2reckless2drive

Don’t take stuff off that’s just silly. You can add to it, there ARE slip on extensions as well as ones you can weld. I’d get the extension and weld it, I’ll post a pic of mine

I would check the wheel bearings possibly the ball joints and while your at it check the C/V Axles. But that wouldn’t be the main problem dealing with the engine.. Could be the drive shaft or universal joint going out. Could be a bent or cracked wheel (which is a very good possibility) As for gauges, is the cluster backlit by LED Lights??? Cuz the PO could have went with aftermarket lights and in order to power them prolly tapped into the wire to the parking lights.. And as I just had the same issue with mine and it’s fairly common I can give you a definite answer for you 4x4: How the front axle engages is with a thermal actuator and it’s crap..... if it gets cold, the rig gets shut off while engaged, it gets submerged, etc.... whatever the case may be the thing will leave you stranded at the worst time and cause a hell of a headache... I got this deal called a Posi-Lok (nothin to do with lockers) it’s a cable with a handle so instead of having an electric piece of crap, you can manually engage your front wheel drive. It’s damn near like locking in the hubs but for rigs built with an on the fly style of t-case. I highly recommend it man do some research on it it’s pretty slick deal and definitely won’t leave you stranded. Search where that actuator is and see if it engages Or if you can reach under and fiddle with it by hand right now tho just to make sure it’s not the transfer case but even if it’s not the problem with the actuator I’d recommend still getting the posilok.. I’ll post some pics tomorrow. Hope this helps!!!!

Im having some troubles with my 4wd as well. You said that the front drive shaft spins but what about the C/V axles? Well actually idk how you would really check that because they will always spin so i guess to check youd have to jack up the front end whike shifted into 4H until both tires are off the ground and spin one wheel to see if the other one spins as well. Or if they dont spin at all which im pretty sure would be good cuz thatd mean the transfer case is locked in both drive shafts and engaged the front diff. Or only the tire your spinning spins then id have to say the problem would have to do with your gearing in the front differential. which from the sounds of it is more than likely the issue. the fuse dilemna is throwing me off tho idk what thats all about...

At 299,996 miles my rear diff went. got another 14 bolt 9.5" rearend with 3.72 gears just like the old one for 100$ from junk yard At 300,02X the passenger tire cambered in so bad from a worn c/v axle that it rode the brakes to the point of a small flame and ruined a 37" toyo. $1000 later (more than half that was new tools, air tools mainly so i wasnt to mad) back on the road but now im leaking coolant out of the hose going to the oil cooling system with that wierd fitting. But this truck will be new or totalled before i quit on her..