Any one else have a vibration resonating out of the transfer case lever?

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Under load towing I get a vibration out of the transfer case shift lever, especially at lower RPM. If I move it slightly to the right it goes away. Has any one else had this problem??

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96 Ext. Cab,4X4,Auto,73K,stock

 

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Not on my diesel. I had a similar problem on my other truck, my '78 Ram 4x4 with a 440 in it. It seems that around 80 mph (about 3,000 rpm) it would resonate quite a bit. Moving it to the right also helps a bit with that. Don't know what the cause is, so anyone else with any help would be apprecitated.

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Name: Craig Clairmont
2001 Quad Cab 2500 4x4, Short Bed, ETC, Auto, 3. 54 gears, SLT Plus, Sport, Forest Green Pearl, CS, TT, 305/70R16 Cooper Discoverer AT tires on Stock Rims, Grizzly Double Bend Chrome Bars, Catch-All Front Floor Mats, Weather Tech Smoke Colored Vent Visors, Engine is all stock... for now. Line-X bedliner coming this fall...

 

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I dunno if this is any help or not. My wife and I went from Eureka, CA to Provo, UT and halfway back with a terrible high pitched rattle coming from the transfer case lever. Lucky I'm almost deaf so I couldn't hear it. But the head of the house complained about it all the time. Tempted to put her out about Battle Mountain. Then she found it. It was a little glass bottle she had put in the transfer case boot and forgot about. HEE HEE HEE!

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Joe George
Eureka, CA

'95 2500 CC auto 4X4,3. 54,Combo EGT/boost guage,custom switch panel,PacBrake,TST #5,BD valve body,Automatic motorhome steps on both sides,Foldacover hard bed cover,Cummins chrome kit,Black steel grill guard,Front hitch receiver

 

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I don't get to haul anything :-( but my RAM did this and I found it was the boot that fit around my stick shift. DC went to that RETARDED rubber boot thing in the 98s and if you push down on it so that it slides down the gear shift, the sound stopped for me.

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Mark Callahan

1998. 5 3500 4x4 24V 5spd, Geno's Muffler Kit, Chrome exhaust, Western Hauler Headache Rack, Chrome Rocker Panels, A-Pillar Mounted Boost and Oil Temp Gauges, No Turbo Silencer Ring (Yeah Baby!)

 

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Yeah, I had the same thing. There is a TSB on it. The repair is simple, go under the truck with a prybar and stick it up against the spring on the transfer case lever and pry so it takes the slop out of it. It will come back again every so often and need a re-adjustment. I redo mine with every fuel filter change.

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Chris
1997 5sp 4X4, HX40, BD 4" Brake, Marine Compression, Custom Tuned Injection Pump, 370B Injection Nozzles, Delivery Valves, Governor & AFC Spring Kit, Psychotty Air, Water Injection, 6" Chrome Exhaust System, No Smoke Valet Switch, McLeod Dual Disc Clutch, Mag-Hytec Rear Cover, Cummins Chrome Kit, Optima Red Tops, Hadley Bully Horns, Hurst Line Loc. Test mule for Auto Wurks race program