Lost 4wd in my 40 series today

[curly12]

Was up at Rallywoods today and lost 4wd. Wondered why I struggled with a couple of tracks. It is amazing where the wagon goes in 2wd with a diff-lock , although I wouldn't of tried a down hill run with it raining if I had of known.

Anyway the boys tell me it made a loud clunk when transfering from 2h to 4h at the hut. It is manuel transfer, not switch operated. The 4wd lights still show on the dash and I still have high and low ratio but the front drive shaft is not turning in eother high or low.
Any ideas before I start pulling things apart??

[Jerry]

is it mechanically activated or vacuum activated? should be 2 switches under the bonnet with air lines if its vacuum operated? if so could be the switches or the diaphram thingy in the Tcase???

PS Saddam has a factory cruiser manual if its worth PM'ing or ringing him

[curly12]

Will check that after I clean the mud out of it. Stinky and I had a quick look and think it is mechanical.
Have manuel for wagon already

[turoa]

is it mechanically activated or vacuum activated? should be 2 switches under the bonnet with air lines if its vacuum operated? if so could be the switches or the diaphram thingy in the Tcase???

PS Saddam has a factory cruiser manual if its worth PM'ing or ringing him

did you not read the first post jerry? manually activated not switch operated.

btw it definitely is mechanical 4wd. the only way you're going to know what is wrong is to pull the front output off teh transfer case. the fork might have slipped off or something. the 4wd activation is rediculously simple

[Sadam_Husain]

Has your cruiser got an early transfercase (pre 1980) or a split transfercase (post 1980)?

I think theres only a sleeve that the fork slides over the front output shaft to engauge 4wd so it should be pretty simple to repair.

I think I chewed out the splines on 3-4 of the sleeves on my earlier cruisers.

I've got a complete split transfercase here you can rob some parts out of but I've already promised Tu the manual engaugement part to swap out the vacume unit on the transfercase on one of his many LR's so you'll have to negociate with him first to see what bits hes already laid claim to?

[haynzy]

ya shoulda kept ya hilux (although the widow maker broke me last week)

[curly12]

Cheers, will look at it tomorrow