Now I know what your thinking, and I was thinking the exact some thing at first. Theres no way that would work right and something would end up going wrong. Funny enough, I got quite a suprise last night when my friends did it on there Wrangler and Cherokee's.

For under $20 they each did this and it works like a charm, better then spending the $200 for the real kit. What they did is buy a bike brake cable repair kit from Wal Mart for like $5. This came with 4 cables and 2 were pretty long so they worked. Take off the CAD unit on the axle. Next they pried the vaccuum housing part apart. Inside there is a little rubber peice to seal the vaccuum. Rip that out and then the metal piece it was all hooked too.

Next there are three E Clips holding the the shift fork inplace. Pop all three out and the shift fork and rod it slides on come out. Drill a hold in the shift fork and connect the cable to it. Then drill a hole in the CAD housing so the cable can be ran out of it. A spring goes right on the inside ( the cable actually runs through the center of it) to push the shift fork back when you let off the cable.

Thats about it actually, now you can put her back together. This worked absolutly amazingly for being home made. Inside the car the wire was hooked to a throttle control lever. So mount it and pull the cable anytime you want the front axle ingaged, and easily throw it out!

This is cool for a few reasons, if your vaccuum system fails you'd be out of luck, but with this its not even used. And another cool thing is that you can keep it in 4 wheel drive and disengage the front axle for a second if you have to go onto pavement or make a sharp turn.

I'm impressed on how it turned out

 

summitracing sells manual CAD engage and disengage systems... it think...either way i know what you talkinb aboutl.. instead of vacum commanded its just manual .. thats cool they figured out how to do it... tell them they should do a write up and some pics

 

I only have one pic of it, didn't have the camera when it was all apart. So far it works great and is pretty cool.

 

id like some more details and some pics if at all possible.. sounds like a fun mod to do... that would be nice engaging the t-case and then disengage and rengage the CAD system whenver you want

 

yea i heard somthing like that on pavement sucks. i was thinking about it but i would rather buy the kit. that way when it breaks i can go bitch at someone.

 

LOL

 

lol, you can bitch all you like here... we wont take offence [sm=icon_stickpoke.gif]

 

we'll just bitch back and maybe a few "i told ya so's" lol

 

Very trie Tani! But this way it it breaks its only the cost of the cable kit for $5 or the spring for $.80

I think if you do a search on google for it it'll pull some stuff up. Its so simple I can pretty much explain it. I'll try to get some more pics though. The only problem was finding a strong enough spring. The first ones we tried didn't really have enough ***** to push it out and disengage the axle. When you hit a big enough bump and jolted it though it would pop out. Swaped a strong spring in and it works like a charm!