20 Sep 07, 05:45 pm
Got the LJ back. New rear axle, new front carrier and gears. T-case seems to work right...finally.
Turns out the new t-case they put in in June was assembled at the plant with the wrong fork/cam combination (from some other application of NP241). The shift collar on the main shaft wasn't fully disengaging the drive gear. The week or so of driving it that way this summer with it intermittently binding gears on the highway was enough to fry the axles. So I'm going out on a limb here, but I think for the frist time since mid April, and after a little gear break-in, I have a fully functioning Jeep.
Turns out the new t-case they put in in June was assembled at the plant with the wrong fork/cam combination (from some other application of NP241). The shift collar on the main shaft wasn't fully disengaging the drive gear. The week or so of driving it that way this summer with it intermittently binding gears on the highway was enough to fry the axles. So I'm going out on a limb here, but I think for the frist time since mid April, and after a little gear break-in, I have a fully functioning Jeep.