Hi All,

I am looking at buying a replacement Disco II for one totaled by a drunk driver (not me!). I have found what seems to be a good 2004 at a dealership with low miles (55K). Crawling under it though I found a two minor oil leaks and that the cover for the inspection point on the gear box was missing. Everything inside the case was clean but I am worried about what troubles this could produce. I would like to buy this one as the engine is in the best shape. I have looked at 8 others so far and almost all others have many leaks and condensation and milky goo in oil cap.

Quick advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Brad

 

Personally, I would be more worried WHY it's missing than the fact that it is missing. Not an area people just go poking around for no reason.

If it's clean in there(use a flashlight), I wouldnt be worried about any issues arising from it missing, but would replace it if bought.

 

Hi Kenk,

Thanks for the timely response. The car is at a dealership which has done extensive maintenance on it and was then turned over to them after their last round of work (fixing many of the leaky seals). I did talk with the mechanic who worked on it, and he says that he must have forgotten to put it back on.

That alone makes me a little leery of the work ...

 

where can we find a new cover? im missing one too. anyone have a part number?

 

I assume he's talking about the round torque converter inspection cover on the automatic gear box, not the big square cover on the transfer case.

 

sorry, the round the one is the one im talking about too..

 

LAND ROVER PARTS - PLATE TORQUE CONV COVER, part number FRC7706

the bolts are M6 X 16MM, part number SH106161L

 

Hi All,

I am referring to the round inspection cover.

My apologies for not giving an accurate description. I was looking through the RAVE manual trying to find the actual name for it but never found it.

I can't tell all of you guys how much I appreciate this site though. It helped me through some of the fixes on my old Disco, but I am certainly still a newbie when it comes to fixing these things and the correct terminology.