by Regulator1175 » Tue Jan 01, 2013 12:08 am
Here is the update for today. I got the front diff out, opened it up, and everything looked good. Gears were all intact and the wear pattern looked really good. Opened up the spline disconnect again, everything looked ok, but I am sleeving it anyway so I gutted it and put the sleeve in. I reassembled everything hoping that it was just the fork that was tweaked a bit and figured I would try it out and see if everything was functional. If not my last option is to swap out transfer cases. Good thing I have a spare in the garage.
Now for the bad news. I got everything reassembled and ready for fluids. This is were I found out that the fill plug was completely seized. I hit it with the impact, breaker bar, breaker bar with 6ft pipe on it and using heat on the transfer case through all of this, my only outcome was completely rounding out the bolt. I then tried to drill it out in a couple places to see if I could break it while saving the threads. I gave up on this idea after the first hole and it was looking helpless.
I decided that there was only one remaining solution, time to tear it all back down again. After an 8 hour day in the garage I am right back to where I started this morning. I am now ready to raise the engine and remove the front diff and drop the other one in.
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