James Rothwell
Member
Hey all,
I noticed on Sunday whilst at Slindon pay and play site going up a very steep gravel hill that my 80 started juddering quite a lot, I thought it might have been my front wheels slipping but would have been impossible as I had my diff locked? So I thought maybe the hill was too steep so switched to low range and no juddering or anything.
Then on the way home tonight at a set of traffic lights, I wasn't paying attention looked up and noticed they where green so gave it some throttle to accelerate hard away and it did the whole juddering thing again.
It seems to only do it from stationary, when moving in any gear you can apply full throttle and it'll change down (if req'd) and accelerate away smoothly albeit not very quickly. Tried it again on a empty bit of road and it did the juddery thing again.
I check my AT fluid level often as I've got a small leak which is from the gearbox casing where someone has overtightening something and put a crack in it. I wonder why the they where messing with the gearbox anyway?
Any tips or advice? Obviously don't accelerate hard which I very rarely do probably why it's taken me 2,400 miles to find out it's doing it. My worry is that I'm meant to be going to Morocco in it in 30 days and even though I don't think we'll be accelerating hard in it I might be using a bit of throttle to climb rocky/sandy hills.
I noticed on Sunday whilst at Slindon pay and play site going up a very steep gravel hill that my 80 started juddering quite a lot, I thought it might have been my front wheels slipping but would have been impossible as I had my diff locked? So I thought maybe the hill was too steep so switched to low range and no juddering or anything.
Then on the way home tonight at a set of traffic lights, I wasn't paying attention looked up and noticed they where green so gave it some throttle to accelerate hard away and it did the whole juddering thing again.
It seems to only do it from stationary, when moving in any gear you can apply full throttle and it'll change down (if req'd) and accelerate away smoothly albeit not very quickly. Tried it again on a empty bit of road and it did the juddery thing again.
I check my AT fluid level often as I've got a small leak which is from the gearbox casing where someone has overtightening something and put a crack in it. I wonder why the they where messing with the gearbox anyway?
Any tips or advice? Obviously don't accelerate hard which I very rarely do probably why it's taken me 2,400 miles to find out it's doing it. My worry is that I'm meant to be going to Morocco in it in 30 days and even though I don't think we'll be accelerating hard in it I might be using a bit of throttle to climb rocky/sandy hills.