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DB605
Member
Date registered: May 2015
Location: South FL
Vehicle(s): 99 G500 LWB
Posts: 17
| Transfer Case Gear selector issue
Greetings and Happy New Year,
Have come across a strange condition where the transfer case gear selector has popped into N, while selecting Reverse in the transmission shift knob. This condition was very intermittent and has happened maybe 4 times.
Recently had my car serviced and asked them to check it out, it did not do it while they had it so no action was taken.
Picked my car up, drove about 150 miles without issue, and suddenly it did it on the highway at speed, I pulled over, shifted the TC into H and continued driving. This happened 3 more times and the car is now back at the shop.
Concern is the TC might need to be replaced if that is something that cannot be fixed.
I searched the forum and the only similar situation I could find was someone who had a spare TC and swapped it out until they we could diagnose further. That is not the case for me unfortunately!
I checked with MB and it seems the TC is NLA as a new part.
I checked with Europa and they say there is no fix as individual components are not available and what they do is source a newer MBUSA TC and swap those guts into my cars existing TC.
Any comments or thoughts on this situation would be greatly appreciated.
Antonio
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Otiswesty
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Date registered: Jun 2007
Location: Portland, Oregon
Vehicle(s): 463.241, 461.213
Posts: 3004
| RE: Transfer Case Gear selector issue
The TC is fully syncronised so if it pops out of gear you can shift the transmission into neutral while driving, and then put the TC into H, followed by the trans back into D.
That said, the TC should not pop out of gear.
Puch does rebuild them at the S-Tec workshop. Here is the link.
https://www.s-tec.at/?LNG=en
https://www.puch.at/19783_91299_shop_TRANSFER-CASE-REMAN-VG150-E.asp...
It is not cheap, but I do not know of another shop that rebuilds the TC.
A used one is a better option, but they are rare. There is a guy parting out some 1990s 463 in England, but the TC gearing is not the same.
https://clubgwagen.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=24779 |
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DB605
Member
Date registered: May 2015
Location: South FL
Vehicle(s): 99 G500 LWB
Posts: 17
| Re: Transfer Case Gear selector issue
This is helpful! Thank you very much! |
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