Buzzing shifter fixed!

[Titan]

Hello all! Today I fixed my buzzing transfer case shifter using a tip I got from Mgrant. It worked great and took less than ten minutes. If you have a buzzing transfer case shifter and want it to stop making that annoying sound, look at the below suggestion Mgrant gave in a thread a couple of weeks ago:



Hi everyone,

I had the same problem with mine and I believe I've tried everything I could think of to quiet it. I used the washers, rubber between the brackets and levers, new knob, and they all seemed to help, but I not entirely. Then I finally found a solution that worked for me. The noise was emminating from where the linkage vibrates and buzzes against the shifter lever on one end and the transfercase on the other. This is where the washers seemed to help some, but not in my case. What I did was to take an old 5/8 garden hose and cut two, three inch long pieces. Then I cut each piece lenthwise (not totally in half, just one side) so that I can spread the hose apart and slip them over the linkage without taking the linkage off. Then I turned the hose so that the cut was opposite of where the linkage attatches to the lever, so that I won't slip past it and off the end of the linkage, and wedged it firmly up against where the linkage attaches the shifter lever and the other hose piece I used at the transfer case end of the linkage. Then I just used a hose clamp around the hose to keep it tight on the linkage, thus keeping it in one place. Now it's even quiter than the Getrag shifter! No buzzing, no vibrating, not even a peep! If someone else gives this a try, let me know if it works. Seem to really help my situation.



Mike





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[Diesel_Junkie]

I tried everyting I could think of, but no damping seemed to work,

THat solution seems pretty cool.



Here is what I did and it worked perfectly, and it made the shifter adjustable to sit correctly in the gate. After my NV 4500 conversion, it needed some adjustability.



I simply replaced the link between the t-case and shifter with a piece of all-thread 3/8"-24 and some of the cheaper heim joints(or rod ends) they sell at the hardware store, and then bolts at the joining ends. It seemed most of the noise was comming from that old link shaking aroung. it made the whole setup really tight and gives better "feel" of the big 205 when shifting it, so you know what gears you are in.