Phew! The Flattie is a GO for Tellico!

Ok, I can breathe again. The Flattie is roadworthy and ready for Tellico.

I had gotten the Jeep essentially back on the road last week and took several local cruises around town to work out the bugs, and found that I had an awful growling coming from the tranny/transfer case area.
Less than a week away from Tellico, so a swap / rebuild was just about out of the question. Panic set in.

Welp, I got home from work this moring and commenced to wrenchin' when I should have been sleeping. (Feel free to join in here with me fellas, y'all know the tune.) I found the tranny full of foamy, watery chocolate-milkshake-looking slime, so I drained both the tranny and transfer case and pulled the overdrive unit. The overdrive was full of filings and metal bits, so it is likely to be toast. Out it came. Replaced the original bullgear and cover, then refilled everything with new 90wt lube. VOILA! The growl is gone!

Now I know I drained and refilled the tranny/transfer cases when I reinstalled them with the engine. I guess I didn't flush them well enough though. Oh, and I'm going to have to ship the OD unit off to Herm to see if it is saveable. The bottom line is that I'm fairly confident that this thing isn't going to grenade itself out on the trail this coming weekend.

 

Awesome Steve! I wonder if mine will make it.....

 

Sort of a good news / bad news deal...but glad to hear it'll be good to go.....

 

In honor of Mcruff getting his driveable today.............


I drove Animal to work!

Short wheel base and ross steering with a lift is better than coffee to wake you up in the AM.........

 

UWOP....for like the 3rd time. C'mon Billy...bout time we saw Animal again...

 

Video card set for a gazillion colors.

 

Growl is gone? Good! It's amazing what lubrication will do for stuff.

 

:d

 

Current pic, please.

 

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Doesn't look like 2.5" lift and 34"'s sitting there....