Wheeling turns to driveline problems! Shocking I know...

[scottystills]

Had a good day wheeling today, for the most part, until I sheared my passenger FUSH bolt off. Trail fix, got er bolted up again to limp home (130km) but I didn't notice it was broken until I'd probably gone another 40 minutes down the trail.

So what's happened is the spring has turned between the ubolt plate and the perch, pushed the rear end out forcing the shackles off center of the frame rail. Not a big deal, they're not bent, will just loosen the ubolt a bit, turn it back and torque it back down.

That said, on the way home (like I said, 130km...) got a bad driveline vibration any time I'm into the pedal, including coast. Goes away when I push in the clutch though. That, coupled with my SM puking gear oil out the tower onto the floor in the cab, and leaking bad between it an the tcase.

Two things... First, wondering if since I put in the ORD HD engine mounts, they're more rigid and since I built the tranny xmember prior, built it pushing the tranny up a bit too high forcing the angle. They've been in for a while though so don't think that's the culprit. Vibration aside, wtf is all that gear oil pumping out the shift tower for??? That's a new one for me, my cab stinks! If the tranny's off angle somehow, what have I broken to cause a vibration like that? Drives and shifts fine... I'd suspect the pilot bearing but seeing as it goes away with the clutch in that kind of cancels out it and the throwout.

Second, wondering if just the spring being off angle is causing the suspension to shift a bit weird, or just throws my alignment off to cause the vibration. Hoping for this one, will try to get this fixed up tomorrow, should be pretty quick job.

I'll grab a couple pics tomorrow, but I'm sure you smart folks of CK5 get the idea.

 

[toomany]

No clue on the drivline problem.

But on the transmission blowing oil out the top and the back....check your vent. If it gets clogged when the trans builds some heat it will push the oil out the easiest place it can find.

 

[scottystills]

No clue on the drivline problem.

But on the transmission blowing oil out the top and the back....check your vent. If it gets clogged when the trans builds some heat it will push the oil out the easiest place it can find.

Can't the SM just vent from the tower, or is that more sealed than I think it is?



So I did forget, last summer did the adapter seals (and all the TC seals) because I was having the problem where the tranny oil was filling the TC. As a fix cleared the TC vent and actually ran a line up to the shift tower. Now that I look closer I'm thinking I'm having the same trouble, TC is filling from the tranny and puking out that vent. I'm not doing anything about it for now, if it blows up it blows up. Have the 6.5 and 4500 to go in once the weather turns, so the next time I pull it, it's going on the shelf!





Tried to get a decent picture, but tough without jacking it up. The spring is about 3/4 outside the frame rail. I'll get this fixed tonight and replace the hardware, so maybe that'll fix my vibration. Is that spring being out enough to shake the truck?