Something not fun to find out, that your 4x4 doesn't engage and you don't know it when you try to transverse something impossible in a 4x2 and hard but very possible in a 4x4. I definatly was not too "thrilled" when I don't feel the front tires pulling and I'm now stuck in a place where 4 wheel drive woulda pulled right out. Do ya'll know how small I felt when my best friend's Jeep had to pull me out? Arrrrrg......the case is full of a half and half mix of SAE30 and Mercon ATF. I looked under it tonight and it looks like I need to tighten up some stuff and to get a new bushing where the 4x4 shifter pivots on the transmission. Oh well, I'm gonna love the day I get to pull him out.

 

Before I go off-road I go to an empty field, crank the wheel to the left, stick my head out, and spin the wheels to make sure the 4x4 is working and flinging.

 

The ting about it is that the 4x4 worked 2 days beforehand flawlessly. I guess something worked it's way loose....oh well, time to go check it out.

 

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 08-Sep-02 AT 10:25 PM (EST)]I know where your coming from . Long ago I used to own a 92 Chevy 4x4 and had the tranny rebuilt at a GM dealer here in town and when they re-installed the tranny/Tcase they forgot to hook up the wiring connector that activates the vacuum lock on the front axle . When I got the truck back , same day my buddy calls me on his cell. and is stuck in his Jeep in one of the worst situations you can imagine . Well I`m off to the rescue ( at night ) and get there and shift into 4x4 and NO 4X4 !!!! Of course this happened in the first big mud pit . Now we are both stuck . It would take 5 pages of writing to explain the rest of the evening . Next day I drove back to the GM dealer to complain and the new tranny went out on me , not even 50 miles on the rebuilt !!! I was so freakin mad when I got there with the tow truck you could hear me yelling a mile away . Got tranny number 2 installed and sold the thing . Last time I ever drove and owned a CHEV Truck! And you know the service manager had the extreme ***** to try and charge me an hours labor for doing a diagnostic on the front axle to check the vacuum actuator for faults AFTER I told him one of his guys forgot to hook up the leads that actuated the front diff. Thanks for letting me vent , that experience still makes a little ticked , if ya can tell


Jeff