I already know I'm nuts. I know it's a lot of work. But I'm converting my 04 Discovery 2 to a manual R380 trans. The torque converter broke in the truck. Either way I have to pull the transmission. I figure might as well do a manual swap.

The main purpose of this thread is to show the trials and tribulations of a R380 swap in a D2. Lots of people asked the question what is needed to do the swap but never show the nuts and bolts of the process.

So let's get started!! I jacked the front up and put it on blocks. I followed the process shown in the free D2 repair manual to remove the Autobox.
Link here.
http://www.landroverresource.com/doc...hop_Manual.pdf

Let's keep this thread positive. Peace!

 

I'm looking forward to this, good luck dude.

 

I took the catalytic converters, cross member, center muffler, front & rear drive shafts and E brake drum off.

The cross member's have soft bolts with a small head. Only 3 of 8 came out without a torch. All the heads stripped in a wrench. Once really hot and an easy out hammered on they came out with ease.



The muffler bolts were so rusted I just cut them all off with a cut off wheels. I'll fix them later.

Took off the E brake assembly off the transfer case and wired it off to the side.

 

Let me know if you need anything. We do this all the time

 

For real?? I thought we the Bosh 4.6 it was a bear. Am I mistaken?

 

I'm waiting for the admin to approve my update.

Erik, I already talked to Justin. I'll let you guys know if I need anything else.

 

Subscribing!

Where did you find the transmission?

 

The transmission is from a 94 D1. I found it on Craigslist a couple years ago. It came with the pedal box, trans, transfer case, shifter & transfer case shifter, center console, wiring harness, trans and transfer case mounts, bunch of bolts and some other stuff. I couldn't pass up all the parts for $700.

Is there anyway to get the admins to approve your posts? It's been 2 days. Unless they deleted it. I'll repost it tomorrow and see what happens.

For some reason my picture is rotated in my original post. Here it is flipped. haha!!

 

I PM'd an administrator.

 

That was a hell of a deal you got sounds pretty complete.