My 'new to me' 1979 Series 3 109 petrol, has an issue with 2nd gear. It will not engage into 2nd gear with or without the engine running. Everything else works well but just no 2nd gear. I've had it for 6 weeks or so . . no problems and loving my Land Rover, but today it just would not go into 2nd gear.

This is my first Land Rover so any help or advice would be greatly appreciated . . thanks in advance Scott

 

here's a link to a lot of older manuals Land Rover Manuals

Rover has improved manuals over the years, the old ones are pretty basic in some areas. Like a one page electrical schematic for the entire vehicle.

 

Hopefully it's just adjustments needed on the selector fork is faulty, maybe the fork loose on the shaft.
Worse case is the second gear is trashed so bad it won't engage (I had this issue on my '62, which is the same basic design gearbox.

That's because the electrics were so much simpler. One page is all you need. To me, needing a 118 page electrical manual is much worse.

 

241 for the LR3, that one page would have to be pretty big. I joke with the engineering students that their resume should be one page. Print it on a 3 X 4 piece of plotter paper, roll it up, ship to CEO of firm you are interested in. Won't fit in an inbox, and they'll open it because it might be the plans they were expecting for the next bid. You'll get an interview.

I do agree that we have way too much computer things to make four tires roll down the road.