Wow, that does not sound like a fun trip home! Glad you were able to keep it together(ish) successfully.
Wow, that does not sound like a fun trip home! Glad you were able to keep it together(ish) successfully.
I bet the relief when you made the turn into the driveway was a wonderful experience.
Waiting for the other foot to drop is never fun.
Glad you made it.
one of the reasons i prefer 2wd is less to break. I know there prone to trans issues and im guessing yours had the t case fluid serviced at some point since you had the trans out. Kind of weird to get issues out of the front diff and t case on one trip!
dmyntti wrote: In case you change your mind on 4wd there is someone parting out an Avalanche on the Columbus Craigslist. Yesterday he posted a front differential for sale.
will check. my truck has the (from what i can gather) fairly rare 4.10 gear option. seems most were not that as when the rear broke it was borderline impossible to find a 4.10 axle for sale. thanks
patgizz wrote: so with the service 4wd light, this morning the stability control off light came on, the 4wd selector buttons light went from 2hi to neutral then to no light at all and i had horrible noises coming from the transfer case area on stops and starts. and we just got home 377 miles later. stopped as little as possible to keep the nasty noises to a minumum. at this point i can't trade it in because they'd give me nothing since crap is broken even though it's a nice clean truck with good paint and interior.
Isn't that the noise where the transfer case pump cuts away at the case and starts hitting clips on the case? Sounds like the symptoms before it kicks parts out the housing.
dropstep wrote:
transfer case was serviced at 129k when trans was rebuilt, truck has 151 now. i usually go 2wd trucks for the same reason, but when i was looking for something that could haul the kids and the work trailer and the car trailer, it checked all the boxes and had everything i wanted in a truck. i love the truck, except that maybe i needed a 3/4 ton or bigger. or maybe it was used hard before i got it and they traded it in before stuff broke. either way when we were in florida i shopped for a cummins crew cab but they all had the goofy little extended cab that people call a crew cab and not the 4 real doors. i hate the interior of the ram, for me the best of both worlds would be a cummins in a chevy. i love my interior, the look of the truck, the 14 bolt rear axle i swapped in can handle anything. i just keep finding the weakest link.
Figured it was serviced. My bosses 1500 was ordered with 4.10s and the tow package. Maybe someone optioned your avalanche for serious tow duty.
it had a brake controller when i got it, and i've put 41k miles on it so far. i'd say 35k of those have been with trailer, mostly my 6x12 enclosed work trailer with tools. i bought the 3500HD to take some of the heavy lifting off of the avalanche but that truck needs more work than i care to give it right now. i was just shopping CL for options. ideally nothing happens horribly until after i get other crap fixed and have backup plan in place. it'll mostly be parked while i source some sort of parts to fix it, be it a 2wd 4L80 and driveshaft or whatever. that's probably the smartest option right now, then just drive it and drive it some more because the 5.3 runs like a champ. i guess i could source any chevy transfer case from behind a 4L60 and toss it in there and just leave it in 2wd, but by the time i go through that trouble it almost seems better to get the 4L80 because of the towing aspect that i bought the truck for.
i should have found a 2500 instead when i was looking, but none of them came without the god awful ugly cladding. i was not about to buy a rubbermaid truck.
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