need some help with my 92 wrangler t-case the shifter is bound up

BROKEN-WRANGLER · Jan 24, 2008

so when i did my 8.8 swap in my yj i had to install a sye in the t-case, theproblem im haveing is that ever since then my shifter is bound up and will not allow me to engage 4 wheel drive. so i pulled the t-case back out, and pulled it apart. when open i discovered that the vaccum sensor was not allowing the linkage to move. so i removed it and the linkage moved freely. so when i put it all back together it bound up. so i pulled the vaccum snsor out to try and adjust the li8nkage while it was in the jeep and it wont budge. i dont know what to do anybody got any ideas

JOOP · Jan 24, 2008

Are you in neutral with your tranny?

BROKEN-WRANGLER · Jan 25, 2008

yes it is

NotMatt · Jan 25, 2008

Did you follow the instructions for your SYE very carefully? I had to cut about an inch off of the shift rail on my 231 when I installed my Advance Adapters SYE, otherwise it wouldn't have shifted into 4wd. I actually need to take it back apart and shave a little more off, because sometimes it pops out of 4 low.

BROKEN-WRANGLER · Jan 26, 2008

i followed to my best ability but i missed the part about shaveing that off

JOOP · Jan 26, 2008

I didn't have to shave anything off of mine and it works flawless.

BROKEN-WRANGLER · Jan 26, 2008

what brand is yours joop

JOOP · Jan 26, 2008

BROKEN-WRANGLER said:
what brand is yours joop

Advance adpater's Heavy duty SYE and a Tom Woods DS.

I know Joe, (Xjoe) did his own I dont recall him saying he had to shave anything.

JPTHING · Jan 26, 2008

I had the same problem. It is absolutely the shaft being too long. I only buy JB Conversions SYE's, and it had to be cut. Cut the shaft, shifts awesome.

BROKEN-WRANGLER · Jan 28, 2008

yeah i bought the same setup as joop. how much would you guys say to cut off, im in a bad way, now we have like a foot of snow on the ground and i have a 2 wheel drive jeep

GaryTJ · Jan 28, 2008

pull just the tailshaft not the whole thing. shift into 4x4 and measure the shaft sticking out. compare against the depth of the cover and cut 1/8" shorter.

boxboy · Jan 28, 2008

NotMatt said:
Did you follow the instructions for your SYE very carefully? I had to cut about an inch off of the shift rail on my 231 when I installed my Advance Adapters SYE, otherwise it wouldn't have shifted into 4wd. I actually need to take it back apart and shave a little more off, because sometimes it pops out of 4 low.

Yep I had to cut 15/16 off the end of the shaft as well... my yj was a 1990.

BROKEN-WRANGLER · Jan 28, 2008

so i dont need to drop the shole case just the tail caseing and measure it.

Dusten · Jan 29, 2008

josh, if you need some help, give me a holler. I've got plans saturday evening and sunday, but saturday morning and friday night im free. you know i am skilled and cutting **** up on your jeep

JPTHING · Jan 29, 2008

I did mine with a grinder after pulling the t-case out 4 times, even swapping all the parts, and putting the SYE into 2 other T-cases. Mine was so long for the JB conversions SYE, that one of the case halves broke when I bolted the SYE housing down. It is super easy to just pull the SYE housing off, and cut the shaft, I cut mine 7/8" off.

BROKEN-WRANGLER · Jan 30, 2008

sounds good. im goin to portland this weekend so ill prolly do that next weekend if your available. yes it was brutal hearing when we put those tj flares on