Greetings from Another Albertan, Calgary Area

[SkunkedGorillaz]

Came across this site in a post on Pirate 4x4. Have been happily enjoying some of tje build threads from members here and decided to join up so I can follow along with some of these builds I've been enjoying.

My current rig is a 2001 Blazer Zr2
-SAS Dana 44 & Ford 9" 4.88 gears with posi in the rear. Manual locking hubs front
-4.3L with 208,000kms & Hypertech Power programmer 3
-Factory 5speed Transmission NV3500
-Custom NP241/231 Transfer Case with cable floor shifter
-James Duff Longarm Coil Lift front & Leaf springs rear
-35 " MTS
-Banana Armor custom Winch Bumper
-Banana Armor custom rock Sliders
-power/heated Leather Front seats



I haven't had it very long about a month. Picked it upto replace my insurance written off 98 Jeep TJ which I had owned for 22 years.

Haven't had the blazer for very long, but have my 1st major Mechanical repair to dive into tomorrow afternoon. Ended up having a transfercase failure cracked the back half of my case clean off. Will get her pulled into the garage and pull the tcase and figure out something to replace this cracked unit




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[Scott Cee AKA 2drx4]

Nice rig.


Apparently I've screwed up the forum permissions. You shouldn't have needed approval to post this. Let me know if you can't post anything else. I'll have to sort things out...

[Scott Cee AKA 2drx4]

Is that rear driveshaft out of balance or something? Or maybe slip yoke bottomed out? Odd it broke the back of the tcase off like that. When it looks like there isn't a ton of angle on it.

[SkunkedGorillaz]

Is that rear driveshaft out of balance or something? Or maybe slip yoke bottomed out? Odd it broke the back of the tcase off like that. When it looks like there isn't a ton of angle on it.

Never had problems with vibration while driving it. This should have been avoided, but was trying to help the sister husband who got his farm truck and trailer stuck in field. Obviously I/ we should have just had his uncle bring the tractor down. Sad lesson learned.

Hopefully get the transfer case pulled tomorrow afternoon and see what I have / had under it. Supposedly it was a custom NP241/231. What that all ment isn't very unclear to me. But figure once I get it out and see what the mount pattern is and the spline count, I should be able to track down a NP241 driver drop case with the proper bolt amd spline count to replace this currant one.

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[Scott Cee AKA 2drx4]

You can check if it still has the ID tag on it too, might explain where it came from.

[SkunkedGorillaz]

You can check if it still has the ID tag on it too, might explain where it came from.

Unfortunately there were no tags left on the current Transfer case. Maybe on the top which I haven't been able to see.

It's gotta come out one way or another. So will rip it apart tomorrow hopefully weather permits as my garage/small shop has one too many projects on the go, so she's gunna be an out in the driveway gig.

Only the tail case had a stamp on it.




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[Snowracer]

welcome to the site, very cool build

so where do you wheel in Alberta? is it crown land or parks ect?

[pointsnorth]

welcome

[SkunkedGorillaz]

welcome to the site, very cool build

so where do you wheel in Alberta? is it crown land or parks ect?

Thanks for the Welcome

I've in Cochrane Ab, so head north up the Forestry Trunk Road Hwy 40/940 north and there are lots of trails up there. Also McLean Creek is fairly close by but closed to OHV during the winter months.

Have dreams of heading out to Salmo/Slocan area of BC. I was following a guy on Instagram who does some sick exploring around that area and the amount of Adits, and old mining history he comes across is epic.

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[SkunkedGorillaz]

welcome

Thanks for the Welcome to the forums

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