Front drive shaft broke.
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Welcome to the forum. The front drive shaft breaking is a somewhat common problem on these vehicles due to the factory u-joints not being grease-able. Often when the drive shaft breaks (if at speed) it will smash into the transmission knocking a gaping hole in the case. If the transmission is not able to shift into a gear, this is possibly what has happened. Time to crawl underneath it and look for damage.
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What exactly do you mean when you say it won't go into gear? Like the shifter won't move or just that it doesn't go anywhere when you shift it into gear? With the driveshaft broken and an open center diff in the transfer case, it's normal for the truck not to move if one of the driveshafts is disconnected/broken.
The shift cable is on the opposite side of the trans from the driveshaft, the driveshaft would be more likely to destroy the rest of the transmission before it would affect the shift cable.
The shift cable is on the opposite side of the trans from the driveshaft, the driveshaft would be more likely to destroy the rest of the transmission before it would affect the shift cable.
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But clearly it's the piece of junk truck's fault.
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I'm 57 yo and have been driving since I was 13. Never in all the years had a drive shaft come apart. I had only owned the rover for a couple months and thought maybe the roaring was inherent to the Rover. From what I've read here it is a bad design, no zerk fittings. Incompetent hardly. I'm an industrial maintenance tech and repair things much more complicated than a vehicle. I came here for advice not smartass remarks.
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noted.......but I have been involved with about 2 dozen drive shafts (twist, split, strip, crack, separate, etc ) break......even pole vaulted a couple of times, and only 1 was on a rover. I think he was suggesting that the lack of lube/maintenance (p/o) from neglect was the cause, not the truck.
Last edited by dusty1; 01-13-2015 at 07:17 AM.