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Originally Posted by TiAgX5
You went the right way going the used/freshened unit route.
With a stripped front output spline, the rebuild cost approaches $500 DIYing.
The $2000 or more cost of a rebuilt/warrantied unit is criminal. The worn out TCs can be rebuilt in under an hour, for under $200 in parts, if F output spline is un-stripped.
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Yep. The trickiest part was finding a used 4.6 transfer case, since the 4.6 uses an LWX-500 transfer case and not an NV-125 transfer case like all of the other 4.4 X5's. The LWX-500 uses the same chain, but a lot of the other parts are different. There are no clips holding anything together— it all just kinda fits together. No chain retainer spring either. It was quite an interesting process to rebuild the LWX-500, given that just about every tutorial out there is for the NV-125.