HOW TO REMOVE A TRANSFER CASE FROM A JEEP

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Hey guys, this is Matt with the YouTube channel Bleepin Jeep. Today, we're doing a DIY and Drive video tutorial with Pull-A-Part Used Auto Parts. Let's get started. All right, guys, what we're after today is the transfer case. Now, the first thing that you need to do is remove the driveshafts, front and rear. I've already gone over that in a different video, entitled, How to Remove the Rear Axle, or something like that. So if you need to figure that out, check out that video. So we're just going to start here, with the driveshafts removed. So the transfer case is what selects your four wheel drive or two wheel drive or neutral. So we need to remove this. And to get to that, we're going to drop it down. So normally, on your own vehicle, you would want to support your transmission and your transfer case with a jack, before you release this crossmember. But for safety reasons, you're not allowed to bring a jack into the yard. So what we're going to do is just loosen the crossmember. And what that will do is bring the transmission transfer case all the way down, so it'll just be leaning on the engine mounts. Be real careful here, because that sucker is going to drop eventually. All right, I probably should have done this beforehand. I didn't realize this crossmember was going to catch on the wheels right there. So if you're doing this, go ahead and do this first, and that is take the crossmember and disconnect it from the transmission. There is a rubber transmission support right here, and it bolts on under here, through these holes. They're half inch or 13 millimeter. And I believe there's four nuts up in there. So now that it's teetering here, I got to be real careful, because that's going to come down on me at some point. OK, there's one, two, three. I'm going to get way back for this one...four. All right, it's kind of a wedged in those wheels. Let's see what I can do here. Now, that the crossmember is out of there, it should be as low as it's going to go, unless it's hanging up on the shifter mechanism. So let's give it a little wiggle. There we go. That brought it down. Now, we can work on it and get to all the bolts. So now, we finally got it as low as it will go. Everything's being held up by the engine mounts. So now, we can go ahead and loosen up all the electrical connections. This one has a little red safety. Push that aside, and then, you can pull it off. So that's the speedometer. That shows you how fast you're going. This one, over here, goes to the 02 sensor on the catalytic converter. And let's see. What else do we have here? OK, so right here, is the shifter linkage. I should be able to loosen this up with the 13 millimeter and then slide that off... maybe not. If not, I've just got a little pry bar that you use for the door panels and things like that. Let's see if we can pry it off of that. There we go. It's just got a little rubber grommet. And that thing clicks inside there. So that's free. Now, we have a breather line right here, so just pinch that with your pliers. And then pull that breather line off. Now, all these parts--you might want to take off and bring with you, because you might need them when you get home. OK, I brought you up front here because I wanted to show you this. We're looking at the transmission pan, and this is the transmission mount, the rubber transmission mount. So we're going to need to take this off to get to the bolts that hold on the transfer case. So what you'll need is an half inch drive socket. It's going to be helpful if it's a deep socket. All I've got is a shallow one. It's making it difficult, but I've gotten it on there. It's really tight. And I've been able to break it free. So hopefully, now I can get a socket on there. And get that sucker off. Now, once you get that transmission mount off, try and separate this piece from the exhaust here. OK, I hope you can see these nuts here, but there are about six of them, all the way around the transfer case, attaching the transfer case to the transmission. Now, they are about something like that. Some of them are hard to get to. We've got one here, one here, and there's one inside this hole. On the other side, there's another one in the hole. And on the bottom side, there's a one in a hole. But you're just going to find all six of those and loosen them up and take them off. Let's see what I can do here. If you had one of those ratcheting wrenches, it might help a little bit on a few of these, but some of them are real hard to get to, and they might not fit a ratcheting wrench inside there. Once I broke that one free that was just finger-tight. That's nice. All right, two down, well, one and a half down, four, I have to go. All right, that's six. Now, if we did everything right, it should be Free Willy from here. Let's give it a yank and see what happens. There it is. Look at that. Well, all right guys, that's how you pull a transfer case at Pull-A-Part. I appreciate you watching. We'll see you next time.