it's just heavy work.
