wheelin79cj
NAXJA Forum User
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- Florida Panhandle
I am in the process of installing a lift, Y-Link and Advance Adapters SYE on my wife's 1999 XJ. It has the 231 transfer case.
Everything went really smooth with the SYE, I guess maybe too good because when I went to install the rear yoke it doesn't seem to be the right yoke, tailhousing, output shaft or something. I suspect they sent a wrong yoke. The yoke they sent has the sealing surface and then tapers down to the splines. The taper ends in a surface that is 90* to the shaft/splines. It appears to be too large and the taper shouldn't be there. Even with lubing up the seal and yoke the first 3 or 4 times I tried to install it, the outer lip of the seal rolled in on itself. I ended up having to use a pocket screwdriver to get it over the 90* flat surface and onto the taper. Then it bottoms out on the bearing with the inner lip of the seal still on the taper (which isn't machined smooth) and the outer lip of the seal is MAYBE a 1/4 inch onto the machined sealing surface. No way this is right. I thought maybe the output shaft needed to come out more, but if it did it wouldn't matter because the yoke nut would bottom out anyway. Anyone have any suggestions? I will be posting up pictures as soon as I can go get them when my son goes to bed. I would just call their tech line, but go figure....it is only open M-F when everyone installs stuff on their vehicles. Thanks.
-Aaron
Everything went really smooth with the SYE, I guess maybe too good because when I went to install the rear yoke it doesn't seem to be the right yoke, tailhousing, output shaft or something. I suspect they sent a wrong yoke. The yoke they sent has the sealing surface and then tapers down to the splines. The taper ends in a surface that is 90* to the shaft/splines. It appears to be too large and the taper shouldn't be there. Even with lubing up the seal and yoke the first 3 or 4 times I tried to install it, the outer lip of the seal rolled in on itself. I ended up having to use a pocket screwdriver to get it over the 90* flat surface and onto the taper. Then it bottoms out on the bearing with the inner lip of the seal still on the taper (which isn't machined smooth) and the outer lip of the seal is MAYBE a 1/4 inch onto the machined sealing surface. No way this is right. I thought maybe the output shaft needed to come out more, but if it did it wouldn't matter because the yoke nut would bottom out anyway. Anyone have any suggestions? I will be posting up pictures as soon as I can go get them when my son goes to bed. I would just call their tech line, but go figure....it is only open M-F when everyone installs stuff on their vehicles. Thanks.
-Aaron