Well, I finally have an update on mine. Finally.
Ran great for 3 solid years, getting me to and from TX, to and from Rubicon twice, a couple of SNT's and plenty of desert wheeling in between. Then all of a sudden on the way to last year's SNT, wham, it shifted out of hi on a freeway transition. One time.
Got to SNT and things rapidly deteriorated. Limped out of the dunes Sat and had to put a motorcycle tie down on the hi-lo arm of the t-case to get home. I drove it ONCE since then, in July, just to work and back. Popped twice, even with the strap.
So now, A YEAR LATER, I finally took the time to drop the case to find out what the heck happened. Drained the oil, which looked just as silvery as everybody elses, so no particular worry there. Looked inside the top cover and everything LOOKED normal, so I figured I was gonna have to disassemble the whole thing to get a better look.
Started with the hi-lo fork, and when I got it out..........WOW! it was ground over half way thru the fork!
Calico Kid took some pics with his camera phone, and should be forwarding them soon enough.
AA was kind enough to ship down a replacement fork last year when I told them of the problem. I guess they had a hunch.
What gets me here is that I've spent the last year thinking that I might have to massage the detent points on the shift rail, thinking that a slightly outboarded detent on the hi-range side would have caused some kind of shock loading on the shift collar. But now that I've seen the fork, I'm thinking that the progressive grinding down of the fork would have relieved that particular shock loading long before it got to this point.
Got to do some more ciphering.
