Hello everyone, first time poster here. I hope it’s ok to post this request for advice.
I have a Borg Warner 65 gearbox mated to a rover 3.5 v8 in my series Land Rover.
At idle, in park, the gearbox bell housing has a pronounced tick, it’s repetitive and in time with the engine idle.
When driving the noise is still there, it just has more of a ring to it… (more precisely I’d call it a light clang, almost like a very distant old fashioned fire station bell!) It’s quite disconcerting.
A Landy is quite unrefined and noisy at the best of times, so I might be missing it, but it seems like the noise may only be happening off-throttle, but it’s quite hard to tell
In all other respects the gearbox performs perfectly - changes well with no clonks between gears. The gearbox fluid is lovely cherry red and smells lovely.
The vehicle is never driven very far and prior to recently it was off the road for a year while other works were ongoing, so it does sit around a lot if that is relevant.
I’m sure a clang isn’t ever a good sign, but I hope that you might be able to form an opinion whether this is something particularly serious, or possibly just the result of natural wear on a component.
Link to idling video below, there was no point trying to video it while in motion as you’d never hear it over the exhaust note! It’s hard to tell on the video but the noise is Definitely coming from the bell housing rather than the engine.
Once again, I hope this is ok to post here.
I have a Borg Warner 65 gearbox mated to a rover 3.5 v8 in my series Land Rover.
At idle, in park, the gearbox bell housing has a pronounced tick, it’s repetitive and in time with the engine idle.
When driving the noise is still there, it just has more of a ring to it… (more precisely I’d call it a light clang, almost like a very distant old fashioned fire station bell!) It’s quite disconcerting.
A Landy is quite unrefined and noisy at the best of times, so I might be missing it, but it seems like the noise may only be happening off-throttle, but it’s quite hard to tell
In all other respects the gearbox performs perfectly - changes well with no clonks between gears. The gearbox fluid is lovely cherry red and smells lovely.
The vehicle is never driven very far and prior to recently it was off the road for a year while other works were ongoing, so it does sit around a lot if that is relevant.
I’m sure a clang isn’t ever a good sign, but I hope that you might be able to form an opinion whether this is something particularly serious, or possibly just the result of natural wear on a component.
Link to idling video below, there was no point trying to video it while in motion as you’d never hear it over the exhaust note! It’s hard to tell on the video but the noise is Definitely coming from the bell housing rather than the engine.
Once again, I hope this is ok to post here.
