The Series Landy Gearbox explained

[Guest Breadvan72]

This is a completely accurate guide to changing gear in a Series Landy, except for the omission of the words "fucking get in, you cunting bastard fucking thing".

 

 

[jakebullet]

And the lols* to be had when the stick snaps off flush so you're down to overdrive in or out in one gear.

 

*the wrong side of nice flat Huddersfield.

[twosmoke300]

Funny cos it's true

[Guest Breadvan72]

I honestly didn't think it was possible to say bastard that many times in the space of one minute until I first had a Landy.

[Lacquer Peel]

[michael1703]

Also applicable to manual gearbox range rover p38, despite the 30-40 years of development, mine is just as bad, 1st mistaken for 3rd very often

[Lacquer Peel]

I've driven a Land Rover with an LT95(?) gearbox, 4 speed + overdrive, the throws between the gears are wide but it was easy enough to use.

[scruff]

My S1 has quite a nice box, well it should do really as it's a development of the Rover car box. I hardly ever use the clutch once moving cos I am lazy. I've had a couple of Series 3s that were bastards and when I sold ex MoD crap plenty of 90s and 110s with god awful LT77s. 

[Skoze]

You have to shift at an angle in mine, great fun. Tried to teach my mum to double de-clutch in it over the summer, need to swap boxes again now  

[Station]

"Like stirring rocks with a snake"

[DSdriver]

My DS was a bit like that (and column change for extra play) until all the bushes were replaced. Its quite good now. But I keep searching for a missing sixth gear when I get up to 70mph. Then I look at the speedo and realise I am going a lot faster than I thought I was.

[twosmoke300]

The thing that made me laugh about the series gearbox was that the forward gears were quite short throw and snicky which was fine til you used reverse which was very long throw and beat your knuckles off the steel dashboard.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I loved the fact that my Series 3 had four gear knobs (main one, high/low selector, 4WD selector, Fairey Overdrive).

 

I bought my Landy from a bloke in a pub.  I sold it about seven years later to an ebay spacker.  He put it back on sale, turned down a big offer, and then broke it up and sold the parts for well below going rates.  Bah.

[drum]

Rifle bolt action on all of mine

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Never had a problem with a Land Rover gear change, but that could be because,oh I don't know......

 

Yes,I do. I'm not a girl !

 

I did have an SD1 once that ,I think, only went into to second once in my ownership. When it was cold in the morning it wouldn't go in and once you were underway with the peg off the choke you never needed it anyway.

[Guest Breadvan72]

The worst gear box in the history of EVAH was the one in my brother's D reg Scirocco, but that was probably because he had monged it. 

[dollywobbler]

Haven't had too much trouble with Series Landies, but the Disco is 'unusual.' I'm sure it wasn't that hopeless when it was new. Took months to get used to it.

[drum]

A mate's A reg golf gti had the

The worst gear box in the history of EVAH was the one in my brother's D reg Scirocco, but that was probably because he had monged it.

 

A mate's A reg golf gti would have run that close I reckon.

[Timewaster]

Flash back memories of a borrowed Bedford midi van.

The owners parting advice Was "Good luck with the gears, they hide!"

 

He wasn't joking

[Guest Breadvan72]

A mate's A reg golf gti would have run that close I reckon.

 

That's probably where he got it from.

[brickwall]

I found my old 88 changed gears much better when the box was simply worn out.

[wuvvum]

Flash back memories of a borrowed Bedford midi van.

The owners parting advice Was "Good luck with the gears, they hide!"

 

He wasn't joking

 

My Midi was similar - not helped by the column linkage being partially seized.  It got better with use, and I got used to it, so within a week or two I was changing gear without thinking twice, but when I first picked it up I pretty much left it in fourth the whole way home, slipping the clutch as necessary - I knew that if I changed out of fourth there was a chance I would never find another gear again.

[Des]

It all went wrong when the great unwashed started demanding a fourth gear, an absolute disaster as any more than three is simply asking too much of a selector mechanism. Messrs Laycock provided all the extra ratios needed outside the gearbox for any chap with an inclination to travel at unnaturally high speed.

[barefoot]

Surely the 'wrestler' box in an Austin Maxi is the nadir of all gearboxes?

[Albert Ross]

I have zero problems with my gearboxes.... you must all be retarded to break them or find them horrible to use. Even the S3 box I have in one of mine is smooth and quiet. Honestly....

[richardthestag]

Never had issues with a series box. Rifle bolt seems an accurate description for those i have driven. If yours isnt then something is seriously wrong with it.

 

Wurst gearchange eva has to be fiat uno. Fucking thing was new as well, op diagram could have fiat uno instead of series and i would agree wholeheartedly.

 

Allegro was horrible also but seemed great by comparison to the hapless uno

[Tayne]

Ferrari again. 

[vulgalour]

I had suspected my gear selection was suitably weighted to give a proper mechanical feel appropriate to the vehicle's size.  I was sure other people telling me it was 'notchy' must be wrong.  That peculiar little quirk of sometimes having to select first or reverse gear twice is just to give me a little nudge to make sure I'm absolutely ready before I set off in my chosen direction, some might consider that a safety feature.

[rml2345]

"I can select all the gears, just not necessarily at the same time"

I think it's a bonding experience with new shite to find out which are available given a set of circumstances. The old Volvo is quite good in this respect as only reverse goes missing occasionslly.

[Inspector Morose]

 

 

 

Now try and miss a gear with that fucker.