Ok so I have a 1996 f-250 super duty with the 7.3 and a 5 spd tranny. while installing my south bend clutch this past weekend I managed to break the cast aluminuim transfer case linkage, the part that connects the in-cab shifter to the transfer case. does anyone have any ideas on a better fix then cast aluminum?? i priced one out and its dealer only for about $350.

any ideas on making a better stronger piece?? or am a just going to have to replace it with a new one from the dealer??

 

Have you tried to find one at the scrap yards, you might save a bunch

 

Are you talking about the piece from the linkage to the TC? Mines a different year and different TC, but it's a piece of steel about 1/8' X 1/2" X 12' or so...

If you're talking about the bottom of the shifter, then a junkyard find would be better.

 

according to dealers ford only used that design for 3 years, 1995 super duty-1997 super duty. so might be hard to find one. Ive e-mail a few peeps from e-bay but no reply's yet.

 

nope mine is cast aluminum and has a spring inside a cyclinder that you have to push down to shift between 2x4 and 4x4hi 4x4 low

 

That sounds like my 92...are you sure about the years used in

 

just going by what the dealer said

 

That's roughly what I was quoted for mine. The PO had removed it and lost it before I bought the truck...I later found it under the seat!

 

I would call around to different scrap yards to find one, those guys are real sharp at knowing such things. Take your old one off, bring it with you. What you have is the same as mine, and like I said its a 92.

 

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/9...5-linkage.html

Does it look something like the one pictured in this thread?

 

I'm kinda sure that he has this one, but maybe not. It's a spring loaded cylinder design, used on my 92...so they could be easy to find:

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/9...ml#post8891307

 

Yup, slip ford man. That's it, it broke off right where the in-cab shifter hooks up and also at the bottom under that rubber boot.