Dutch Rover V8 "4600" - (former 2200TC topic)

Thijs Leuven said:
Any clue what this could be? Have to say that I haven't checked the gearbox oil in ages, might it just be a low oil level?
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Checking the gearbox oil level is so easy it would be foolish not to check it first, but it's more likely to be a problem with the selector linkage, and most likely the selector striker lever having over-ridden the selectors on the box.

You should be able to see whether that's the case by looking up from underneath, or possibly through the access hole in the tunnel for the reverse light switch.
 
Is this with the engine running , in which case it may be clutch drag . If it still won't come out of reverse with the engine off , then Harvey's the man to follow
 
DaveHerns said:
Is this with the engine running , in which case it may be clutch drag . If it still won't come out of reverse with the engine off , then Harvey's the man to follow
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Harvey's the man to follow! :) I'm now trying to get it towed to my parents, where I have proper tools and a semi-dry place to work at it... Really need to take out part of the prop shaft to be able tot get to it properly, something I'd rather not do in a public parking lot without proper acces to the underside of my car. :roll:

I'll keep you posted!
 
Thijs Leuven said:
The car is now at my parents, will drop the gearbox this weekend to see what's going on!
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You should be able to see what's happening without removing anything.
 
Crawled under it with someone else moving the gearlever about. I can see the shaft moving forwards and backwards, but that's about it... Any movement sidewaus seems impossible and I don't know what the problem is since I don't have a frame of reference! Pretty bummed out by my lack of knowledge right now.
 
Get it high enough so you can get a good look at what's going on, then take some pics, particularly of where the selector striker lever fits into the selector rods, post them up on here, and then with a bit of luck I can see what you're not noticing .
 
You're a great help, thanks a million! :) Wasn't that ideal last weekend, on my own underneath the car with some rain drizzling down... :roll:

I'm going to take another look this weekend with an extra pair of eyes, perhaps that will be enough but otherwise I'll post some pictures of the problem!
 
Removed the middle section of the exhaust and the drive-shaft to get a clear view of the selector lever and rods. The problem probably is that it's all a bit old and worn down, you can move every part of the selector lever and rods in multiple directions. I imagine there should be some room to move about, but this is a lot!

What happened is that when I put the car into reverse, I pulled the selector lever over the edge of the reverse selector rod and jamming it in that position. With some well applied force we managed to get it back to where it shoud be! We can now clearly see that the selector lever wiggles about too much, it doesn't go straight in front of the needed selector rod so you need to change gears quite carefully!

Are there perhaps some straight-forward redo-kits on this bit of Rover P6?
 
Thijs Leuven said:
What happened is that when I put the car into reverse, I pulled the selector lever over the edge of the reverse selector rod and jamming it in that position. With some well applied force we managed to get it back to where it shoud be!

Are there perhaps some straight-forward redo-kits on this bit of Rover P6?
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Been there and done that Thijs :roll:

You can buy replacement parts for most of the bits that will have worn down or disappeared.

Dave
 
That would apply to most of them... :LOL:

I'll take a close look at what needs replacing and what's missing and start looking around for new parts. :)
 
Hurraa, the forum's back online! :)





This explains why I can whack about my gearlever without it doing anything at all... :) Send these photos to Smink (the Dutch P6 specialist) and they sent me back that I should heat up some PVC or something like that and wrap it around the bottom end of my gearlever because there aren't any solutions to this... :| Not really what I'd call a neat solution! Any thoughts on it here?
 
That looks like either a mismatch of the gearlever and the selector rod, the selector rod looks to have the larger hole that has a bush in it, which looks to be missing, and if that is the case then the ball on the bottom of the lever should be steel not plastic. Chances are it needs the bush as detailed below.

http://www.rover-classics.co.uk/images/ ... gs_jpg.htm

The bush is 90622363, and you also need two off 591353 as they are shot as well
 
The ball on the bottom indeed is steel and not plastic. I thought something had to be missing myself as wel since there aren't any signs of wear on either the lever or the rod. :) I'll e-mail Smink back for that part, even though they don't really deserve selling me anything gearlever related after their first e-mail! :LOL:
 
That pic is 3500S, but I see no reason to think the 2200 one will be any different (I just couldn't get a pic of the 4 pot one) but that is something to bear in mind. Chances are if they don't even know it should be there, they won't have it to sell to you anyway.
 
Dave3066 said:
harveyp6 said:
Chances are it needs the bush as detailed below.http://www.rover-classics.co.uk/images/ ... gs_jpg.htm

The bush is 90622363
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I didn't think that bush was available anywhere.....???

Dave
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If that is the case, then just fit the early selector rod, and either run it metal to metal, (and suffer the "buzz") or change the gearlever at the same time, or better still remove the selector rod and have someone make a bush up out of the the same material they use for poly bushes.
 
Buzzing is something I'm not going to live with on this car. I'm going to look into this and see what I can find out!
 
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