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I believe it is Borg-Warner. NVG is out of business and Ford had simply been building licensed copies up through 2016.
For 2018, ESOF is standard on all trucks and you can opt for a no-cost manual floor shifter. But likely the manual lever is in the process of being phased out. I prefer the manual lever but dislike having to get out to lock the hubs.
If you do get the manual shifter with a locking rear axle, the normal ESOF **** will simply have two positions for lock and unlock, same as the old style trucks:
Time out. If it's not an actual lever, and just a lever moving a cable, I'd rather have ESOF.
I was certain my 2008 was a lever right into the top of the case. I had no idea new '17+ trucks had a cable linkage? Dodged a bullet there, I guess.
Take a look at the cable...same exact style as what puts your transmission in gear. How often does that fail? Ford used a metal linkage instead of a cable for many years, including two little rubber bushings that frequently failed. The metal rusted together. The cable still acts upon the same "arm style" lever on the side of the case. I think this will be a more reliable design.
My Mustang clutch is a cable. Master cylinder is all inside the transmission.
We're splitting hairs between the two. This is as good of an excuse to prefer the ESOF as any other. As long as we recommend to exercise the ESOF often enough. (every drive for me)
Can't be the same as the dodge xfer case. We haven't blown one up yet. The dodges are dropping like flys. LOlz.
One guy had his xfer case explode on the freeway. Actually sent shrapnel through the floor in half a dozen spots and lodged a good chunk of the case in the seat about where your jewels go. When the difference between 65mph and 80mph, is whether or not your jewels get chopped off when the xfer case explodes, that's not exactly a product I want.
(although it sounds like a cheap generic drive shaft is failing and taking the xfer cases out with it, the model years I find in Google include some dodges with the same xfer case as early SD's)
i never said it was identical to ram. but i wouldnt be a bit suprised if its a very similar version. shouldnt be difficult to find the answer if a person wanted to
havent heard anything about ram transfer case dropping like flys. a couple out of hundreds of thousands failed and that meens theyre dropping like flys ? got any links to you claims ?
theres 300pages here of '17+ superduties with every concievable problem you can imagine, and even some problems you would never think could happen. rampant death wobble on alot of these trucks, despite so many ford fan bois talking crap about ram... LOL. numerous rear axles failing in a ver short time
but dont take my word for it. just browse through the last 300pages. all kinds of problems
Yeah I know. Google "transfer case explosion" it's literally a wall of dodge threads and one abused jeep.
This guy loves Dodges so much he stopped in the middle of a freeway to kick around dodge parts. LOLz these guys are nuttier than Ashland Ohio dodge owners:
