My family came in to visit my wife and I as my birthday is coming up.

So my brother and I wanted to hit the trails, and everybody else wanted to tag along, so we went out, and it was doing fine, yea we were heavy so it was a little hard to get up the sloppy inclines, but it was doing good, only like 1 or 2 steep inclines stopped us in our tracks,

So finally we were heading home and I spotted a cool trail so off we go

We get to a point and there is a bump a steep drop off and a steep incline with a fast transition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http:...?v=VCOKZM2t4y4

My dad took a video

Well it seemed like all of the sudden the front axle wasnt engaging, BUT my "Part Time" light was on meaning that my front axle itself was engaged, but maybe the transfer case wasnt wanting to work.

I think maybe that the linkage wasnt pushing the transfer case all the way into 4Lo
when I installed it, I had to massage the plastic bushing to get it in to the shift lever

 

Damn I miss the desert.

 

man i miss those oregon mountains back there and the almost endless desert trails to cruise like that that always have an unsuspected spot like what you found!
do you wheel with 96xj on here?

 

Nah I havent, this is the first time I have wheeled the XJ here in Las Cruces, since I moved to NM something has always been wrong with the Jeep to the point that I didnt feel like getting stuck in teh desert, haha

 

Your profile states that you have a disconnect D/30, have you changed it or installed a manual lock on it?
A vacuum line could be your problem.

 

I just got out from underneath this bastard

anyways.

that was teh part that was puzzling me, the light was coming on which made me think it wasnt a vacuum problem, so I was thinking a linkage problem

I pulled off the vacuum motor and the fork is cracked, so that is why it wasnt engaging all the way, but enough to push the light switch