Wish you were closer... Well today I am in South Carolina but you know what I mean.
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Wish you were closer... Well today I am in South Carolina but you know what I mean.
Well I definately had fun, but the weekend didnt end so well. Lets just say that I need a new transfer case for my XK and had to get towed from PA home. :(
Ouch... I had to have the wifes P.T. Loser towed this weekend too.
Oh dear!
Our best wishes for quick XK healing.
Going to pick up new transfer case now. I should have it in by early morning!
Update: Just got the transfer case and the front output seal is bad. The case needs to be opened to replace it. :(
Is it also raining?
:)
Nope, not raining....lol
Made some progress last night.....
Picked up the new transfer case from junkyard. It came out of an 05 HEMI Jeep Grand Cherokee that had an electrical fire.
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Tore the old transfer case out of the XK
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Split open the new transfer case to replace both front and rear output seals
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...and here she sits until the morning when I pick up the new seals at the dealer
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As long as everything goes ok, the XK should be up and running by tomorrow night!
How did your T-case break?
Well its a long story. A few weeks back I received a late phone call from my brother needing assistance pulling out his friends F250 that was stuck in a mud hole at Cat Creek. The kid was burried and I had to give him a few hard tugs to try to get him out but the F250 wouldnt move an inch. During the process I started hearing a noice from underneith the XK that I have never heard before. I wasnt sure exactly where the noise was coming from so I decided I would check it out after our trip down to Rausch Creek, PA. When we were at Rausch Creek I heard the noise again a few times on Saturday whenever one of the front tires came of the ground and lost traction. It mostly happend on hill climbs when there was a lot of torque being applied. I made it through the day and then first thing Sunday morning we ventured over to Lake Christy. To get down by the lake there are severaly really steep hills that you must decend. When we were done messing around down there a few of us started making our way to the top again and chose which hill climb we were going to attempt. I obviously chose one of the harder hill climbs and after a 08 Toyota 4runner had to be whiched up I decided to take that same route. I made it 99% of the way up without any problems what so ever. At the very top there was a large rock that I was going to try to climb over with the passenger side front tire. I had to turn the XK a little to position my tire on the rock and when doing so I got the XK a little off camber and started to lose traction. When the traction control kicked in I started hearing that noise again coming from underneith. Instead of backing down the hill I figured I needed to make it the rest of the way up or id have to be winched up from down by lake christy. As soon as I gave it a little gas to get my front tire on that rock the transfer case blew and I had to be winched up the final few feet of the hill climb.