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mks ***
Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 151 Location: kent
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 9:59 Post subject: LC200 gearbox programme |
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Hi I hope some of you guys can help me here
I recently acquired an LC200. Generally I'm very pleased with it, except that is, its appetite to change down or not engage top gear, particularly when towing. I recently took my scouts to Switzerland and towed our trailer there and back. It isn't that heavy, about 1.5 tons at most when fully loaded. The LC coped easily as you would expect, except for its very annoying habit of not engeging higher gears. To get it to drop into its highest gear I would have to accelerate up to about 65 to 70, back off and let the revs drop and then engage cruise control, it will then run around 65mph at 1500 rpm. If I don't do that it will quite happily stay are around 1800 to 2200, so I assume 4th or 5th depending on its mood. So in my opinion the gearbox programme definitely needs a remap
Oh and btw, manual mode is no help either. You can force it to maintain lower gears which is great for steep decents but it won't stay in a high gear or even change up if it didn't want to
Any help greatly appreciated _________________ Martin
2002 LWB LC Colorado VX D4D
2014 LC 200 4.5 V8 Diesel |
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andy Moderator
Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 2260 Location: Polegate, Sussex, England.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 17:37 Post subject: |
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Sorry I cant help on this, but have you read this Web Page Name _________________ It's Not a Bl**dy Jeep it's a Landcruiser
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prav *
Joined: 09 Sep 2006 Posts: 17 Location: north somerset
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2017 19:53 Post subject: gearbox torque converter gearing issues |
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Hi ,
I'm thinking of upgrading from a 100 series to 200 and was watching some videos on you tube and in Australia its common for problems when towing with 200 sereies. please watch this video.
Hope this helps
Land Cruiser 200: Torque Converter Lockup - install & test
http://www.project200.com.au/torque-c... _________________ 1999 LC100 V8 4.7 |
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mks ***
Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 151 Location: kent
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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 15:21 Post subject: |
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Thanks Prav, that is a really interesting read and I'm very interested in the Richards Autos solution and may well go with that.
I'm sure I read somewhere that there were potentially remaps available for the autotbox but haven't found much on that
Ideally a remap that made sport mode work as it should would be very useful, i.e. you get the gear you request rather than what the car thinks is best _________________ Martin
2002 LWB LC Colorado VX D4D
2014 LC 200 4.5 V8 Diesel |
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Tetleys Newbie
Joined: 09 May 2014 Posts: 5 Location: North West
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 11:16 Post subject: |
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Hi Martin
i have just responded on the other post re mods
the gearbox isssue was my main reason for the mod , you can just get that done on its own
and it really does work by dropping the box into top gear around 62 instead of 72 ish
cheers
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