Golden Helmet
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Like the title said, nothing's broken today, I just found a weird "glitch" and I'm curious if anyone has an explanation for it. For those that don't read sigs, my truck is a '92 with the E4OD.
Anyways, the other day I was playing around with my transfer case shifter, moving it through the gears just to keep the linkage from sticking due to non-use. It was a fight shifting it in to neutral and low range, and another fight to get it back out, but after some cursing and brute force it cooperated and now it moves freely again. Everything works, all is well, this is not the curious part.
The curious part? During the fight to get it back out of low range / neutral, the shifter kinda got stuck in an awkward spot (stuck once in neutral, and stuck once in a spot where the 4x4 and Low Range dash lights were OFF but the T-case itself was still in Low). I had my transmission in neutral with my foot on the brake; I wanted to take my foot off the brake so I could move and get a better angle on the T-case shifter, so I put the transmission in Park. The INSTANT the transmission shifter got to Park, the parking prawl in the transmission began grinding REALLY loud. I put it back in neutral and the noise went away, tried park again and it did the same thing. Once I got the T-case shifter unstuck and moving through the gears, my transmission had no issue going in to Park.
While I'm thinking about it, last year I was going through the same ritual, moving it through the gears to keep the linkage free. That time, I had trouble getting it in to 4-Low because something inside the T-case was spinning and if I didn't give it a quick, strong throw in to 4-Low it would just grind and not go in. That was with the truck stationary, and I tried it with the transmission both in park and in neutral.
So yeah, I'm just curious what that was about. If my truck is stationary, how does the T-case have any effect on the transmission's parking gear? For that matter, if the transmission is in park or neutral, how is it having any effect on the transfer case? If the transmission is in park or neutral shouldn't there be zero output through the transmission?
Anyways, the other day I was playing around with my transfer case shifter, moving it through the gears just to keep the linkage from sticking due to non-use. It was a fight shifting it in to neutral and low range, and another fight to get it back out, but after some cursing and brute force it cooperated and now it moves freely again. Everything works, all is well, this is not the curious part.
The curious part? During the fight to get it back out of low range / neutral, the shifter kinda got stuck in an awkward spot (stuck once in neutral, and stuck once in a spot where the 4x4 and Low Range dash lights were OFF but the T-case itself was still in Low). I had my transmission in neutral with my foot on the brake; I wanted to take my foot off the brake so I could move and get a better angle on the T-case shifter, so I put the transmission in Park. The INSTANT the transmission shifter got to Park, the parking prawl in the transmission began grinding REALLY loud. I put it back in neutral and the noise went away, tried park again and it did the same thing. Once I got the T-case shifter unstuck and moving through the gears, my transmission had no issue going in to Park.
While I'm thinking about it, last year I was going through the same ritual, moving it through the gears to keep the linkage free. That time, I had trouble getting it in to 4-Low because something inside the T-case was spinning and if I didn't give it a quick, strong throw in to 4-Low it would just grind and not go in. That was with the truck stationary, and I tried it with the transmission both in park and in neutral.
So yeah, I'm just curious what that was about. If my truck is stationary, how does the T-case have any effect on the transmission's parking gear? For that matter, if the transmission is in park or neutral, how is it having any effect on the transfer case? If the transmission is in park or neutral shouldn't there be zero output through the transmission?
