| This week's car nuts
meeting's project was to remove the transfer case.
Peter Smothers (from the Jeep Forum) and
I talked on the phone about my problem.
It was discovered that the front drive out of the
transfer case turns freely, and that both shift rods at
the front of the case are even. This would say that the
case is in four wheel high (you should not be able to
turn the front drive shaft).
The rods cannot be shifted so that one is in and the
other is out (two wheel high). This indicates that there
is a problem inside the case (even if that is not the
problem with the rear wheels stuck).
Current the plan is to pull the case this weekend. (Not
hard at this point as the skid plate is already down)
This will give me a chance to 1) see if the output of
the transmission turns, 2) see what the problem is with
the transfer case, 3) clean all the gunk that is on the
case , frame, skid plate, etc, 4) Powder coat the plate
So we start with a Jeep that is slowly being taken
further and further apart, and started to take it
further apart
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I was not kidding when I said it was guncky under the
Jeep, It will get cleaned up |
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Got the case out and on the ground.
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Carried it
down to the basement and got it onto the workbench,
where the committee discussed the next step
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| It was discovered that
someone had been here before, just as we discovered with
the transmission. The rubber bushing that slides down on
top of the shift rods is in backwards and the steel
retaining washer that holds the ruber washer is missing |
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Took the
inspection plate off the bottom and could find nothing
wrong other the gears did not seem to be lined up
correctly (rear output yoke still would not turn, the
front one turned freely). We still could not get the
transfer case to shift between L4 N H2 and H4. We came
to the conclusion that the shift linkage itself was the
problem, that it was frozen in place by mud, rust, and
gunk. After struggling to get it apart, we were able to
free it up and get it to shift |
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| So parts have been ordered,
and some have been donated from members of the Jeep
Forum, time to start some Spring cleaning |
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| I know the case is steel and
should be black, but this will not become another
1970 SS El
Camino project. I do want to drive it
sometime this year. So.... the case will remain painted
dull Aluminum. I will add some black powder coat
accents, and I also powder coated the shift lever |
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| Work has also started on the
skid plate |
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