Many repairs needed

[anand]

If the wheel is still on, you lift the wheel. There is an attachment for the Hi-Lift to do that. But there are lots of ways to solve that problem, of course.

A tree saver wrapped around the backside of the tire works well with the hi-lift as well instead of the Lift-Mate (especially since it only works with certain wheel designs).

With that being said, we teach it in all of our classes, except for a very few circumstances, there's no point in carrying any hi-lift other than the 60" on a "regular" sized or larger vehicle

 

[Kevin Mokracek]

The spring sound when going over a bump could very well be a transfer case cable hanging low and hitting the coupling on the drive shaft. There have been several with that issue including mine. It took me a long time to track down. Crawl under and inspect the area around the drive shaft, particularly the rear coupling of the front drive shaft or the front coupling of the rear shaft. Its an easy fix, take a heavy duty zip tie and secure it out of the way. Mine was missing a retention clip.

 

[Lars]

The spring sound when going over a bump could very well be a transfer case cable hanging low and hitting the coupling on the drive shaft. There have been several with that issue including mine. It took me a long time to track down. Crawl under and inspect the area around the drive shaft, particularly the rear coupling of the front drive shaft or the front coupling of the rear shaft. Its an easy fix, take a heavy duty zip tie and secure it out of the way. Mine was missing a retention clip.

FWIW, i read your previous post that stated that, but i'm 99% sure that's not the issue with mine. I wish it was but everything seems tight and there's a zip tie holding the transfer case cable away from the driveshaft put there by the dealer.
I'll keep checkingn though...

 

[Tom109]

The spring sound when going over a bump could very well be a transfer case cable hanging low and hitting the coupling on the drive shaft. There have been several with that issue including mine. It took me a long time to track down. Crawl under and inspect the area around the drive shaft, particularly the rear coupling of the front drive shaft or the front coupling of the rear shaft. Its an easy fix, take a heavy duty zip tie and secure it out of the way. Mine was missing a retention clip.

FWIW, i read your previous post that stated that, but i'm 99% sure that's not the issue with mine. I wish it was but everything seems tight and there's a zip tie holding the transfer case cable away from the driveshaft put there by the dealer.
I'll keep checkingn though...

It’s not the cable on mine either. The dealer put a
New plastic stand-off that’s supposed to hold the cable higher. I think it will break off fairly quickly.