About 3 years ago the chain in my '88 XJ's231 tcase stretched out and causes it to slip and make this god awful bang when you have it in 4wd but if you take the front driveshaft out, it doesnt but whats the use in putting it in 4x4 if you take the front shaft out. I pulled the front diff cover and checked the pinion and ring gear teeth along with everything else and everything was fine so it has to be in the tcase. It hasnt been put in 4x4 since then because of the chain and I havent had time to swap the one I bought into it.
Anyway, I got a tcase out of a '87 XJ with the same engine and trans and apperantly the same tcase shift pattern but the only thing that concerns me is will the splines match up on the back of the trans because the one on my cherokee is a NP231 and the one I got off the 87 says NP241 (or 242 cant remember. Both say 2H-4H-N-4L). So will these 2 cases have the same spline count since they came off the same AW4 trans even if they have a tag on them that says its a different model case?
Anyway, I got a tcase out of a '87 XJ with the same engine and trans and apperantly the same tcase shift pattern but the only thing that concerns me is will the splines match up on the back of the trans because the one on my cherokee is a NP231 and the one I got off the 87 says NP241 (or 242 cant remember. Both say 2H-4H-N-4L). So will these 2 cases have the same spline count since they came off the same AW4 trans even if they have a tag on them that says its a different model case?