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Good job then!

Aussies?

These guys are cutting the firewall to get a nut off!!!

 

This is for a manual trans but may be helpful

Discovery clutch change - Land Rover Technical Archive - LR4x4 - The Land Rover Forum

and these

Try these:

Transfer case removal:
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment...e-ltb00035.pdf


Manual Transmission removal:
LT308-001.pdf

Auto Transmission removal:
LT307-003.pdf

The above procedures detail removing the gearbox/transfer case as a single unit.

 

the tranny drops down from under the truck, check the splines on the input shaft. It sounded more like that to me.