Yes, you read that correctly; her Jeep JK apparently harbors some sort of ill will toward my Cruiser.
I had cleaned up and masked off my 3-spd transmission to prime and paint quite awhile back while I did a bunch of other work on the 40. I finally got around to painting it on Saturday and had left it top-side down (without the shift cover installed) on some particle board to dry in the driveway. I'm under the Cruiser, about a half hour later, when I hear a thunk in the driveway and I peer to the side to see my wife driving off (she said afterward that she thought she went off the curb).
I realized immediately what had happened and I surveyed the crime scene. She obviously had driven over the input shaft, as the smooth portion that sits in the pilot bearing put a hole in the 0.5" particle board clear through to the concrete driveway. However, the surface hadn't been dinged up at all. The case had a couple marks on it, but no cracks. Both the input and output shafts seem ok as there's no side-to-side play.
So the point of the post (other than providing a dumb story)...
The item that concerns me is that the output shaft has about a half inch of play where it can be slid back and forth in the case. But it could have been this way previously, I just can't recall. With it pulled back, I can freely turn the input shaft without the rear engaging. With it pushed in, it moves with the input shaft. That bearing (?) and its c-clip ride up against the transfer case once they're bolted together anyway, so there's nowhere for it to move once installed, so I think that's how it was to begin with. I wanted to check with the masses if this was normal before I put it all back together though. Thanks!
I had cleaned up and masked off my 3-spd transmission to prime and paint quite awhile back while I did a bunch of other work on the 40. I finally got around to painting it on Saturday and had left it top-side down (without the shift cover installed) on some particle board to dry in the driveway. I'm under the Cruiser, about a half hour later, when I hear a thunk in the driveway and I peer to the side to see my wife driving off (she said afterward that she thought she went off the curb).
I realized immediately what had happened and I surveyed the crime scene. She obviously had driven over the input shaft, as the smooth portion that sits in the pilot bearing put a hole in the 0.5" particle board clear through to the concrete driveway. However, the surface hadn't been dinged up at all. The case had a couple marks on it, but no cracks. Both the input and output shafts seem ok as there's no side-to-side play.
So the point of the post (other than providing a dumb story)...
The item that concerns me is that the output shaft has about a half inch of play where it can be slid back and forth in the case. But it could have been this way previously, I just can't recall. With it pulled back, I can freely turn the input shaft without the rear engaging. With it pushed in, it moves with the input shaft. That bearing (?) and its c-clip ride up against the transfer case once they're bolted together anyway, so there's nowhere for it to move once installed, so I think that's how it was to begin with. I wanted to check with the masses if this was normal before I put it all back together though. Thanks!
