Recent content by Natesgtojudge

Was it running fine before you replaced everything? Hindsight being 20/20, and all that good stuff, but your vehicle has crazy low miles to begin with to start throwing all those parts at it and changing everything. Rather than going one step at a time now you've got a whole bunch of extra...

Today I got all 4 wheels in the air on jackstands and was spinning both driveshafts by hand to see if everything is free. The noise is coming from the tail housing on the transfer case where the rear driveshaft meets the transfer case. Any ideas?

The lever on the transfer case itself is as far up and forward as it seems to go. I should've added in the initial post I hadn't used 4wd at all for over a year. This just happened completely out of the blue while driving in 2wd. When I changed the transfer case fluid I was able to poke in...

Correct. I am able to physically move that lever and it "clicks" into all 5 positions, but the problem is when the transfer case is in 2wd that is when the god awful noise occurs and the vehicle won't move anywhere. In any of the 4wd positions it seemed to work normally, at least enough so to...

'98 XJ 198k miles 4.0/auto/242 Out of the blue, while driving, what started as a whine began happening. This lasted for about 5 or 6 miles and seemed to only happen on deceleration. When applying the throttle/accelerating the noise seemed to disappear completely and all was normal. After those...