Hi Ken, Thanks for the reply. So the back story is I plowed through a four foot snowbank into a driveway when I did the truck kicked to the right and the rear tire slid into a ditch with five feet of snow in it. The relevance here is the whole drive train was hot and all that snow packed tight under the truck in every single nook. Even all the way up over the transmission. With it all being hot the snow melted enough to soak the rest of the snow which in turn quickly froze solid.
So I got under there yesterday to check for ripped wires etc and found a solid block of ice from the rear of the oil pan back to the start of the driveshaft. Couldn't see the transmission, front drive shaft or transfer case at all. So chiseling away and melting with map gas I got to the front drive shaft which wouldn't turn at all. Long story long I got all the ice out and it shifted right in to 4H and 4L right away. I'm not sure what exactly was wrong except maybe the front shaft has to be able to turn a bit to align the transfer gears. Or maybe the encoder was mad at me and said no way I don't know but it is one for the books. Thank you have a good one.
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019 AT 8:19 PM