Well crap!

UncleWillie

UncleWillie

Rarely serious.
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Dec 29, 2010
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Thursday we were headed up to Statesville to get an 84 Impala and were doing about 70 when there was a loud bang and we lost drive. I coasted over to the side of the road and Steph noticed that the transfer case shifter was in neutral. I figured Heath had hit it when he was playing in the truck and it took a while to pop all the way out.

I stuck it back in 2hi and we headed up the road again.

We go the Impala on the tow dolly and headed home and about 20 miles later the thing jumped into neutral again. I coasted over and put it back in 2hi and we headed off again. About a mile later it did it again. I got it back in gear and drove the rest of the way to Hickory holding the shifter in gear.

We stopped to eat and I found a small ratchet strap in the truck and used it to hold the shifter in gear.

When We got home I found that the drivers side engine mount was broken and the transmission mount was collapsed.

I had to run around all day Friday taking care of small stuff in Steph's truck so the BlueOx sat till Saturday. I replaced the mounts Friday and then spent the rest of the day and all day Saturday fixing electrical problems that have cropped up and didn't get it all put back together till today.

The test drive was a miserable failure. It doesn't jump out of gear it just grinds horrifically.

I got under it and played with the shifter a while and I found that if I keep pressure on it I it will stay in gear if I keep tension against it but it clanks horribly going into gear.

SOOOO anyone wanna donate to the save the BlueOx fund LOL.
 
Well I found out why it broke. A previous owner didn't tighten any of the transmission bolts and the thing was moving around. Only one bolt was tight and that was the top bolt on the transfer case to engine adapter. The cross member bolts came out with just my fingers. Oh well my buddy at the transmission shop is hooking me up.
 
NP241? Should be extremely easy to find!
 
Dang, I would think that it was bucking and knocking around like hell and you could feel it w your feet on the floorboard?
 
I had a weird shimmy/vibration at about 2500 rpm while towing (which is all the time). No one could figure it out. The last week before it broke it became a light thump but still nothing you could put your finger on. I had 4 mechanics look at it. None of us thought to see if the PO bothered to tighten the bolts.
 
I rolled my Toyota hard on it's side many years ago and after it was back on the ground I drove it home feeling a BAD vibration, turned out one motor mount had seperated and fell back kinda in place when it was rolled upright, it was metal to metal on the frame an w all the engine vibration and shifting around transmitted to the cab I thought the truck was screwed. Put 2 used M/M on it and it was fixed :)​
 
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