What the heck is up here?
#1
10-24-2005, 05:41 PM
What the heck is up here?
Well, this weekend i changed my transfercase oil. man that crap was brown, probably never changed before. 
i has an extra 2.5 qts sitting on the shelf, so i decided to do my dad's dually while i was at it. i took out the top fill plug, as a vent for when i take out the lower one. but to my surprise, oil came out of the top plug...
a significant amount too, considering it only holds 2.5 qts. i sat back and reasoned this for a moment. i noticed how there was no other fill holes, and how the heck did the guy at the plant get more than that into it, unless he filled it on a bench?
i has an extra 2.5 qts sitting on the shelf, so i decided to do my dad's dually while i was at it. i took out the top fill plug, as a vent for when i take out the lower one. but to my surprise, oil came out of the top plug...
a significant amount too, considering it only holds 2.5 qts. i sat back and reasoned this for a moment. i noticed how there was no other fill holes, and how the heck did the guy at the plant get more than that into it, unless he filled it on a bench?
#4
10-24-2005, 06:05 PM
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Are they the same transfer case for a six-speed and automatic?
Reason that I am asking is I recently had my transfer case out of the truck for rebuilding and the two are separated by a spline shaft with two seals at both ends.
Any fluid that would have leaked past the transmission seal would have leaked out between the halves long before it would have made it's way into the transfer case.
But then that makes it all the more mysterious on how your transfer case got overfilled.
I have no advice to offer in this matter, just the thought that it would very improbable for transmission fluid to work it's way into the transfer case from what I have been able to observe.
Reason that I am asking is I recently had my transfer case out of the truck for rebuilding and the two are separated by a spline shaft with two seals at both ends.
Any fluid that would have leaked past the transmission seal would have leaked out between the halves long before it would have made it's way into the transfer case.
But then that makes it all the more mysterious on how your transfer case got overfilled.
I have no advice to offer in this matter, just the thought that it would very improbable for transmission fluid to work it's way into the transfer case from what I have been able to observe.
#5
10-24-2005, 07:30 PM
Originally Posted by Kwikkordead
Are they the same transfer case for a six-speed and automatic?
Reason that I am asking is I recently had my transfer case out of the truck for rebuilding and the two are separated by a spline shaft with two seals at both ends.
Any fluid that would have leaked past the transmission seal would have leaked out between the halves long before it would have made it's way into the transfer case.
But then that makes it all the more mysterious on how your transfer case got overfilled.
I have no advice to offer in this matter, just the thought that it would very improbable for transmission fluid to work it's way into the transfer case from what I have been able to observe.
Reason that I am asking is I recently had my transfer case out of the truck for rebuilding and the two are separated by a spline shaft with two seals at both ends.
Any fluid that would have leaked past the transmission seal would have leaked out between the halves long before it would have made it's way into the transfer case.
But then that makes it all the more mysterious on how your transfer case got overfilled.
I have no advice to offer in this matter, just the thought that it would very improbable for transmission fluid to work it's way into the transfer case from what I have been able to observe.
Suspect someone at the plant got a little carried away when they filled the unit.
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10-24-2005, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by cookie88
Consider yourselves lucky. I remember talking to a guy a few years ago that was having the t-case on his brand new truck replaced under warranty because it didn't get filled at the factory.
Turn into a grenade with about 500 miles on the ticker.
Turn into a grenade with about 500 miles on the ticker.
ughh...! stories like that make the hair on my neck curl...!
#9
10-24-2005, 08:34 PM
That's why I love Fords.....
Chevys use one seal on the transfer case input to seal out auto trans juice. The adapter housing has ATF in it from the transmission all the time. Once that one seal goes out, say bye bye to your AUTO t-case (that's supposed to have "Autotrac" fluid in it.
Cody
Chevys use one seal on the transfer case input to seal out auto trans juice. The adapter housing has ATF in it from the transmission all the time. Once that one seal goes out, say bye bye to your AUTO t-case (that's supposed to have "Autotrac" fluid in it.
Cody
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10-25-2005, 03:55 PM
#11
10-25-2005, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Uncle Knuckle
Check the breather on the t-case and the tranny. If they share the same breather hose, (nifty cost saving idea), separate them. The trans fluid has been known to "boil up" and over into the t-case.
That has to be the way they are getting overfilled.
#12
10-25-2005, 04:57 PM
the transfercase takes ATF right? 
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10-25-2005, 05:41 PM
