General vehicle thread

[brutal]

Forget getting hit in the brain bucket weird? LOL.

[Irving]

I got into trouble for drinking that margarita.
I'm sure we could find a buyer for that pickup that's closer than New Mexico to save you the drive.

What needs doing on the tierods?

[hurley842002]

I got into trouble for drinking that margarita.
I'm sure we could find a buyer for that pickup that's closer than New Mexico to save you the drive.

What needs doing on the tierods?

Ha! I'm sure we could, considering he'll sell it to me for $2k, runs fine, and has good tires, just all cosmetic. Was perusing some online sights, and these pickups are being listed for upwards of $40k in pristine, just insane! Obviously his is a far cry from that, but I think he would prefer to keep it in the family as opposed to selling for a higher price.

Inner passenger is shot, but I just got both inners and outers to do a full replacement at once.

[Irving]

Update: The V-band doesn't leak, I just didn't have it lined up when I clamped it down. I think V-bands are known for leaking, so I want surprised, but I'm pretty happy that I did it correctly.

[rondog]

A friend of ours put some of that Blue Def stuff in her Silverado, but accidently put it in the fuel tank instead of wherever it's supposed to go.

Bad juju. Very bad juju. $15K worth of bad juju.

[whitewalrus]

A friend of ours put some of that Blue Def stuff in her Silverado, but accidently put it in the fuel tank instead of wherever it's supposed to go.

Bad juju. Very bad juju. $15K worth of bad juju.

Ouch didn?t think would be that much in damage!


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[00tec]

Ouch didn?t think would be that much in damage!


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Yeah, I could see it being irritating, but for $15k, someone got raked over the coals pretty good.

[Irving]

Here is the damage on the 4wd shaft.



The interference, and the noise, is coming from these teeth making contact.

[Irving]

Here's what happened. The first time when I had all three shafts out and was trying to juggle them all back together into the case, the 2wd-4wd hub clutch slipped all the way off the gear and the dog teeth shown in this diagram fell out. Well, one or two of them fell out. I didn't check their orientation before I removed the third one.


I looked at the spare case, but could only see a small edge of the dog teeth, using a mirror, and I determined the orientation from that. Well, I determined wrong and put them in backward. That caused them to somehow displace those internal snap rings you can see in the diagram and that was the strips of metal stuck to the drain plug magnet. Without those snap rings in place, the gear had enough play to cause the teeth to chatter together like you hear in the video. Thank goodness I still have that extra case because I was able to just take that entire 4wd shaft out of the spare case and put it into mine. In a record time repair (for me), I was able to pull the case, crack it open, figure out the issue, pull everything apart, and get it all back together, and installed in just one day. That is an absolute miracle for me. It once took me three days to replace a single seal.

Anyway, I've got about 50-60 miles on it with no bad sounds (that weren't there before anyway). A couple more trips around town and I'll drain and refill the t-case fluid again. Thanks for following along.

Oh yeah, I didn't know about this picture in the manual that I have. The guy helping me on the Isuzu board said he thought I installed them wrong, and by the time he posted that picture I was way past that so I just kept going. Lesson learned.

[Irving]

So I got my transfer case all buttoned up, the clutch replaced, and finished the exhaust from the collector back. I had test driven around town a few times with all the shifter boots off and a hole through to the ground. Everything was fine as far as I could tell. When I finally got everything buttoned up (I had to modify my shifter due to the 1" body lift), I was excited to take it out and hear how the exhaust sounded without a hole in the floor. I drove my kid to school (1.5 mile round trip) and there was a noise. Not a good one. I'll spare you the trouble shooting and just get down to what it was.

This is the transfer case spinning with the transmission in neutral and the clutch engaged.


Here is the transfer case spinning with the transmission in fifth gear and the clutch engaged.


Not what you want to see when you drain the oil.