Transfer Case Blues

[curtis]

Noticed a slight noise in my transfer case yesterday in 2wd. So I drained the oil and look what I found inside with alot of metal shavings.:oops::sad:



Any guesses before I remove the TC?

[6spdYJ]

The dime in there probably caused it.

[aw12345]

Terra lo blues eh. Either go back to stock or get a fancy shiny Atlas, you're going to end up with one of those anyway.
Looks like one of the roller bearings in it bit the dust.

[curtis]

I just happen to have one in the shed. Just need to swap the SYE over.

[curtis]

Can't get the front yoke nut off with my 3/4 impact. Got any ideas?

[dirtman13]

I've said it before. http://www.jbconversions.com/

Can't get the front yoke nut off with my 3/4 impact. Got any ideas?

I had to use a breaker bar and large pipe wrench on the yoke for my 60. It worked.

[aw12345]

Jam the gears by sticking it in low and high range or something like it. A good impact should buzz it right off. If you stuck red loctite on the nut, heat it a bit, either way heating the nut a bit will help

[brokenujoint]

Surprised that it's barely being noticed. I put that 2006 dime in there in, well,..... 2006..

[curtis]

Thanks Art the heat did it.Took out the bearing at the end of input shaft in the planetary gear





The planetary gears looks good except for the bearing race. and the input shaft (SYE) is not well.

Will take out the planetary gears tomorrow and see what's up.

[aw12345]

Check the bearings of the satellite gears carefully, that's the one thing that likes to fail due to unequal loading of the gears.
Atleast that's what failed on mine and Terra admitted that the unequal loading of those gears caused that

[curtis]

Well the tera low is off to teraflex for a complete rebuild. So do I sell it or keep it till it breaks again when I get it back?:confused2:doh

[aw12345]

Sell it, since they raised the new price of those things you might actually get close to what you paid for it and then spend some dough and get a pretty shiny Atlas and be ever so happy

[curtis]

Well after 2 days of some interesting conversations they are going to rebuild it for less than half what I paid for it 6 years ago at the pomona offroad show.

I have not owned an Atlas for over 15 years. Are they still noisy on the Hwy? That was the only thing I didn't like.

[inVERt'D]

Mine sure ain't noisy.

[Materdaddy]

My atlas seems a lot noisier than the NP231. Granted I'm comparing apples and oranges. I hear a lot more drivetrain noise (rolling marbles) in my new Jeep than I did in my old one. To me, it sounds like transmission or transfer case noise, and the transmissions are the same in both Jeeps, so I blame the transfer case.