Transfer case removal pictures...

[mel23816]

Has anyone replace the chain without taking the whole transfer case out?
2002 3.0

[epdarks]

Originally Posted by mel23816

Has anyone replace the chain without taking the whole transfer case out?
2002 3.0

Having done the job, I just don't see how that would be possible.

The chain needs to be wrapped around the sprocket inside the TC, so you basically have to assemble everything at once.

MAYBE, if you got the bottom of the TC off (I forget if that is possible without removing it), and you had one of those chain tools (connects and disconnects the chain at the link, forget the name), then you could feed the new chain up and around the sprocket, and reconnect it.

Easier to drop the TC....

[TiAgX5]

Originally Posted by epdarks

......MAYBE, if you got the bottom of the TC off (I forget if that is possible without removing it), and you had one of those chain tools (connects and disconnects the chain at the link, forget the name), then you could feed the new chain up and around the sprocket, and reconnect it........

I don't think this is possible, the chains are manufactured to size without a master link. All the pivot pins are mushroomed at the endplates if I'm not mistaken.