No worries guys. I'm not going to buy anything until I get it apart. The input shaft is merely a guess. I know it could be a multitude of things. I work at a shop myself, so I'm pretty competent with what I'm doing. However, I appreciate all of the offers for help. I should be able to get the tranny out tonight or tomorrow after hours, then I'll know for sure what the problem is. I'm pretty certain it's tranny related, but I'm not sure exactly what it is yet. Mac, that's exactly the info that I was searching for. Thank you.
I haven't looked at it too closely yet, my main concern was getting it back to wilmington. I have no power to the driveshaft in any gear, or any range through the transfer case. The more I think about it, the more confused I am about what it could be. I lost fifth gear while cruising down the highway. When this happened, it sounded like it just popped out of gear (which it did) so I went to put it back in gear it felt as if fifth was nonexistent. I then put it in Fourth gear and continued down the highway for about 3 miles with no problem. My girlfriend and I thought we smelled gear oil burning on the exhaust, so I opted to pull over at the next exit. When I did this I took it out of fourth to downshift to third, and realized third was gone, same with second and first. The Jeep would do nothing but rev through as if there were no clutch there. I pulled over to the side of the road and looked a little deeper. I can now feel every gear engage in the transmission, including fifth. I went through every gear in the tranny, including reverse, attempting to see if it would do anything. I got nothing. I then went through every range in the transfer case. Again, nothing. I looked over the tranny, there are no holes in it anywhere. I believe the gear oil I smelled was from the leaking pinion seal on the rear axle. There were no noises before it went out. It felt and sounded great. I really can't make any sense of this. This is by far the strangest thing that has happened to me. Hopefully I'll know more tonight. Unfortunately I have to write a paper tonight too, so I may have to put this off until tomorrow. Any ideas feel free to throw them out there.
