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Since I'm now engineless for the time being, I decided to press on and inspect the transmission and transfercase. They didn't leak too badly when pulled, and aside from being a little whiny at higher RPM, functioned fine, but this seemed like the perfect opportunity to clean them up, and check out the output shaft on the transmission.
I started at the speedo housing. I have some drilling to do... When I pulled the parking brake, I was already at 3 bolts - guess I figured out what happened to the 4th one...
I'll need to decide if I want to do the "Mudrak" double speedo seal mode while this is out. I didn't have a problem with it leaking prior - but it seems like relatively cheap insurance, and looks like something you can do with a 1/4in reamer in a drill press.
Speedo gear is still intact. Good news!
This case was re-sealed and installed by a local shop back before I had the shop or the knowledge to fool around with such things. The truck came with a grenaded transfercase, this one was the replacement. The shop had a lot of trouble getting it to seal, and finally did away with the paper gaskets for permatex. He clearly didn't scrimp, and even so, I still had a very slow leak from somewhere. Now have a big, rubbery mess to clean up. It's even on the bearing face...
Next I popped the side cover to get at the bolts holding the trans and transfer case together:
Then the outer bolts - the one pictured was already scarily loose:
One thing I did notice was that even with the transmission in neutral, the transfercase would still spin slightly when I moved the transmission input shaft. I imagine with no load, there may just be enough drag on the idler shaft to cause them to move slowly. If I grab on of the transfercase shafts and hold it still, the transmission spins freely and the transfercase stays in place.
I started at the speedo housing. I have some drilling to do... When I pulled the parking brake, I was already at 3 bolts - guess I figured out what happened to the 4th one...
I'll need to decide if I want to do the "Mudrak" double speedo seal mode while this is out. I didn't have a problem with it leaking prior - but it seems like relatively cheap insurance, and looks like something you can do with a 1/4in reamer in a drill press.
Speedo gear is still intact. Good news!
This case was re-sealed and installed by a local shop back before I had the shop or the knowledge to fool around with such things. The truck came with a grenaded transfercase, this one was the replacement. The shop had a lot of trouble getting it to seal, and finally did away with the paper gaskets for permatex. He clearly didn't scrimp, and even so, I still had a very slow leak from somewhere. Now have a big, rubbery mess to clean up. It's even on the bearing face...
Next I popped the side cover to get at the bolts holding the trans and transfer case together:
Then the outer bolts - the one pictured was already scarily loose:
One thing I did notice was that even with the transmission in neutral, the transfercase would still spin slightly when I moved the transmission input shaft. I imagine with no load, there may just be enough drag on the idler shaft to cause them to move slowly. If I grab on of the transfercase shafts and hold it still, the transmission spins freely and the transfercase stays in place.