I have a 7.3, ZF5 and 1356. A couple months ago I was a few hours away from home I killed my transfer case. I was coming down a big hill in 5th, off the throttle completely and it just let go and made a grinding noise. When I got back on the throttle it acted normal, then when i let off again to decelerate, it went out permanently. Being far from home, I took it to a local guy, a friend of a friend :/ rather than paying the few hundred extra to get it towed back to my place. Aside from taking too long, he seemed to have done a good job.
FF to today. Im driving down the road, shift into 5th, and i get nothing but grinding. I go into neutral, and the noise continues, but quietly, until I stop. From a stop I try first, seems fine, second, third, fourth seem fine, until I let off the throttle (in 4th now) and it grinds an feels like it popped out. I grab the transfer case lever, just to see, and when i touched it, it went back into gear. So I do another test, from a stop, holding some pressure on the tcase lever, 1-4 worked, 5th just gave me noise, no power.
What am I looking at here guys? Theres no way I just picked up 2 unrelated drivetrain problems at the same time, right?
FF to today. Im driving down the road, shift into 5th, and i get nothing but grinding. I go into neutral, and the noise continues, but quietly, until I stop. From a stop I try first, seems fine, second, third, fourth seem fine, until I let off the throttle (in 4th now) and it grinds an feels like it popped out. I grab the transfer case lever, just to see, and when i touched it, it went back into gear. So I do another test, from a stop, holding some pressure on the tcase lever, 1-4 worked, 5th just gave me noise, no power.
What am I looking at here guys? Theres no way I just picked up 2 unrelated drivetrain problems at the same time, right?