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Seriously! There is a design flaw in the 214 that will cause it to explode. This particular item was covered on an show of Extreme 4x4.
When I was talking to the Advanced Adapter guys they confirmed this problem. In one case a member of ROFs daughter was driving the vehicle when the front of her case blew up.
There is an oil pick up tube internal to the 241 that has been know to come off inside. When it does a set of bearings are no longer oiled.
On the ROF forum I know of two others to which this has happened! Mine was a catastrophic explosions while being flat towed behind our motorhome somewhere between Missouri and Alabama. When we pulled into the RV park my wife asked me what was hanging down from the Jeep. I looked and it was a vent line. I look some more and there was NO
Transfer Case present. None! The front planetary gear was hanging onto the tranny. In short the TC froze up and exploded. It took out the pinion yoke on both diffs. Smashed the locker air pumps to pulp. Punched some huge holes THRU the floor board and dumped both of my new Tom Wood drives shafts somewhere on the freeway. I did not feel a thing in the coach. So for a bit more than 3,000 miles I had a 4880 pound bike rack behind the coach. $5,000 to fix it all.
This is why I now have an Atlas in mine.
Just a tiny bit of FYI. If I ever have another one I will pull that case apart and stake that damn oil line!
When I was talking to the Advanced Adapter guys they confirmed this problem. In one case a member of ROFs daughter was driving the vehicle when the front of her case blew up.
There is an oil pick up tube internal to the 241 that has been know to come off inside. When it does a set of bearings are no longer oiled.
On the ROF forum I know of two others to which this has happened! Mine was a catastrophic explosions while being flat towed behind our motorhome somewhere between Missouri and Alabama. When we pulled into the RV park my wife asked me what was hanging down from the Jeep. I looked and it was a vent line. I look some more and there was NO
Transfer Case present. None! The front planetary gear was hanging onto the tranny. In short the TC froze up and exploded. It took out the pinion yoke on both diffs. Smashed the locker air pumps to pulp. Punched some huge holes THRU the floor board and dumped both of my new Tom Wood drives shafts somewhere on the freeway. I did not feel a thing in the coach. So for a bit more than 3,000 miles I had a 4880 pound bike rack behind the coach. $5,000 to fix it all.
This is why I now have an Atlas in mine.
Just a tiny bit of FYI. If I ever have another one I will pull that case apart and stake that damn oil line!
Chris I don't. However when you split the 241 case the tube is very apparent. I don't remember how Extreme fixed the one he was working on but I think it was just a matter of staking the tube.
When mine went it was preceded by a squeak that I just could not find. I went so far as to remove one drive shaft at a time to try to isolate it. Well as long as one shaft was turning the case internals were turning. I walked along side and listened while my daughter crawled along while I listened.
The plan was to stop at a jeep dealer once we got to Florida and have them look at the TC because that was where it seemed to originate-——-didn't make it!
When mine went it was preceded by a squeak that I just could not find. I went so far as to remove one drive shaft at a time to try to isolate it. Well as long as one shaft was turning the case internals were turning. I walked along side and listened while my daughter crawled along while I listened.
The plan was to stop at a jeep dealer once we got to Florida and have them look at the TC because that was where it seemed to originate-——-didn't make it!
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Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'll definitely look into this when I have the transfer case apart just to fix a potential issue waiting to happen!
Thanks for hooking up a fellow forum member with a fantastic price on those axles! What did you replace them with?
Ended up with a 14 bolt and a wagoneer 44 with moly shafts locker and all that. Getting the 14 bolt narrowed now that the axles sold!
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