So today in Portland we had some weather hit that shut down the city... but...the UPS guy brought my transfer case linkage sooooo...
I got it installed. It was simple in theory but those dang rubber bushing things are legit, I am definitely not worried that this will ever come off without a giant pry bar and some PB Blaster.
I realized tonight that the reason the Advanced linkage is like this is because of the way that they had routed the exhaust up and over the driveline and under the this section in between the transmission and transfer case. Ya sure sounds like a good idea, but not really. Rerouting the exhaust would have been a much simpler solution to this whole thing.
Before with an Advanced linkage -
After with the FORD STOCK LINKAGE -
I haven't had a chance to drive it yet with it installed, but I popped it out of 4wd while I was trying to get the Advanced one off so I wanted to go put it into some sort of gear. Its a lot easier, like crazy easier, something about the way that other one applied the pressure made it feel awkward to shift the transfer case but now its smooth as butter.
Oh and like I said it was snowing here today, here you can see where i was laying doing this work...