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Originally Posted by Bdc101
Yeah, if the chain breaks or otherwise jumps off the teeth you will be stranded similar to having the front driveshaft hop out. I'm curious about this as well, I have some fluid to put in the transfer case as in 7.5 years I've never opened that up. I am only at 135k miles but it's the preventative maintenance that will keep these cars on the road, rather than reactive maintenance.
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I second that, for sure. If I've got some part of the car apart for some reason, I'll absolutely research and consider replacing or rebuilding, etc. any other component or system that is easier to get to due to the work I'm doing.
Regarding the xfer case. I did some quick research today and found there are two that can fit the 2002 pre-xDrive? I think the early cars all came with the NV125 (mine did) but per RealOEM that was superseded by the LWX 500 apparently? The input shaft is different so that needs to be swapped out with the NV125 input shaft.
I wonder what the difference is internally? Cobra even sells new LWX 500 models with the NV125 input shaft installed. I'd be happy to source one of these to rebuild if it was stronger internally, or otherwise a better piece of gear.
Edit...
A little more sluthing turned up this from Cobra:
https://cobratransmission.blogspot.c...-transfer.html
And some YouTube videos on replacing chains. Looks like the LWX is an easier piece to break down, with no c clips, etc.