The Mitsubishi Pajero Owners Club®

[scorer]

My c/d lock orange light is flashing and I cant find out what this means in my hand book.
The normal is the 2 green lights in 2 wheel drive but these go off and the orange is flashing.
The car is a 3.5 GDI.
Any one got any ideas--- desparate to know.
Looks expensive.

Al

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[GeoffL]

I'm only guessing, but I wonder whether you locked the diff while driving on tarmac or "non-skiddy" surface and the diff light has flashed ever since. If so, it could be that the transmission is "wound up" and under too much stress to disengage the diff lock.

The way to release diff lock in that case is to "unwind" it by driving in reverse for a some distance (perhaps fifty yards or more!) before again driving forwards.

That said, I am only guessing (and hoping that the cure isn't expensive)

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because you have invecs2 drivetrain,you had better hope you've knocked a sensor off. are there any other lights flashing? what were you doing before it started?

[scorer]

This has just appeared out of nowhere and I wasn,t doing anything untoward at the time. On start up all lights ie 4 green and 1 orange all light up and settle down to just the 2 green, after driving a while the 2 green go off and the orange will flash. When this first happened I pulled over and turned off the engine and when i restarted the lights went back to 2 green.
Frightened to go very far in case it goes Bang.
Hope you can help with this

[hongkonger]

I have 3.5 GDI too, in mine the orange lamp flashing alone on the super select display indicates that the transfer box is in neutral (thats between 4HLc and 4LLc ) see pic here:

http://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp/inter/products/GDI_PAJERO/gdi_pajero_03.html

In 4LLc the orange lamp constant = engaged

you might be lucky and find is only a sensor problem.

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ok,need to know what gearbox is in it first

[scorer]

All I can tell you is that it is not a tiptronic box just bog standard auto

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check the vac hoses,one might have come adrift or split. and relax,it's not expensive

[scorer]

Scuse my ignorance but where would I find the vac hoses?
ps also phoned mitsi who were no help wotsoever apart from 'bring it in and we will charge you zillions to look at it'

Thanks a lot mate
Al

[rickladds]

Assuming you have the normal auto box, the lights are controlled by the 2/4wd lever. When you move the lever to select 4wd, the 2 rear lights should stay on steady, and the front 2 lights will flash until the 4wd is fully engaged. Same when you select Diff Lock - the orange will flash until engaged. Then when you deselect it will flash again until fully deselected when it will go out.

When you start the engine, you should normally only see the 2 green rear lights which are on permanently - anything else shows that something is wrong - and it will usually be either the vacuum being lost overnight allowing the selection gubbins to part select or the switches are out of adjustment. The vacuum problem is usually caused by either a perished hose or a leaky solenoid - the hoses go from the driver's side bulkead to the front axle, and another set of hoses go from the EGR control solenoids (passenger side bulkhead) to the EGR valve on the engine, and finally to the brake servo.

Check all that lot first and see if that fixes it.

[scorer]

will have a look tonight thanks mate

[Big Bill]

good luck matey

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thanks for that rickladds,i was looking for a pic to help,but i don't have one

[TomiDoo]

i have small issue
its shifting 2H 4H 4hlc 4LLc, but the indicator its not working
the CD lock its flashing only
when i turn on the key al wheel light turn on, and turn off and cd start flashing

this was happen during engine change, on pajero 3.2 from 4m41 to 4m40 engine