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I have a 2001 HD Dmax and I work in the bush logging. I drive about 200+ km a day,so the truck has to run. Anyway, the transfer case oil pump died and wore holes in the tail shaft housing. I called a local welding shop and they told me that they wouldn't weld it because it's magnesium, however they did tell me that there is a epoxy compound that is machinable. I can't recall the name of the stuff but was about $80 for 5 oz's. I knew my transfer case was toast because it had run dry for so long, that I decided to experiment with the old crap. I took out the oil pump, striped it down and took out the center collar, slid it back onto the shaft then fixed the holes. I put in new bearings and slapped it back together, then drilled and tapped a new high level oil hole (about the height of the bottom of the tail shaft bearing) and filled the T-case thru the rubber plug for the tail shaft snap ring. Then I swapped the crap ATF oil out for some serious aw-68 hydro oil. Its been running this way for 4 months now without any problems so far and there's no more oil pump to worry about. Plus if you get a leak, the thicker oil will stick to the Tcase unlike atf that washes off. On a side note, I have also droped the ATF outta my manual transmission and put in AW-68 (tranny is super quiet now). I did this to stop gear chatter because of a ceramic clutch upgrade. I'm sure I'm gonna get a few comments about my tactics, but hey at least its working