Transfer case just exploded!!!
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JK Freak
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Hoping you are right!! Guy is a good guy and came out to the highway where I was stranded and waited with me till AAA got there to pick up my jeep. He also followed it back to his shop where it currently is right now. He was just as dumb-founded as I was about it. He has been in the business a long time and has never seen this before.
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Would something like that happen quickly or after a while?
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JK Freak
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i totally disagree. i have personally seen MANY transfercases break and ALL have been due to drive shaft failures.
can you post any pics? can you tell me if the accordian looking black boot on your rear drive shaft was torn? also, can you verify that the break happend at the rear pinion cv joint and NOT the pinion "gear" which would be inside your differential and impossible to see unless you opened up your pumpkin?
can you post any pics? can you tell me if the accordian looking black boot on your rear drive shaft was torn? also, can you verify that the break happend at the rear pinion cv joint and NOT the pinion "gear" which would be inside your differential and impossible to see unless you opened up your pumpkin?
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JK Junkie
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So I go to pick up my jeep after having 5:13 gears put in and get on the highway to head back home and BAM!! Jeep was tacking 3000 rpm going 70 in 6th gear. Transfer case is cracked wide open down the canter. It sheared the rear pinion gear so my DS is dangling. Front DS is still intact. WTH happened here?! Some info: stock DS's and fixed CA's. Other info in my signature. I'm guessing the gearing was too much? Should have gone with 4:56 or 4:88 maybe? Jeep does and will be driven on highway. Any help is appreciated.
Sorry to hear about the problems - did they give you any ring and pinion break in procedures?
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JK Freak
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Originally Posted by BKGM Jeepers
Gear ratio has nothing to do with T-case failure - UNLESS they installed different ratio gears in the front and rear. This is by far the most common cause of a T-case failure. It is too much of coinsedence here. Another option is that you failed to break in the gears (I was told "starts and stops with cool downs for 300 miles and nothing over 65"). Going 70 right off the bat could have caused warpage in the ring gear and then for it to lock up, causing the DL and subsequent T-case failures.
Sorry to hear about the problems - did they give you any ring and pinion break in procedures?
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Hoping you are right!! Guy is a good guy and came out to the highway where I was stranded and waited with me till AAA got there to pick up my jeep. He also followed it back to his shop where it currently is right now. He was just as dumb-founded as I was about it. He has been in the business a long time and has never seen this before.
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is it safe to assume this was because one of the clamps had gotten damaged or torn off? also, how long were they exposed like that?
and confusing
