this other post about the Shift stick that won't go out of Park reminded me of (one of) my other great paranoid fear(s): the locked locker!
I started developing this particular affliction when test driving prospective 80s. Namely, i could see myself trying out the lockers on the test drive and the thing not unlocking and me being either stuck in the boonies or having to drive the 80 back all locked up on the asphalt (nah! wouldn't do that...). Fortunately, never happened, but I got worried a couple of times during my test drives.
But anyways, I think it might save somebody's day -not to mention drivetrain- if some savvy advice might be given here about how to handle that potential situation.
So let's say that you are all locked up out there. You unlock the F/R with the switch and put it back in High and lo and behold your -say- front locker is stuck on Locked. You can tell cuz the steering is weird (I don't know if the light would show it or not - anybody knows?) I know the electric stuff may be telling it that it should unlock, but let's say it's rusty and it's in there good!
Now, what do we do after trying a million times to unlock it electrically?
Could somebody tell us what to do under there, what to remove and how? I can imagine the actuator or at least the propeller shaft (but that would not protect the front diff...)
The floor is yours!
thanks
Eric
(and -Junk- if there is good stuff here, that might be a good FAQ topic?)
I started developing this particular affliction when test driving prospective 80s. Namely, i could see myself trying out the lockers on the test drive and the thing not unlocking and me being either stuck in the boonies or having to drive the 80 back all locked up on the asphalt (nah! wouldn't do that...). Fortunately, never happened, but I got worried a couple of times during my test drives.
But anyways, I think it might save somebody's day -not to mention drivetrain- if some savvy advice might be given here about how to handle that potential situation.
So let's say that you are all locked up out there. You unlock the F/R with the switch and put it back in High and lo and behold your -say- front locker is stuck on Locked. You can tell cuz the steering is weird (I don't know if the light would show it or not - anybody knows?) I know the electric stuff may be telling it that it should unlock, but let's say it's rusty and it's in there good!
Now, what do we do after trying a million times to unlock it electrically?
Could somebody tell us what to do under there, what to remove and how? I can imagine the actuator or at least the propeller shaft (but that would not protect the front diff...)
The floor is yours!
thanks
Eric
(and -Junk- if there is good stuff here, that might be a good FAQ topic?)