Loose Ends with My Transfer Rebuild (1 Viewer)

[Gerrha]

I am about 80% done with a rebuild of my 97 LC transfer case and I don't want to leave any loose ends. I have come up with two questions that I can't seem to find answers to on my own. I hope someone here can please help out. Here they are.

1. There are six bolts that attach the front extension housing to the front case. On one of those bolts, there is a small bracket for an electrical cable. I forgot to take a good photo of this area during disassembly, but I think it is the bracket in the photo below. Can anyone please confirm this? Also, I cannot find any reference to it in any manual or part diagram, so might someone have a part number for it?

2. I also lost track of the magnet, which I think is located in the front case. I know the part number 33449-60010, but I cannot find an image of what it looks like or any reference to where it goes in the front case. Can someone please help with this?

Thanks!

 

[NeverFinis]

I believe that bracket holds the wiring harness for the speed sensor.

 

[Gerrha]

Thanks! Can you confirm that the bracket shown is the only bracket attached to the front extension housing? Might you also know the part number?

 

[NeverFinis]

I think this is the bracket. It is attached to the bottom.

There are other brackets on the front top, and on the rear top.

Different angle

These maybe the brackets

 

[NeverFinis]

Found a better pic of the wiring clamps

My guess, 8271160250

 

[jeffro109]

Did you sort this out? I just finished regearing a TC and can snap a picture of exactly where these two brackets go on reassembly...I got one wrong and had to correct so just saying top/bottom doesn't always work out.

 

[Gerrha]

Regarding the bracket, I am pretty happy with what NeverFinis sent. Thanks for that. The whole bracket thing started while watching Georg's Valley Hybrids 4-part Youtube series on the HF2AB rebuild. In that video, the bracket on his front extension housing is different from the bracket on mine and also different from the one in NeverFinis'a photo. That caused me confusion, but it seems Toyota must have used two different versions of that bracket over the years. OK, fine.

I will say that Toyota's documentation for brackets is not the best, but I guess it does not matter so much since most of them are NLA.

But I have not yet solved the second question in my post regarding the transfer case magnet. I don't know what it looks like, and I cannot find a magnet in my parts, which is worrying. Also, I don't see any documentation for where it goes in the case if I do find it.

 

[jeffro109]

I did not see a magnet in my work. The drain plug might have a magnet in it, I don't recall. There was not a magnet in the housing similar to the transmission pan which has little magnets for example.

 

[Gerrha]

I was going off the parts diagram for the transfer. If you look below, it is labeled as part 33449D, which translates into part number 33449-60010 and is described as, magnet for transfer case. It appears rectangular. Other than this, I cannot find a reference for it.

 

[jeffro109]

I’m not convinced that there is a magnet. Maybe it is somewhere that never came out during my work though but really almost every bolt was out during the regearing.

This is from the 1996 service manual and does not seem to show a magnet. Perhaps a parts guru can chime in about that part number.

 

[NeverFinis]

It could be inside the circled metal box? The part near it is called "Oil Receiver".

 

[NeverFinis]

George shows it, and it doesn't appear to have the magnet in it.

Maybe they did have a magnet there at one point...

 

[Gerrha]

I also had every single nut, bolt, snap ring, gear, bearing, etc out of my transfer and cleaned everything at least 4-5 times including that small oil receiver part in the photo above. I did not see a magnet anywhere, but that is why I posted thinking maybe I lost it. There are very few non-moving steel parts in the entire unit, so who knows?

If you look at this previous thread, the original poster talks about finding metal around the transfer case plug magnet. That would give you the idea the magnet is located in one of the plugs, but that is not consistent with the part number and image from the above parts diagram. In addition, none of my plugs, which are new OEM, have a magnet in them.

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[Gerrha]

Problem Solved!

OK, what I wrote above is wrong - disregard. I just went out and fished through my junk parts and found my old transfer case drain plug and guess what?!? It has a small magnet on the end... So, I went and found my new drain plug and it too has a magnet on the end... See the photo below.

The parts diagram is wrong and who knows what part number 33449-60010 actually is.

Thanks for all your help everyone!