98 AWD wont move :(

[Justin727]

Well I bought my wife a 98 EB edition explorer a few years ago. It's been doing great and I've been keeping everything in check with it.

Well as she left the carport one morning to head to work it backed out just fine.. She stopped put it in drive and it reved but didn't move. She went thru all the gears and nothing. When she put it in park you can hear the clicking trying to slow down the trans down to engage park.

Needless to say even in park the truck still moves.... had to engage the E brake. Well had no time to check over it as we were both going to work that morning so I took her.
she called her father and he picked it up on his flatbed and dropped it off at his shop waiting for me to get some time off to get to work on it.
Needless to say i haven't had time.

its a 98 5.0L AWD EB. 145k on the clock. Any ideas of what it could be? Her father said he believes its the transfer case but the darn parking brake not working still plagues me..

All help appreciated
Justin

 

[IZwack]

Sounds like your father in law is onto something, the transfer case would be my first guess.

 

[Justin727]

he maybe, hopefully i can get sometime off this week to get to it. I've already started looking for transfer cases.

I could have sworn I read about swapping a transfer case out of a different for into the awd's that were stronger but maybe I could be wrong.

I know for a fact it has been replaced before because as i was doing the fluids under the truck the case had paint initials from a junk yard on it..

Thanks for your help

 

[IZwack]

A few people on the forum have swapped in the Borg Warner 4406 transfer case in place of the stock AWD transfer case.

 

[Justin727]

sounds good i will have to search and see how much more is needed to do this swap.

 

[MountaineerGreen]

Sounds like the case to me. By all means test it out first though. I took mine out and put in a Manual shift 4406 a while back. There is a write up with all that is involved, just follow the link in my signature.

 

[Justin727]

Thanks I will consider this!

 

[pavodive]

Check the TC is not in neutral

Before you think of swapping the TC, you can verify it is not in neutral. If the shift motor failed, for whatever the reason, during a 4L to 4H shift, the TC could have stopped when in neutral.

You can take out the shift motor and check where the shift shaft is pointing (L, N or H). You can even try to move it into H.

If the shaft moves too freely between H - N - L you could think of the shift fork, I had to change mine a couple months ago when one of its arms broke, laving the truck in Neutral (the Hi-lo collar stops in the midway between H and L).
You can gather more information from the shift motor sticky and the 4405 rebuild diary sticky in this forum (feel free to PM me, I just solved a very similiar situation in my X).

Good luck,

G.

 

[Turdle]

Before you think of swapping the TC, you can verify it is not in neutral. If the shift motor failed, for whatever the reason, during a 4L to 4H shift, the TC could have stopped when in neutral.

You can take out the shift motor and check where the shift shaft is pointing (L, N or H). You can even try to move it into H.

If the shaft moves too freely between H - N - L you could think of the shift fork, I had to change mine a couple months ago when one of its arms broke, laving the truck in Neutral (the Hi-lo collar stops in the midway between H and L).
You can gather more information from the shift motor sticky and the 4405 rebuild diary sticky in this forum (feel free to PM me, I just solved a very similiar situation in my X).

Good luck,

G.

There is no shift motor on an AWD transfer case--

However-
swapping in the 4406 is a definite possibility-
If I can do it, anyone can.

The only problem with this fix is the need for expedition, the parts are a challenge to acquire.