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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
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.
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!!
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!!