Cable810 wrote:And I managed to blow up my disco tonight....
How did it fail? Did you have the sleeve? I'd like to learn more about your experience.
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How did it fail? Did you have the sleeve? I'd like to learn more about your experience.
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No I don't have the sleeve. If I had the sleeve I don't think it would ever have happened. Anyhow since I've rebuilt it I've rolled into 4wd and let the vehicle help shift it while keeping speeds under 5mph. Not just stop and engage and then roll. Well I made it a fair ways in 2wd before having to put it in 4. I then had to go up the slightest incline. My front tires made it to the top and my back tires were just caked with mud and couldn't get traction. I wasn't able to let the vehicle roll into 4. I was stopped, engaged, gave it some gas and POP not once but twice. I'm pretty certain that the fork is broke.
After it went pop twice I had no 4wd. Only my back tires would move.
After it went pop twice I had no 4wd. Only my back tires would move.
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get the sleeve call it a day.Cable810 wrote:No I don't have the sleeve. If I had the sleeve I don't think it would ever have happened. Anyhow since I've rebuilt it I've rolled into 4wd and let the vehicle help shift it while keeping speeds under 5mph. Not just stop and engage and then roll. Well I made it a fair ways in 2wd before having to put it in 4. I then had to go up the slightest incline. My front tires made it to the top and my back tires were just caked with mud and couldn't get traction. I wasn't able to let the vehicle roll into 4. I was stopped, engaged, gave it some gas and POP not once but twice. I'm pretty certain that the fork is broke.
After it went pop twice I had no 4wd. Only my back tires would move.
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or weld the sleeve the fork sits on onto the gears.
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agreedv7guy wrote:or weld the sleeve the fork sits on onto the gears.
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Yeah I could do that. We'll see what happens. Its going into storage soon anyhow.
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v7guy wrote:or weld the sleeve the fork sits on onto the gears.
Yea like this.
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This storage thing confuses me.
Yeah, if you had rolled into 4hi, you might have saved it. If you cannot roll into it during engagement, the best thing to do is to turn your steering wheel left and right at least a turn, then start real slow and give the gears time to engage. If the front gears don't fully engage and then you romp on it, you'll just round off the teeth or break the collar. I doubt you just broke the fork, but that's just my opinion.
Yeah, if you had rolled into 4hi, you might have saved it. If you cannot roll into it during engagement, the best thing to do is to turn your steering wheel left and right at least a turn, then start real slow and give the gears time to engage. If the front gears don't fully engage and then you romp on it, you'll just round off the teeth or break the collar. I doubt you just broke the fork, but that's just my opinion.
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Thinking his Tb is not his winter vehicle..Trail X wrote:This storage thing confuses me.
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What would make a better one, other than a tracked vehicle?
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James I bdidnt romp on it i simply eased on thr gas. I put it up every winter... So it doesn't matter anyway.
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Why do you put it up every winter? It just doesn't make sense to me, so I want to understand. Do you have another vehicle that is a better winter vehicle?
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Yeah a 2003 Buick lesabre!!! The body on my TB is really good and I want to keep it that way! Plus I don't drive much in winter other than to and from work.
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Oh, so its a road salt thing? Not a 4WD thing? Interesting, I would have never thought of that, especially choosing a 2WD as a winter vehicle.
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Pretty much. They just dump the salt on the road. With driving 45 minutes to work @ 17 mpg vs 30mpg...
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I only "need" my truck 2-4 days a year in the winter cause of weather. My FWD car does great w double mpg. They use a brine round these parts and I don't mind keeping it off the truck either.
they've always worked for me.
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