Transfer Case -- To rebuild or not
#11
They must have had tiny gremlins operating their wrenches then, in order to get to the various bolts on the top of the case.
And they must have worked out some phasic mechanism to allow the t-case to pass through the chassis cross-member. The chassis bar is directly underneath the t-case, and there's not enough room to move the case back far enough to drop it.
You could probably get away without dropping the exhaust, but it would make it really hard to get to the mounts for the transmission/t-case. The exhaust is the simplest of these three things to deal with though.
Of course they removed the rear driveshaft -- both driveshafts are connected to the transfer case.
I dropped three transfer cases this past summer.
And they must have worked out some phasic mechanism to allow the t-case to pass through the chassis cross-member. The chassis bar is directly underneath the t-case, and there's not enough room to move the case back far enough to drop it.
You could probably get away without dropping the exhaust, but it would make it really hard to get to the mounts for the transmission/t-case. The exhaust is the simplest of these three things to deal with though.
Of course they removed the rear driveshaft -- both driveshafts are connected to the transfer case.
I dropped three transfer cases this past summer.
#12
They must have had tiny gremlins operating their wrenches then, in order to get to the various bolts on the top of the case.
And they must have worked out some phasic mechanism to allow the t-case to pass through the chassis cross-member. The chassis bar is directly underneath the t-case, and there's not enough room to move the case back far enough to drop it.
You could probably get away without dropping the exhaust, but it would make it really hard to get to the mounts for the transmission/t-case. The exhaust is the simplest of these three things to deal with though.
Of course they removed the rear driveshaft -- both driveshafts are connected to the transfer case.
I dropped three transfer cases this past summer.
And they must have worked out some phasic mechanism to allow the t-case to pass through the chassis cross-member. The chassis bar is directly underneath the t-case, and there's not enough room to move the case back far enough to drop it.
You could probably get away without dropping the exhaust, but it would make it really hard to get to the mounts for the transmission/t-case. The exhaust is the simplest of these three things to deal with though.
Of course they removed the rear driveshaft -- both driveshafts are connected to the transfer case.
I dropped three transfer cases this past summer.
Doing it yourself
#16
mollusc: I can force the lever to 4 low and move it over to engage the CDL but then getting it back into 4 high is challenging (and even has a bit of a gear-grinding sound to it). I'd love to be able to repair without dropping the transfer case as the leak isn't THAT bad. Can the cable be serviced from above (in the cabin)?
#18
You can service it from underneath:
- Get under the passenger side facing rearward at about the mid point of the passenger front door
- Look up and left you will see the cable mechanism
- Get a can of chain lubricant or good penetrating oil with a long straw
- Spray up there
- Then start your Disco
- Run through the gears
- Into neutral - wait a few seconds
- Into reverse you will feel the engagement
- back in to neutral and shift to low - these 3 steps unload the transfer case gears
- Drive a 100 metres or so
- Into neutral - wait a few seconds
- Into reverse you will feel the engagement
- back in to neutral and shift to low - these 3 steps unload the transfer case gears
- back to hi
- 3 or 4 times of gear engagement and disengagement this should loosen things up
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SRLong (04-25-2022)
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