01 Durango drivetrain issues
Record Breaker
Joined: Jun 2011
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From: Bismarck, ND
Glad to hear you got it fixed. That sucks that the sucker exploded like that, I'm going to agree with hydra and say bearing failure because of the whining sound you said. Now what caused the failure is a better question..........
Champion
Joined: Jan 2011
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From: Pittsburgh, PA or Columbia, SC
Hydra is usually right (except when his visits jack for too long 
) so hes probably right. I only said bind because every other transfer case I have heard of exploding was because of bind from not completely disengaging 4wd part time. Also, I'm not completely positive, but I'm pretty sure it can happen to the electronically shifting cases too.
Anyway, glad to see you got it fixed, and I hope this never happens to anyone again.
) so hes probably right. I only said bind because every other transfer case I have heard of exploding was because of bind from not completely disengaging 4wd part time. Also, I'm not completely positive, but I'm pretty sure it can happen to the electronically shifting cases too.Anyway, glad to see you got it fixed, and I hope this never happens to anyone again.
Last edited by that_guy; Dec 19, 2011 at 12:31 PM. Reason: I still can't spell
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Joined: Jun 2005
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From: Riverton, UT
just to clear things up though, should you still reverse and swerve with a nv244 case as you would with a nv242
RTK
I look forward to the pictures, however I still think it was a bearing or a pump personally. Time will tell!