“ What a bloody disaster “
The wot6’s first official outing to our MVT weekend and it never made it!!
Friday… last minute prep, fitted the rear number plate hand painted by my daughter, loaded the spare wheel, new bottle Jack arrived in the nick of time
went to select reverse and the reverse gate rod jammed 🙄…
” bugger “ .. last minute maintenance, removed the gearstick and then in what appeared to be slow motion the reverse gate spring and plate fell into the gearbox 🤬 I knelt there for a while with the “ did that really happen “ look on my face……
don’t panic I thought, dug out the flexi magnet and thankfully pulled the parts to safety. Quickly stripped, cleaned and reassembled the gearstick, all gears now selecting properly, loaded the camping gear, checked all the lights again and off we set, approximately 2 miles into the journey bouncing along ( must check the front shocks ) then suddenly there was a “ BANG !! “ and complete loss of drive 🤨 just what you need on a busy main road, managed to roll onto the footpath to keep the road clear, quick look underneath, nothing missing, check transfer box rod, everything looked as it should be 🤔 tried to move again and nothing, selected low 4WD and thankfully it moved, crawled into a side road and turned around, limped it home in low range, 4th gear, 12 mph but it got there, parked it up, moved everything to the Jeep and headed to the show.
Just had a look at the wot6 and something appears to have broken in the torque tube….great…..that’s a rear axle removal to strip it down, oh well, there always next year….😁