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She blew!
I was on my way home and the transfer case went into neutral. Loud 'bang' then it was stuck in Lo range. This all happened 737 miles from home in Provo UT. Pulled the fill plug and this time there was metallic/black fluid (which I just changed roughly 300 miles ago in Moab). Luckily my father in law (who I was following) towed his TJ to Moab for wheeling, so we loaded my XJ up on the car trailer and used the TJ to tow my camper home to CA.
Gonna split the case open this week. My guess: something was dragging on the low range fork, 80 mph speed with a trailer it finally gave out. The 231 is the only stock component other than the D30. maybe it was a bit much, maybe I didn't rebuild it right 23k ago.
I will post updates with pics of the carnage once I get it apart. Just glad to be home, fun trip but Utah kinda sucked. Good scenery but backward laws that didn't make sense. Kinda glad to live in Cali.
Sorry to hear of your carnage......and I'm glad that you live in CA too! We need less folks moving to UT from CA to escape the high cost of living and Progressive policies, only to complain that UT isn't like CA........ :twak::twak::twak: