nl gearbox

[donald]

going down the freeway the other day,gearbox developed a whine in 5 gear.
checked the oil , one liter in the gearbox,was not empressed cars only done 160ks,toped it up and whine got a little better but still noisey,anyway checked the oil in the diffs and the tranfer,2 and one half liters of oil came out of the filler hole in the tranfer case[know were the oil went now] looks like a rebuild.

anyway it needs a new clutch soon anyway,is this a common problem with pajeros[vsm31]and could someone tell me were to go and get a good rebuild kit from,[maybe ebay]i remember the toyotas haveing this problem a few years ago[oil going through the seal to the tranfer]and is there a fix for this problem [a adaptor made up to go from gearbox oil filler hole to the tranfer case oil filler hole,so that the oil can go back to the gear boxfrom the tranfer case.

[donald]

just wondering if all the gear boxes from nj to np [v5m31] will bolt straight up to my bell housing on my 1998 3.5 sohc

[date]

Damn you! - Now I will have to crawl under my NL and check the levels in my boxes.

If you are pumping oil from the gearbox to the transfer case, obviously a seal has gone. Toyotas were famous for doing this, and eventually someone came up with a simple solution - insert a tube into the filler plugs of both the gearbox and the transfer case, and connect them with a flexible tube. The levels will then at least stabilise - hopefully the transfer case is about the same level as the gearbox.

[Guy]

My dudlux had one of the "level" things on it ... poor solution to the problem, but it worked. .. man I hated that stupid hilux ...