On my 95 F150, You can hear and feel the transfer case engaging, but the truck does not go into 4 wheel drive. Any possible solutions?

 

Auto hub locks or manual? Is there a dial on each hub, or does it have a cover with AUTOMATIC 4x4 decals on it? I would check the hub lockouts first, especially if they're the auto ones.

When you put it in 4wd, does the front driveshaft turn? And does it stop turning when you go back to 2wd? If so then the transfer case is working and it's the hubs that ain't engaging.

 

I just bought this truck yesterday. So I'm not up to par on everything about this model, yet. It does have the automatic hubs. I was wondering if there might be a vacuum engage solenoid. If the automatic hubs are the problem, how can you figure out which one is the bad one?

 

Narrow it down first, put it in 4Hi and crawl under the truck (KOEO) and try to move the front shaft, if it spiins freely, you got some internal issues.

I personally despise auto hubs, they fail at the worst possible moments (like running from a girlfriends father through a field), find a set of OEM Man. hubs from the junker, soak em in gasoline overnight and spray em out with air, pack with grease and install.

If you need help in finding any, the local junker here is a playground of OBS fords.

Edit: When my T-case dropped on me, the light to the right of the steering wheel stopped illuminating, is yours?

 

I just brought this truck home yesterday. But, yes, the 4x4 indicator light, is coming on. The people, I bought the truck from, replaced the transmission. While doing it, he broke the 4wd shifter. He went back to the salvage yard and bought the one that was on the truck that he got the tranny from. Then (so he says), he had left the bracket that the shifter bolts to, on the core transmission. So, I don't even know what the missing piece looks like. I don't know anyone that has a truck like this, that I can look at. Can you buy a bracket, without buying the whole transfer case? I haven't crawled up under it yet, to see how he even has the shifter fastened to it. Inside the truck, I have to push down on the whole shifter, to get it to move. It will shift from 2Hi to 4Hi, but It won't go into 4 Lo. When I was messing around with it a little last night, as I said earlier, I can hear and feel the TC engaging.

 

Lol, and i just gave my spare linkage and bracket to a friend, on the drivers door look on the bottom of the sticker and tell me what the Trans. Code is, I'll help you get the part (with bolts) if you cannot find one near you.

Don't worry bout money, a few bucks won't hurt, a few members here have helped me the same before.

Still check if the front shaft is locked when you have it in 4WD.

 

Okay carolinaranger90. I will check the things out, that you mentioned. I am (was) a mechanic by trade, but, now I am a 100% Disabled Veteran. I am a little slow about things now, but, give me a little bit and I will get back with you.

 

First and foremost, allow me to thank you for your gratitude and sacrifice made for this country.

I can't see locations on my iPhone, if you aren't too far, I'll install it myself.

Take your time, I will await your reply!

 

Thank you for your support. It looks like you are 1/3 of the way across the continent from me. I'm from Southern WV. Okay, there is a bracket on the transmission for the transfer case shifter. It looked like it was the wrong one, because the bolt holes on the tranny, were wider than the bolt holes on the bracket. There was a bolt in the forward hole on the bracket, but the other bolt was just catching the back edge of the bracket. I put the truck in 4WD. It was rather difficult. Actually, the dash indicated that it was in Low Range. I raised the front of the truck, with the truck in D, and the front shaft did lock. Didn't seem like 2 Hi was locking the shaft, but that may have been because of the bracket. I then lowered the truck back down, and drove it in my yard, with it in Low range (I could tell that it was actually in Low Range as I drove it). The front axles did not engage, because I spun in the mud. It seems like the hubs aren't locked, but I guess I really need to start by acquiring the correct shift bracket. The Only sticker on the door (actually it isn't on the door, it's on the pillar) is the build date sticker. Other than the build date, and the tire sizes, the only other info on it is paint codes. It is a line on the bottom of the sticker, giving the paint codes to various parts on the truck. There is a code there for the transmission. It is U. My Transfer Case is a Borg Warner 13-56. And the salvage yard where the tranny was acquired, stated that the tranny came out of a 95. Same year as mine. I do know that there are 2 trannys for this model Ford. Mine is the 4R70W, not the E4OD.

 

I too had a '95 with the same trans code, if you can (i know you only have around 2-3inches of room) try to measure the distance between the bracket mount holes.

I should be in Cheyenne in a couple weeks (weather has been getting nasty on the mountain pass) and will pull one for you.

 

Brother, I so appreciate whatever you can do for me. I will get that measurement first thing in the morning. You just would not believe the long stroke of bad luck I've had for the last 3 years, with trying to put together, and keep, a good running truck. My recent failure was a very costly one (I'll give the full story later). A 1979 Ford F150 4X4 351M. A pretty good looking truck, completely camouflaging a complete truck overhaul. I literally sank over $6000 into that truck, and finally (to my wife's relief), I admitted defeat. And, taking a great loss, I traded that truck off, for this one.

 

Hey bud, how are ya today? I didn't remove the shifter bracket from the tail housing. I measured center to center on the bolt heads. The measurement is 3".

 

No worries at all, I help where I can, I got
your measuents, while I don't think they ran different brakets, I am not certain, yours could be tweaked a bit or whatever the case, Ill pull a few and whichever has the right measurements I will clean up and send your way (will PM you for an address when I have the part)

I will try to grab a few other things I know you may need over time as well.

 

I seen a shifter for a 95 F150 on Ebay. It looked like the one on my truck. All I can say, is that the bolt holes in my bracket, are narrower than the bolt holes in the bell housing. The guy I bought the truck from, put this transmission in this truck before I got it from them. That was the agreement when I bought it from them.When he took the bad transmission in for the core, he forgot the bracket on the tranny. He went back to the salvage yard to retrieve it, and they gave it to him. Maybe the Bronco tailhousing has a different bracket. I don't know exactly what model truck, the new tranny came out of. I know that 94 and 95 are the 2 transmissions that are compatible with each other. What would happen if the new tranny came out of a 96?

I'm also looking for a non A/C heater control. I broke the vacuum connecters on the back of mine when I was taking it out. I seen a pick of one that was with A/C. The only difference I could see was that the A/C one had 2 extra blade terminals on the electrical connector in the back. Would that one work on mine anyway?

Hey bud. I sent you a couple of private messages. Did you get them? What do you think? If you didn't get them, I'll copy and paste them on this feed.

 

The A/C controls are pretty universal between options, could assume its only got a plug whereas the one you need does not, compare the back ends to find out for sure.

I haven't gotten any messages, and I don't think there is any difference on a 96 transmission