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landyman37

Member Since: 22 Jan 2012
Location: west midlands
Posts: 153

Discovery td5 autobox

Hi all. Am looking at fitting a autobox out of a discovery v8 into our defender td5 manual at the moment I have the complete disco to remove all the items am looking at pros and cons on fitting it will it be straight forward or a nightmare. Has anyone done this converstion?

Thanks for reading

Phil

26th Mar 2016 8:59pm

GREENI

Member Since: 22 Aug 2010
Location: staffs
Posts: 10378

The auto is the same as the td5 disco auto box, though I'd 'guess' you'll need the td5 bellhousing.

26th Mar 2016 9:33pm

landyman37

Member Since: 22 Jan 2012
Location: west midlands
Posts: 153

How about electrics ?

26th Mar 2016 9:45pm

GREENI

Member Since: 22 Aug 2010
Location: staffs
Posts: 10378

I'm not sure on the td5, I only use the reverse light wire from my auto. Not fussed about the inhibitor, that's just a nanny.

26th Mar 2016 10:59pm

landyman37

Member Since: 22 Jan 2012
Location: west midlands
Posts: 153

Ok I will keep you all posted on how it goes

29th Mar 2016 3:45pm

mikeh501

Member Since: 07 Jan 2013
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1142

if its out of a Disco1 then it will be a ZF4HP22 which doesnt have any electronics to worry about. If its out of a Disco2 then it will be the ZF4HP22EH which is the one which requires an ECU. You can get one from Ashcroft called the compushift for about a grand.

29th Mar 2016 7:39pm

landyman37

Member Since: 22 Jan 2012
Location: west midlands
Posts: 153

It's a discovery 2 gearbox. Think I am going to have a try with the discovery ecu first see if I can get it to control it.

30th Mar 2016 8:38am

mikeh501

Member Since: 07 Jan 2013
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1142

good luck

30th Mar 2016 9:53am

jst

Member Since: 14 Jan 2008
Location: Taunton
Posts: 7987

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Stornoway Grey

if its not a manual box you wont get it to work without compushift, for one thing a def doenst have the pitch and yaw sensors that the box ecu looks for.

for non e box you will need to find a way to accelerator feed to box. alot revert to cable actuation just for the box.

note V8 TC is prob not ideal size for the td5. Cheers

James
110 2012 XS Utility
130 2011 M57 bespoke Camper
90 2010 Hardtop
90 M57 1988 Hardtop

30th Mar 2016 3:52pm

landyman37

Member Since: 22 Jan 2012
Location: west midlands
Posts: 153

Can I not put all the electrics off the discovery into the defender?

31st Mar 2016 8:45am

jst

Member Since: 14 Jan 2008
Location: Taunton
Posts: 7987

you can try, many have before including various companies, i dont know of any that have made it work that way. Cheers

James
110 2012 XS Utility
130 2011 M57 bespoke Camper
90 2010 Hardtop
90 M57 1988 Hardtop

31st Mar 2016 9:21am

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