Happy birthday to your little man David...

And congrats on the 5.0 work sir

Unfortunately, when using the car on Tuesday last week it became apparent that the caliper was still causing problems.

Land Rover are £580 for a rear caliper and after market ones are much cheaper but are still the best part of £200. They’re bigger on the 5.0 SC and 4.4 TDV8 then they are on the earlier cars so they seem to be much more expensive.

A quick look on the internet saw that BiggRed do a caliper rebuild kit that was listed as fitting the 5.0 L320 Sport for £40 that included the pistons. I looked up the LR parts catalogue and found that the 5.0 L320 Sport and the L322 use the same rear calipers so I ordered the kit. It arrived next day.

Top job, should be sorted for a while now...

Good luck with the box....  Pete
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2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Parchment over Navy Interior. Sold
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand, Jet Interior. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green, Ivory over Aspen Interior (Fatty Offroader) Sold
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Great job David “as ever”

David, I put the keys in the blue 322 today after it’s been parked for 3-4 maybe even 6 months and I kid you not, it started first piston up! Popped a ctek on it down the back whilst we’re closed for crimbo… 👍

I decided I’d had enough of the festivities today. Cheryl went to meet her pal and her kids at soft play and she took Matthew with her so I had an afternoon to myself. I decided I’d get the dampers and solenoids swapped out in the valve body on the Range Rover gearbox.

I didn‘t take pictures of the removal of the valve body today as it’s exactly the same as the process above when we proved it was a knackered solenoid causing the issues in the first place.

Once the valve body was removed from the car I swapped out the solenoids before starting with the disassembly of the valve body as the ECU has dowels on it that will help align everything upon reassembly so I thought it would be handy to have them done rather then trying to do more with the valve body loosely assembled.

Once the valve body was on the bench with the ECU removed from it, I loosed and removed all of the bolts that hold the two halves of the valve body together. I grabbed this picture before I started lifting screws out so I knew which holes had screws in them.

Excellent David - I'll be following that when I do mine in the Spring. Thanks for all the information and parts suppliers. Gavin

2005 Range Rover Vogue SE 4.2 Supercharged V8

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Done 90 miles in the car now, most of which has been done on A and B roads to afford the car as many opportunities to change gear as possible. The gear change on it is now silky smooth. Since doing this, I’ve not felt a single change, you can hear the engine note change and you can see the revs change, other then that you can’t tell what the car is up to

Really, really happy with how this one is performing now!

Got a work trip to Cheshire in January that I’m going to use this car for so it’ll be a chance to get some decent miles on it.

Thinking my next job might be to integrate Apple CarPlay into the head unit.

David. 2002 4.6 Vogue SE - Alveston Red with Lightstone Leather
2007 Range Rover Supercharged in Java Black with Ivory Leather
2012 Range Rover 5.0 SC Autobiography in Indus Silver with Jet/Ivory Interior
2012 Range Rover 4.4 TDV8 Autobiography in Baltic Blue with Sand Interior

Great news and long may it continue!

Awesome!

Well done David... I recall those 6HP gearboxes always felt "value for money" whenever serviced...

Thanks guys

This one has settled in remarkably well with nothing felt between any gears and nothing when going from D to R and back again which is quite common on the 6HP26.

The 6HP28 in the 5.0 seems to change gear much quicker then the 6HP26 did in the 4.2 as well. I guess this is down to the totally different valve body between the 2 gearboxes.

Overall, I'm really happy with this one now.

MOT is booked for 9th January so lets wait and see how we get on then!

David. 2002 4.6 Vogue SE - Alveston Red with Lightstone Leather
2007 Range Rover Supercharged in Java Black with Ivory Leather
2012 Range Rover 5.0 SC Autobiography in Indus Silver with Jet/Ivory Interior
2012 Range Rover 4.4 TDV8 Autobiography in Baltic Blue with Sand Interior

Just finished reading this thread, very jealous of how handy you are! I've bought an L322 5.0 S/C myself yesterday. The chains are already done on mine, but I think I'm experiencing the same problems with the gearbox as you did.

When I drive at a constant speed of 120km/h (+/- 75 mph) the revs on the dashboard juggle a little bit. I've also experienced a slight hesitation at slow accelerations. It will not always do it, I've experienced this twice now, having driven +/- 300 miles in it so far. Are these the same symptoms you had? '17 Range Rover 5.0 Supercharged AB (Sold)
'16 Range Rover SDv8 AB (Sold)
'15 Range Rover SDv8 Vogue (Sold)
'13 Range Rover SDv8 Vogue (Sold)
'12 Range Rover TDv8 (Sold)
'10 Range Rover 5.0 Supercharged
'03 BMW E39 M5
'01 BMW E46 M3

Mine was hesitating in 3rd gear at around 1500 - 2000rpm when being driven gently. If you gave it more throttle then the hesitation stopped.

My revs were fluctuating by approx 200rpm when sitting on the motorway on cruise control.

You can see it in this video:

https://youtube.com/shorts/GVecayPbJO8?si=ynPV0SNcGJqWj3J5

Looking at your signature, yours is a 2017 5.0 though which means it’ll be the 8 speed gearbox whereas mine is the 6 speed.

David. 2002 4.6 Vogue SE - Alveston Red with Lightstone Leather
2007 Range Rover Supercharged in Java Black with Ivory Leather
2012 Range Rover 5.0 SC Autobiography in Indus Silver with Jet/Ivory Interior
2012 Range Rover 4.4 TDV8 Autobiography in Baltic Blue with Sand Interior

Thanks for the video. I sold my 2017 L405 S/C last year. I'm talking about a 2010 L322 5.0 S/C with the ZF 6 speed gearbox. I'm currently in the process of getting it on the road here in Belgium and will drive more after all of that is sorted. '17 Range Rover 5.0 Supercharged AB (Sold)
'16 Range Rover SDv8 AB (Sold)
'15 Range Rover SDv8 Vogue (Sold)
'13 Range Rover SDv8 Vogue (Sold)
'12 Range Rover TDv8 (Sold)
'10 Range Rover 5.0 Supercharged
'03 BMW E39 M5
'01 BMW E46 M3

Pleased to report that after dropping it off this morning, the RR has sailed through its MOT with no advisories.

Was pretty sure it would pass as I’d given it a good once over but nice to know they’ve not found anything I’d missed!

Intrigued to see the emissions certificate though. Always like to see how cleanly it’s burning fuel.

David. 2002 4.6 Vogue SE - Alveston Red with Lightstone Leather
2007 Range Rover Supercharged in Java Black with Ivory Leather
2012 Range Rover 5.0 SC Autobiography in Indus Silver with Jet/Ivory Interior
2012 Range Rover 4.4 TDV8 Autobiography in Baltic Blue with Sand Interior