Originally Posted by braden737

Could the shift fork possibly be gunked up and stuck, or possible rusted out. We tried to move it and we could only move it 1/8 inch, by the time we were done messing it moved about a half inch. Could we need to lube it up with wd40 and pull it more? When my car was off and i spun the passenger wheel and my father pulled the fork you could hear it trying to catch on to the gear. We turned it on and put it in 4hi but it wasnt catching on the gear anymore. Anything this could mean?

Originally Posted by christine_208

If I were in your position, I'd keep playing with it. Perhaps between the exploded diagrams and pictures of the key parts, you could work out how much travel you should expect. Looking at the diagrams, I would think about an inch of travel should be expected.

Originally Posted by braden737

And so if its not moving would wd40 help it move

Originally Posted by christine_208

Perhaps WD-40 could help.

I'd take a look through the manual excerpt I posted to see how to get access to the shifting mechanism. Perhaps the housing for it could be removed? It looks to have a bolt or sensor on the side that might be removable that could allow more access for the WD-40.

Originally Posted by braden737

Alright ive been on here before asking around for things on my 4x4 system. Im pretty sure ive slimmed down my issues. Everything up to the front diff, the vacuums and all of that, work properly. My problem is after that. 4hi will not work, you can hear the transfercase however not the hubs. Now Christine suggested i jack my car up, put it in 4hi and try and spin front tires. If you spin the passenger tire, it wont do anything to the driver tire, and vice versa. So it seems as if my shaft is not engaging. Now ive looked at the cable that runs from my actuator to the diff. There is a little housing that the cable connects to the diff. If I were to remove that housing what is behind it? Could the cable perhaps be unhooked in there or could something behind it be froze up to not allow the driveshaft to work correctly? Any tips? (Also, just changed the 4wd indicator sensor, did nothing)

UPDATE……….
Today my father and I pulled off that housing. We pulled the plug that the wire goes into to see if we could manually engage the 4x4. It seems like gear #10 is just wore down which is causing the issue. Ill update next week to see if we have fixed it by changing that gear. family friend has a nice shop so we will take it there so we have room to take the shaft off to access those gears. Thanks for the help

Originally Posted by braden737

4wd is finally fixed, gear was stripped, thank you all for the help with finding the issue.