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pajeromatt · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 22:22 Post subject: gear box whine ...

mine seems to be very low gear ratio's drives me mad its revving like mad on the motor way but at 60 under acceleration it whines ... do they all do this?

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nick the nurse · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 23:29 Post subject:

When did you last check the oil level in the Diff Confused

The Lewis Mob · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 15:31 Post subject:

seem to remember that some Pajero's were fitted with lower ratio rear diffs for some reason, although absolutely no clue how you would find out - i expect it will be stamped on the VIN plate somewhere, but how to decipher it, who knows???????????????/

pajeromatt · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 23:01 Post subject:

right i take it diff in gear box or rear axel?

ive not checked the oil in gear box ill have a look i do want to change what ever it is thats making it so low gear'd as its a reall pain, ive got a mate breaking one that should have gear box or rear axel?

Baddoo · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 23:18 Post subject:

The other thing to check is that your overdrive is actually working, turn the overdrive off (button on the side of the gear lever) then drive at 50 on a flat road and flick overdrive on, if its working there should be a drop of close to 1000 rpm. If the revs only go down by a couple of hundred your overdrive isn't working.

dervmonster · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:27 Post subject:

If you need to identify the gear ratio, look at the vin plate on the passenger side bulk head, should have "Trans V4AW2 4875" where on my paj the 'V4AW2' relates to the transmition type and the '4875' relates to the gear ratio which is 4 to 875 at least on my model.