Winter is in full swing here, and the other day I had to engage my 4Hi to get out of a nasty patch of ice. When engaging and at sporadic intervals afterwards, my Jeep let off a loud grinding sound, esp. when making any sort of turn.
it's a '95 XJ - Automatic, with a 4.0L HO Engine, NP231 TC, not sure about much else. This Jeep had an issue with a particularly stubborn broken motor mount bolt, and sat on the side of a family member's house for a few years before I had it towed to the shop to get it fixed. I'm just now getting around to inspecting the engine, etc. - so far it runs great, even with 166k miles on it.
Now, being the idiot that I can sometimes be, I remembered after this happened a leak I'd spotted from the TC a few weeks earlier. I knew there was an issue there before, and I'm fairly sure it's a bad seal, and I wrongly assumed that my mechanic had paid attention to what I told him and had fixed the problem - especially since he'd replaced a seal on the transmission at the same time.
So, could this be caused by a lack of fluid in the TC? If the gears aren't being lubricated, it seems the most logical culprit.
Anyone else have any ideas?
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it's a '95 XJ - Automatic, with a 4.0L HO Engine, NP231 TC, not sure about much else. This Jeep had an issue with a particularly stubborn broken motor mount bolt, and sat on the side of a family member's house for a few years before I had it towed to the shop to get it fixed. I'm just now getting around to inspecting the engine, etc. - so far it runs great, even with 166k miles on it.
Now, being the idiot that I can sometimes be, I remembered after this happened a leak I'd spotted from the TC a few weeks earlier. I knew there was an issue there before, and I'm fairly sure it's a bad seal, and I wrongly assumed that my mechanic had paid attention to what I told him and had fixed the problem - especially since he'd replaced a seal on the transmission at the same time.
So, could this be caused by a lack of fluid in the TC? If the gears aren't being lubricated, it seems the most logical culprit.
Anyone else have any ideas?
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