Well Jr took the zuk through a pretty substantial ditch that crosses a pipeline near the house last Thursday and as he was climbing out, something snapped and the drivetrain sounded like all hell broke loose. In 4wd it shook and popped unmercilessly. Upon inspection Saturday, found that both rubber transfer case bushings on the passenger side mount had torn in half. Being that I was going up to the deer lease Sunday, I had to come up with a benchtop fix. Parts houses dont carry those busings, so I wandered around the parts store for 15 minutes and came up with a couple of 1-7/8" rubber freeze plugs. I bought a couple of 1-1/2" long 5/16 bolts, nuts, locks and fender washers.
I utilized the rubber portion of the freeze plugs as the rubber snuffers and bolted directly where the factory rubbers were mounted.
I put 50+ miles on her Sunday at the lease and the entire drivetrain has lost all of its shake and shimmy that it used to have. I re-checked the bolts tonite to make sure they were not wallowing out the mounting holes in the tcase mounting brackets and all looks GOOD to GO!!!! I'll update my findings after a couple more hard 4wd woods trips.
Gary
