Transfer case woes!!!

[ramhunter9]

Your truck is telling you to DRIVE it more ...lol
Park the jeep for a while .

 

[RubberFrog]

This turned out to be a very helpful thread. Great info in here for anybody experiencing this in the future.

 

[Hammer_Z71]

It probably wouldn't be a bad idea for guys with trucks over about five years old (or who shift in/out of 4WD often) to crawl under and inspect those grommets from time to time. Since they are under $20 for the pair to replace and press right in (I'll let y'all know how easy they are to press in after monday). It would sure beat needing 4WD one day and finding out your shifter ain't workin' or unknowingly losing the assembly somewhere on the road.

Just my two cents.


Oh and Dave, I put about 8k a year on my truck, last I knew, you put about 3k on yours - Mr. "pot calling the kettle black", LOL...

 

[ramhunter9]

That was the old trucks

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[quietpeen]

that's great that you found the linkage.

 

[ramhunter9]

You better have taken her out to supper after that one .

 

[Hammer_Z71]

You better have taken her out to supper after that one .

I did one better, I cooked her supper...

 

[ramhunter9]

Oh ya ...... duh

 

[Hammer_Z71]

Just picked up my grommets! I'll be heading outside to install them and put my linkage back in here in a few.

I'd love to get a pic of the shifter and transfer case without and then with the linkage, but my suspension lift coupled with the driveshaft is very much in the way of any type of view. I dunno if I can get much more then the shifter side, I'm gonna have a hard enough time getting up to press the grommet on the transfer case side.

But here are the parts, including the linkage I picked up off the road:



and these little son's of ******* are the parts that are the key to being able to shift from 2WD to 4WD and back on a Ram:



I do have this pic that someone sent me when this whole thing started so I'd know what to look for on the road, as his truck is stock, it's easy to see the entire setup:

 

[Hammer_Z71]

Well once again I can thank someone who responded on another forum who recommended I use channel locks to press those grommets in place because I would have probably tried to press them in with my fingers and had a hell of a time. They literally popped right in.

It would have been a five minute install but on close inspection, that linkage shaft had a little bend in it and I stuck it in a vise to straighten it out. I guess it got run over in the road a time or two.

Truck shifts from 2WD right to 4HI & 4LO smooth as silk.

I reckon I can now chalk this up to a lesson learned...

 

[0212353]

awesome