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So pleased you have prospect of the Land Rover being fixed and back on the track. I have a very similar problem with a Land Rover I try to look after, I fitted a gearbox about ten years ago, I stripped it and checked it, replacing a couple of gears and some bearings, because the previous one had lost it's oil and seized. Now second gear on the replacement gearbox has gone for the same reason. It's so easy to check and replenish, but nobody seems to do it. Modern vehicles tend to be oil-tight, so users seem to forget it used to be normal practice to check gearbox and axle oil once a month or so. The problem with Land Rovers is that the oil leaks out of the back of the main gearbox and into the transfer box, which has plenty of spare capacity, so it may well still in the vehicle, just not in the right place. Consequently there are no tell tale pools of oil when parked.
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Robert.