New Liberty Owner

[marauder4]

Hey all! I just picked up an 02 Liberty Sport for a great price. After swapping the passenger's front axle and filling up the power steering reservoir the thing runs like a top. There are a few other tweeks that I'm looking into, and I figured I'd hit up some folks who have some time with them.

When I'm not searching for knowledge from a base of zero, I hunt, fish, hike, camp, and do all the other outdoor stuff that comes along with that!

I look forward to learning as much as I can here!

 

[tommudd]

Welcome to the site
When you replaced the right side CV, did you also replace the intermediate shaft ?
If not get one and replace it soon as possible
They wear in together and if not replaced as a pair it will wear out the new part fast

 

[marauder4]

Well, that I did not know! I had to take the inside cup of the shaft AND the transfer (intermediate?) shaft out and knock the cup off the shaft with a hammer...

Looking up parts, I replaced this thingamajig:

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Which was stuck on the shaft from this doohicky:

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so the doohicky shaft came out and went to the bench. The thingamajig then went through the metal frisbee looking jobber that had the clampy bits attached to it...

Those are technical names I'm sure!

 

[tommudd]

Not even sure what you replaced now since the bottom picture is the transfer case and top picture shows a CV for the right side
The CV ( first picture ) attaches to the intermediate shaft then goes into the front differential
The front driveshaft goes from transfer case, second picture , to the front and rear differential , and no way did you install that CV into the transfer case
Not even sure you know now what you did LOL
But fact remains you need to replace the Intermediate Shaft ( not a transfer shaft ) or ruin the new CV ( which hopefully was a remanufactured one from NAPA )
You had to knock it off with a hammer since the groves in both shafts wear and then get a bit off kilter and wear into a bad position, hence the need to replace BOTH parts ( CV and Intermediate shaft )

 

[marauder4]

Well ****!

I watched a youtube video and the right front CV boots were both shot and the shaft had pulled out of the cup thingie. The shaft that was stuck in the cup came out of the front transfer case (which is why I called it a transfer shaft), which means I need to get a new intermediate shaft and go through the process all over again.

And this is why I came here...

 

[tommudd]

Well ****!

I watched a youtube video and the right front CV boots were both shot and the shaft had pulled out of the cup thingie. The shaft that was stuck in the cup came out of the front transfer case (which is why I called it a transfer shaft), which means I need to get a new intermediate shaft and go through the process all over again.

And this is why I came here...

Front differential not front transfer case
and that is why we are here to help

 

[tommudd]

marauder4
Not down playing your issues or trying to correct you all the time,
But when talking about different parts of a vehicle it is always good to know what they are called so others who may have an issue like that can explain what's happening and where

 

[Johnny O]

Well ****!

I watched a youtube video and the right front CV boots were both shot and the shaft had pulled out of the cup thingie. The shaft that was stuck in the cup came out of the front transfer case (which is why I called it a transfer shaft), which means I need to get a new intermediate shaft and go through the process all over again.

And this is why I came here...

Congrats. Got my start wrenching on these things with the same problems.

Might be too late, but is the rebuilt shaft in the proper way? I shredded a ton of boots til I figured out I had put the dang thing in backwards…

 

[tommudd]

Congrats. Got my start wrenching on these things with the same problems.

Might be too late, but is the rebuilt shaft in the proper way? I shredded a ton of boots til I figured out I had put the dang thing in backwards…

???? will only go in one way
one end slips over the Intermediate shaft and the other goes through the wheel bearing

 

[Johnny O]

???? will only go in one way
one end slips over the Intermediate shaft and the other goes through the wheel bearing

Ooops, misread that. I’m referring to my follies with the prop shaft. Disregard. Lol

 

[marauder4]

Oh I fully understand what I don't know! Feel free to correct me as I get it that I am not a mechanic but am mechanically inclined. As I stated, this is why I came here. The new intermediate shaft has been installed in the DIFF and we're off to the races again.

Now it's issues with interior lighting and the air bag light. I will have nothing to do with air bags as they are stupid dangerous in untrained hands. Which fuses usually **** when it comes to the shifter lights, underdash lights, and the map lights front and back?

 

[marauder4]

Why did 'Bl0w' get censored?

 

[klc]

It’s how the code that runs this forum is set up by the owners. The moderators don’t have any control over it. There’s a thread about this that explains things better than I.

 

[marauder4]

Gotcha!