My 95 legacy 4eat is RWD today

[MilesFox]

The front axle failed on the outer cv while delivering jimmy john's when my woman was driving it. She needs the car so i had to do something about it. I picked up an axle and attempted to change it, but i could not get the nut off since the whole wheel was turning since i was parked on ice and the axle is not engaged to the trans in park.

 

When in gear, the axle was spinning in its cup making a buch of noise, and the car would not go until you gave it some gas, and sometimes it would shock the trans when the transfer clutches kicked in.

 

So i searched for the duty c awd lock and found the black and white wire(pin 11) on the trans harness and snipped it.

 

So i have been driving around as a RWD all day, no engagement problems, other than the trans needs to build a little fluid pressure off idel to engage the clutches. The dead axle spins at the same rate as the wheel, and only wants to make noises if the rear wheels are spinning out.

 

This is a temporary measure unil i can replace the axle. So far i have about 50 miles of urban driving and nothing seems to want to fail as of yet.

 

So when i replace the axle, i am going to repair my snipped wire with a switch.

 

 

I thought i would post this as something useful to anyone who needs to keep drivng their 4eat after it breaks and axle.

 

I was worried the front axle would fall out of the cv end and wreck the brake line, but so far that is not happening. Although this happens on ea82 cars, probably because of the sharper steering axis inclination.

 

If the axle had or will pop out, i have a drift punch in my pocket to remove the other end.

 

[Fairtax4me]

Find a big screwdriver and put it in the vents of the brake rotor, jam it against the caliper bracket. Quick easy way to hold the axle still so you can remove the axle nut.

[torxxx]

ground that wire that you cut to the duty C.  I did that on my SVX and theres no delay engagement or banging at all

 

and if you were really inclined make the resistor block to splice into the TCU so your computer still thinks everything is normal