On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 00:02:15 -0000, David Rayne <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Richard Johnson wrote:
>
>> Landrovers have 2 gearboxes. 1) a conventional 5+reverse normal gear
>> box and 2) a low ratio gear box which also allows you to lock and
>> unlock the diferentials. When I spun several times in the snow at
>> Flaine, I was in low ration box, first gear and locked differentials.
>> You only use that when it is f****** slippy. Basically you can pull
>> out of anything most people will encounter with normal gearbox, first
>> gear and unlocked differentials.
>
>Not in my day they didn't. My two Landrovers (both series two) had one
>four speed box with a separate high/low box.
>
>> > I loved my landrover. But is was so f****** unreliable.
>
>How things change. Mine were both totally reliable despite being
>constantly abused and the second 23 years old when I bought it.
>
>The first had an auxiliary hand throttle and PTO.
>
>Neither had floss like screen washer or heater.
>
>
>--
>David Rayne
>Medical Web Services Ltd
>www.mwsuk.co.uk
Oh happy days, mine has all the floss (even a heated windscreen), the
electrics ARE f*****g unreliable, but the mechanicals fairly bombproof.
94,000 miles & still going strong, I love it!
Bill Westwood
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