[Cruiserdrew]

Originally Posted by CJF

I don't get this. You're acting like he pulled out the whole guts of the transfer case. Christo himself has conjectured that the VC was added primarily to control driveline slop and the infamous 91-92 clunkiness. The VC is NOT the center diff, which he still has.

Did you read my post just above yours?

Sorry for getting defensive,

Curtis
91FJ80, same TC as you but no VC.

Defensive?-it's just the internet. I've had this apart awhile ago, and what I remember is that the rear output shaft is coupled to the rest of the t-case by the VC. I totally understand that the center diff is still there.

It's been awhile, but there are 2 sets of splines on the VC, and the torque is coupled one way when open and another when the center diff is locked. What I am trying to impagine is how it is coupled at all with the VC out. I'll have to pay closer attention next time I'm in there to replace the output seal. It is not an intuative device like most things with gears and bearings.

If you have pics of the tail section of the 91 transfer case open, I would like to see them for comparison. I thought the VC was added due to the pecularities of the ABS system and to bias some torque to each axle in the setting of one axle wheel spin. I have never heard that it was added to control clunkiness. Maybe, though! It is an odd and poorly understood device in this application, at least by me.