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<blockquote data-quote="Ruger" data-source="post: 1650309" data-attributes="member: 1594"><p>Well, this was an educational exercise. The Service Manager took the time to do a nearly complete disassembly of the unit. The obvious expertise involved was convincing - I am certain that he had been inside a Ford truck transfer case many times before. As I expected, he observed only a tiny bit of metal inside. There is a magnet that's about 3/4 inch by 1/2 inch that just rests on the bottom of the case that had a little metal on it. The shift forks - both the metal and the plastic one - were undamaged. The tale was told when he showed me obvious wear on two ring-shaped parts that engage 4WD. The engagement surfaces between those two parts should have been smooth, but they were rough. They were slipping against each other while the unit was in 4WD, when they should have been locked together. What locks them together is a large ring-shaped electromagnet. The shift motor mechanically shifts between 2WD, 4HI, and 4LOW, but the electromagnet locks the parts in the selected gear. The only thing that would cause the evident wear was a weak electromagnet.</p><p></p><p>So the mechanical failure was caused by an electrical failure. It wasn't any shortcoming in the legacy Ford Transfer Case Fluid or the maintenance the unit received, and in fact there was nothing an owner or shop could have done to predict or prevent this failure. It was just dumb bad luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruger, post: 1650309, member: 1594"] Well, this was an educational exercise. The Service Manager took the time to do a nearly complete disassembly of the unit. The obvious expertise involved was convincing - I am certain that he had been inside a Ford truck transfer case many times before. As I expected, he observed only a tiny bit of metal inside. There is a magnet that's about 3/4 inch by 1/2 inch that just rests on the bottom of the case that had a little metal on it. The shift forks - both the metal and the plastic one - were undamaged. The tale was told when he showed me obvious wear on two ring-shaped parts that engage 4WD. The engagement surfaces between those two parts should have been smooth, but they were rough. They were slipping against each other while the unit was in 4WD, when they should have been locked together. What locks them together is a large ring-shaped electromagnet. The shift motor mechanically shifts between 2WD, 4HI, and 4LOW, but the electromagnet locks the parts in the selected gear. The only thing that would cause the evident wear was a weak electromagnet. So the mechanical failure was caused by an electrical failure. It wasn't any shortcoming in the legacy Ford Transfer Case Fluid or the maintenance the unit received, and in fact there was nothing an owner or shop could have done to predict or prevent this failure. It was just dumb bad luck. [/QUOTE]
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