So I left Monday to head to Calgary from home to visit a friend. After Winnipeg I could hear my t.case making more and more noise. Then finally just before Medicine Hat it got kinda bad. I managed to limp it all the way to Calgary but it's pretty well finished.

Now begins the ardent task of finding a replacement for a reasonable price (because that's all I can afford) and replacing it myself with a very limited set of tools, outside in the cold in the driveway! And I kinda need it done in a week to week and a half.

Anyone in the Calgary area have or know of a good used auto np205? that won't cost me an arm and a leg of course

 

you need one for the CTD. The gaser has a smaller input bearing.
Jim

 

yeah I thought they were different. Thanks.

 

Gasser work's just fine I used 1 on my last truck and never had any problem's so Expand your search

 

drop a post in to the Alberta DTR #5 section on the bottom of the page. theres a bunch of us in and around calgary. someone might have one ready to go, I'm not sure.

 

I assume it's the gasser auto that would have the same input. What years will bolt up?

 

I will look I know the wreckers are charging silly bucks

EDIT : Tim in Trochu Heavy metal wreckers maybe 403-442-2600

Edit: not sure it saz Dodge and Chev kijij Ad ID 257507614 if so very good price

And in St Albert

 

pretty much all the late model 205's will fit I have used the early 80's on up n they bolt up no problem

 

Thanks Simply.

that one seems to be a divorced case though. Is the yoke over the input shaft or? I'm not entirely sure how that works with the divorced cases.

Plus, that's probably too far! :S

I did find another one on kijiji but I'm just waiting on a response back from the guy. Hopefully he doesn't want too much for it. He didn't list a price.

I'll probably give that Tim fellow a call.

Thanks.

 

update!

Tranny is toast too. Won't shift out of first and it slips pretty bad when you first try to go. Fluid looks about the same as motor oil that's got 10k miles on it. I don't think there was any fluid mixing or anything though. The fluid level is bang on right where it should be.


Looks like I'm towing it home some way or another and parking it for a good long while.

 

And who knows, tranny may just be the problem, i.e. the NP205 is OK? It'd be weird having both toast at the same time; besides, the NP205' are supposed to be (almost) bulletproof.

Good Luck!

 

that's kinda what I was thinking. Although I do think some of the bearings in the transfer case are on their way out. It has almost 300k miles on it and 2 yeas ago the t.case was kinda run through the ringer when my truck was stolen. When I do the trans I'll probably do a rebuilt on the case too. It's not even $200 for a rebuild kit for the 205 so knocking off 2 birds with one stone seems like a good idea to me.

 

If it puked the O/D unit, it'll sound for the world like the T-case took a dump.
Check the t-case lube level, chances are if it's up, it's not a part of the problem.

Mark.

 

Call Holst Truck Parts in Ucon Idaho, My old one is sitting on their shelf.

 

yeah that's the first thing I checked. The fluid level was all good in the transfer case.