By JCC on Saturday, December 01, 2001 - 02:56 pm: Edit

I had light come on my dash after off roading! It is red and is in the upper left hand side of instrument cluster kinda looks like a thermometer with a circle around it! What does this mean?

Justin

By cartner on Saturday, December 01, 2001 - 06:27 pm: Edit

if its red it means "don't do that!" and "stop NOW"

By mike w on Saturday, December 01, 2001 - 06:34 pm: Edit

it means....oww owwww...oooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

By JCC on Saturday, December 01, 2001 - 06:39 pm: Edit

ok guys.....I found out that it is the Transmission fluid Temp light! Anyone know how to reset this? It says in the manual that this light can be triggered from pulling up the parking brake while driving as well as other things! After I finished offroading I did a low speed brake pull to Clean off the brakes before hitting the road! Would this really have triggered it? Please tell me how to reset this light?

Justin

By Eric N (Grnrvr) on Saturday, December 01, 2001 - 06:41 pm: Edit

Is your trany fluid low? Should check it just in case. As far as reseting the light.. I have no clue.

By cartner on Saturday, December 01, 2001 - 06:45 pm: Edit

ok, when you PUll the HANDLE thats not your brakes your affecting, its your transmission. its a transmission lock, so thats probably a BAD IDEA. its locking your gears or chocking them internally, and you can seriously strip them/crack expensive things, and drastically change your mod budget in about .5 seconds doing that.

By Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) on Saturday, December 01, 2001 - 07:09 pm: Edit

Justin,

Cartner's pretty much right...

Land Rovers have a drum brake mounted at the back of the tranny... it is unlike the 'usual' parking brake system that uses a pull cable to tighten up the rear brakes. Pulling the Rover's parking brake lever up clamps the drum, keeping the drivetrain from turning.

What year is your Disco? If it's a '96-'99, you may very well need a TestBook to reset it (dealer only), or maybe an OBD-II might handle it... but, I'm not sure if it really would, being a tranny-light... haven't dealt w/ this before. If it's a '94-'95, you might try the reset-box under the passenger seat, but again, I don't know if it'll kill the tranny code.

It 'could' be that you have internal issues in your tranny now, and it needs attention.... hopefully not!

Good luck,

-L

By JCC on Saturday, December 01, 2001 - 09:28 pm: Edit

My disco is a 95 so could you give instructions on reseting? never looked under the passenger seat for anything

By JCC on Saturday, December 01, 2001 - 09:30 pm: Edit

Also, I had no idea that the parking brake had anything to do with the transmission. I thought that I had read in the owners manual to ride the Pbrake in the offroad section! I dunno?

By Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) on Saturday, December 01, 2001 - 11:28 pm: Edit

I don't have an earlier one, but my understanding is... there should be a box under the passenger seat with a sticker on it. This sticker is covering a small hole. Straighten out a paper-clip, and insert it into this hole (you should be able to poke it through the sticker). Inside the hole, there are two metal prongs... all you are trying to do is to touch the clip to both of the contacts at the same time to close the circuit.

This will reset check-engine codes. Since this isn't a "check-engine" light, it may very well have no effect.

I think that it would say to NOT use the parking brake while off-roading, if you go back and check it again....


Best o' luck!

-L

By Moe on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 11:37 am: Edit

Justin, I suggest changing the fluid for starters. Hope there's no permanent damage.

By cartner on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 12:17 pm: Edit

if you want to disconnect/erase your codes, just disconnect your battery for a minute. go back, reconnect, and do your radio code...no more diagnostic codes are on there after that.
OR> you can wait three thermostatic cycles of cold to hot to cold and it will automatically reset if there is no more problem.
cartner

By JCC on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 01:44 pm: Edit

I left the battery cable off for an hour then reconnected....no luck....light is still on! Checked tranny fluids...everything is fine...I even smelled the fluid and it didnt smell like it had been burning or anything...smelled like fresh tranny fluid. I think its completely related only to my parking brake. I would think that if the Tranny has been overheating it would have been slipping a little and the fluid would have smelled a little burnt! Nothing like that has happened yet! Any other ideas regarding resetting the light....I tried the red box under the seat and nothing happened!

Thanx everyone for your thoughtful insight!!!

Justin

By Robert Mann (Oldscout) on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 01:52 pm: Edit

Sounds like the ghost of Lord Lucas has come to visit.

Have you tried pulling the wire off the temp sender?

By JCC on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 02:52 pm: Edit

Nope, Havent tried that! Under the rover? General Location? Yeah man, Lucas is one heak of an S.O.B.! Everytime I wire up something new I get scared out of my wits that Lucas will rear his ugly head again!

Justin

By cartner on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 03:13 pm: Edit

maybe if you adjust the brake tensioner on the drum, I'm not sure how, but someone her surely is. that might help prevent it from happening again..maybe your brake isn't all the way down now? are you sure its up to level on fluid?

By JCC on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 03:29 pm: Edit

Yeah its level is perfect! IM sure its up. Dont feel a drag and the BRAKE dash light isnt on.

Justin

By Keith Armstrong on Monday, December 03, 2001 - 10:28 am: Edit

Hey guys,

My trans temp warning light came on 4 or 5 years ago. I was sure that it wasn't overheated (this is an automatic '94), and called the head tech at the dealership. He said that the sending units fail all the time and cause the light to come on. I unplugged it and drive on in happy bliss. Oh, the sender in an in-line unit below and to the rear of the air box on the '94 anyway. It just unplugs

By Ron Ward (Ronward) on Monday, December 03, 2001 - 10:45 am: Edit

Justin,

The temp sensor/ switch could be bad. I had one fail once and it caused the light to come on but nothing else. My mechanic replaced the switch (up in the lines near the tranny fluid cooler on a 1995 RR Classic)and performed the tranny fluid filter service. No problems since.

Ron Ward

By Shane C. (Qsiguy) on Wednesday, December 05, 2001 - 11:49 pm: Edit

Not that this will help the tranny thing but I thought i would explain the service timer under the seat. I read the tech section and I also thought I needed to stick a paper clip or something in the hole to push a button but that wouldn't work on my 95 Disco. I actually opened the timer box up (under the pass. seat) and the thing just inside the hole was just two pins that must need to be connected together. There wasn't any buttons in there so don't think that you are pushing a button when you stick something in there. A small flat head screwdriver would do the trick. The newer models may be different but I'd try to look in the hole to be sure.

By the way, that reset is only for the Service Engine light which comes on at timed intervals. Only way I know of to reset the Check Engine light (which comes on when something is wrong) is to pull the batt. cable. Never had any luck with the 3 hot/cold cycles.

If anyone was interested......

Shane
95 Disco

By Brett Barton (Brett) on Thursday, December 06, 2001 - 08:14 am: Edit

Actually, the dealer told me that to reset the check engine light, pull the EFI fuse under the hood and cycle the key. Do not try to start it. Then put the fuse back in and the light will be off.

Brett