Please elaborate on "front end is gone". That is open to interpretation.
Normally replacing or repairing half shafts is not that complicated. Throwing them away is hardly the best repair. I don't know what kind of transfer case you have. If it uses a viscous clutch, it wants to pull the front and rear together as long as both offer equal resistance. In other words, with nothing to turn in the front, the front drive shaft will spin freely so no power will go to the rear drive shaft.
There were some Jeep models that used a solidly-locked transfer case that insists on turning the front and rear drive shafts together, regardless if one is removed. That design will turn just the rear drive shaft by itself if anything in front is removed.
Exactly what kind of problem are you having?
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Thursday, February 12th, 2015 AT 7:27 PM