Attention Gas/Oil Field Workers!!

[11rangerdanger]

GET EXCITED!

 

[racsan]

thats true, didnt think about that. ( that the topmost shaft is in constant motion no matter what postion the t/c is in) still seems like a low oil issue, but like you said, once it explodes, its impossable to know what the fluid level was.

 

[Will]

That's a serious weakness in that case, don't you think? You can't tell people to get out and switch the hubs in a heavy duty pickup. Going from site to site all day--oil field, farmer, utility worker, emergency vehicle--you are on and off the hardball and the wheels are caked in mud--chunks of it hitting the fenders as the tires clean on the way to the next site. The T-case will really explode if you don't switch the hubs? The hubs on my B2 have been locked for years. I would have flanges if they offered them.

That transfer case is garbage.

 

[Ozwynn]

^^^ what he said. Maybe Ford needs to offer a full time 4wd option like the older late 70's F-series for the vocations that need it....... wasn't that the 203 t-case? maybe it needs to be dusted off and brought back.


I thought SD had an awd option?

 

[Captain Ledd]

I always figured it was simply for mileage anymore now. Used to be because they could build the front driveshaft cheaper, smaler, and probably didn't bother to balance it very well, and those low pinion axles didn't exactly help the u-joints out. My friends J-10 (damn I use that truck as an example too often) front driveshaft is about a big around as a half dollar. It's little more than an axle shaft. He left the hubs locked all winter, ended up roasting the splines on the slip yoke and now it wobbles like crazy.

I have to imagine that if it caught this water separator just driving along, it would have caught it anyways? I could also bet he smacked it on something in the field and the highway speeds tore it the rest of the way apart.

Besides, a ton of vehicles now have full time cartridge style bearings up front, those don't seem to have issues?

 

[LearjetMinako]

Wait, what, how? So it is a bad thing to drive around with the front hubs locked and the transfer case in 2Hi?

 

[adsm08]

I'm thinking its the extended use like that at high speeds that does them in.

Most part time transfer cases are not designed with the need to go +70 MPH with the front end engaged for excessive periods of time in mind. Especially when it's going in a vehicle that has an auto-hub feature. And if you look at this, it's obvious that the front output bearing is what locked up.

 

[exbass94]

My truck has permanently locked "hubs" and I drive over 75 mph all the time. I don't buy that that's caused by leaving the hubs locked. Driving in 4wd yes, but not from driving in 2wd with the hubs locked.

 

[Maniac]

wow thats tore up

 

[adsm08]

My truck has permanently locked "hubs" and I drive over 75 mph all the time. I don't buy that that's caused by leaving the hubs locked. Driving in 4wd yes, but not from driving in 2wd with the hubs locked.

Your truck has a transfer case that was designed for use with a live axle.

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

Not too much has changed in the BW1354......

 

[hopster]

we've had similar failures on those trucks with the same response from hotline. it must just be how they designed them.

 

[adsm08]

Not too much has changed in the BW1354......

Even still, just a small change in those front bearings could prevent it.

And didn't they change the front output from the double cardan 4-bolt style to the CV joint 6 bolt not too long after the change to a live-axle?

 

[Jspafford]

I call BS as well. I know my old rust bucket B2 never see it's hubs unlocked. It vibrates a little more with them locked, but I've never had anything like that happen.

Just how fast do you drive on the highway?

 

[Bent Bolt]

It's not the transfer case that is the problem. It's the worn out front driveshaft double carden joint that allows the DS to spin at high speed OFF CENTER that eventually destroys the T-case. I've seen many, many of those failures and the drivers that were kinda paying attention at the time say there was a bad vibration just before the explosion.