Author Topic: 4x4 problems (Read 3828 times)

BLACKDOG · « **on:** Oct 21, 2004, 08:25:18 PM »

:help:decided to go 4 wheeling earlier. 4x4 decided to go out on me

i heard a really loud pop from the front end, and then sounded like a scraping/grinding sound when I was in 4x4. Had a friend check it out, and even when I am in 4 wheel drive, I'm not.

I dont want to take it apart until I know what I am getting into. I have a feeling I broke the ring gear, but I am not sure. Truck runs fine in 2 wheel, no problems at all but now as soon as I lock up the hubs, the truck wont move. Almost like something is wedged in the gears.

Any Ideas??

BigMike · « **Reply #1 on:** Oct 21, 2004, 08:28:43 PM »

$10 says you had your tires turned when it happened.

Is this IFS or live axle?

Hyena · « **Reply #2 on:** Oct 21, 2004, 08:30:23 PM »

It's got to be either the hubs or the ring&pinion. Do you have stock gears?

BigMike · « **Reply #3 on:** Oct 21, 2004, 08:31:17 PM »

birfs go long before hubs and diffs

BLACKDOG · « **Reply #4 on:** Oct 21, 2004, 08:34:32 PM »

IFS with 5.29 gears. I was actually going striaght at the time

Mike D · « **Reply #5 on:** Oct 21, 2004, 08:47:20 PM »

IFS there ya go $:-\$ \ could have been the inner axle shaft.

BLACKDOG · « **Reply #6 on:** Oct 21, 2004, 09:15:08 PM »

how bad is that?? and how easy is it to fix (i live in an apartment complex w/o a complete set of tools

)

Mike D · « **Reply #7 on:** Oct 21, 2004, 09:19:05 PM »

thats a lot of work and you need a full set of tools

BLACKDOG · « **Reply #8 on:** Oct 21, 2004, 09:25:33 PM »

Mike D · « **Reply #9 on:** Oct 21, 2004, 09:26:17 PM »

well then hopefully it isn't that

BLACKDOG · « **Reply #10 on:** Oct 21, 2004, 09:27:55 PM »

Anyway I can figure out what it is for sure without taking it completey apart?? I cant be without my DD for more than a weekend

Mike D · « **Reply #11 on:** Oct 21, 2004, 09:29:38 PM »

yikes but yeah an axle shft can be done in a day if you have the right tools and parts

Prismo · « **Reply #12 on:** Oct 21, 2004, 09:58:20 PM »

Put the front on jack stands, spin front driveshaft. Listen for unusual sounds while spinning the front driveshaft. Lock in 1 hub, spin driveshaft, now the other one. It helps to have the truck in nuetral when doing this test. Check the play at the flanges, diff & transfer case.

79coyotefrg · « **Reply #13 on:** Oct 22, 2004, 06:10:33 PM »

Quote from: blackdog on Oct 21, 2004, 08:34:32 PM

IFS with 5.29 gears. I was actually going striaght at the time

on pavement ? on rocks??

79coyotefrg · « **Reply #14 on:** Oct 22, 2004, 06:14:14 PM »

maybe a pinion gear snaped off,

UNBREAKABLE · « **Reply #15 on:** Oct 22, 2004, 06:26:10 PM »

I've got an idea. Say

to that damn IFS and put in a solid axle.

BLACKDOG · « **Reply #16 on:** Oct 22, 2004, 06:34:22 PM »

I would really like to do a SAS. However for someone with NO money, it is out of the question right now. I have a total of like 150 right now. And I have bad news. I drained my front diff earlier, and I got small chunks of metal falling out of the hole

I'm assuming gears?? also, when I stuck my finger in the hole, it felt almost like i was sticking my finger into the center hole of a bearing. Is there one in there that could have fallen over the drain hole??
I am completely lost right now. can ya'll help me out??

rockhound · « **Reply #17 on:** Oct 22, 2004, 10:56:17 PM »

Don't IFS have a steel diff cover bolted to the diff housing?

Mike D · « **Reply #18 on:** Oct 22, 2004, 11:14:39 PM »

the cover is aluminum

79coyotefrg · « **Reply #19 on:** Oct 23, 2004, 07:41:33 AM »

jerk that cover off and see what ya got,

robinhood4x4 · « **Reply #20 on:** Oct 24, 2004, 10:08:28 AM »

Go to pirate and find somebody who's selling their IFS third member after they did an SAS.

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