So I'm at a light....(PIC'S)

[BobbyK]

10:30 at night, I'm sitting at a red light coming home after a 16hr day.
I had decided to take the Blazer to work for one of the last times this summer.
Top is still off as the last warm spell of the season is about to end.

Light turns green and I get on the gas....POP...not a boom but a big POP.

Truck now won't move.

I I think I lost a u-joint or something. So I put it in 4wd to get it to the side of the road...nothing....crap.

Luckily there was no traffic and I was able to push the Blazer onto a side street out of the way of traffic.

Look under the truck, no fluid leaking and the u-joints are still there.

Anyway...I had forgot my cell at home and no one would stop even when I waived my arms like I needed help.

Luckily the Police drove by and lent me his cell for a wrecker.

Next day I start to pull thing's apart looking for answers. I didn't need to look very far.

Here are the pic's.

Got the transfer case out 1st. Damn that thing is heavy!





Took a quick look at the T/C 1st. Can you see the prob.?




NIIICE I said to myself.






Output shaft of the trans broke in half.





It's a 700R4 by the way.






So after unhooking the trans cooler lines , linkages and wiring I drained as much of the trans fluid as possible and dropped the trans.









A fair share of ATF fluid got all over the driveway in the process.
I had just got the trans on the ground when my 5 year old got home from school.

He asked if he could help..I said go change and I'll put you to work.

Here he is cleaning up.




washing the trans.






I power washed all the part's I removed and then stood the trans on it's tail so all the ATF would drain out.

That's not grease on the T/C,just bare metal.











That's where I stand at present.


It's a TCI built trans and the out put shaft is from Advanced Adaptors.

I only run a mild 350 and 33" tires.

That output shaft broke clean. The splines where it meshes with the T/C adapter were perfect.

The trans only has about 15000 miles on it and hasn't really been abused.

You think this would qualify as a manufactures defect?


I don't even know what type of warranty A/A has on a part like this although I will be calling them.

So It' look's like a complete tear down just to replace the output shaft, never mind if I decided to replace the internals.




I'll post here with pic's as I do this repair.





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