1997XLTRollover
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- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1996 AWD 5.0
Hey all, short story is I think my transfer case is eating up a bearing, so I have to rebuild the case since I can't find one locally that's any good. Unlucky for me my truck is a 96, so it's almost impossible to find the 4 bolt front flange case. So... stuck with a rebuild.
That said I was going to do a new chain, VC and all bearings/seals... until I found out how much it all cost. So I was thinking of doing bearings/seals only and then throwing it back together with the original VC and chain since I have no issues with my AWD, other than a slightly loose front output yolk. So my question is how often do those chains stretch and how often do the VC's fail? My truck has just under 200k miles and I'm kind of hesitant to put those parts back in unless they rarely fail as I plan on keeping it for a while. Thoughts?
That said I was going to do a new chain, VC and all bearings/seals... until I found out how much it all cost. So I was thinking of doing bearings/seals only and then throwing it back together with the original VC and chain since I have no issues with my AWD, other than a slightly loose front output yolk. So my question is how often do those chains stretch and how often do the VC's fail? My truck has just under 200k miles and I'm kind of hesitant to put those parts back in unless they rarely fail as I plan on keeping it for a while. Thoughts?