Hi all.
About to take delivery of a D2a. The previous owner tells m the front bearing in the transfer box needs replacing....little bit of slop an a whine.
He tells be it is a straight fwd job, about an hour and no need to remove the box from the vehicle.
I have watched a few videos. The rear bearing looks as he describes (very easy and straight forward)....but the removal of the front is not entirely clear.....and I suspect might be a bit more involved.
Could someone please advise and perhaps point me to a decent video.

And/or a decent (online) manual.....will likely need one now!!

TIA

 

Download the factory manual (RAVE) from sticky at the top of the forum. I have not heard that one bearing wears out before the others, that would seem unusual in my view.

 

@buggame Before going through all that drain and replace the fluid transfer case and diff oil with a good quality gear oil. Then grease the driveshafts. The bearings do go, but whine and slop is usually oil and dry drive shafts.

 

OK. The plan was to drop all fluids (except perhaps the transfer case) and replace. Grease all shafts. Will see if that makes a difference. Am yet so see just how much movement there is. Dunno. Just getting prepared.

Is there an easy way of dropping the grease out of the swivels??

 

Get yourself a copy of the RAVE before you start changing fluids. The fill procedure for the autobox is a little unusual.
No reason not to change the t-case fluid.

 

Thanks. I have done a bunch of searches for the RAVE manual......cant for the life of me find it!! Maybe its staring me in the face!!
Would you mind adding a link?
Cheers

 

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