This thread is amazing. This exact situation just happened to me, the cable totally popped off the hi-low select knob thingie on top of the transfer case. Not doing anything extreme btw, just crawling up my very steep driveway with a few inches of snow/ice on it.
It was pretty shocking, all of a sudden there was a lot of vibrations and noise when the cable broke. The screen popped up ‘transfer case in neutral’. Couldnt shift to park, and as I was on a hill if I let off the brake i rolled backwards as I couldnt get it into any gears.
I walked up to the house (another 1/2 mile uphill ugh), found this thread, walked back down andwas able to finagle the cable back onto the knob enough to get it into Lo range. Crawled the rest of the way to the house into the garage.
I got insanely lucky I think because when I got under the car in the garage, i was able to manually push the knob (the cable had disconnected again ofc) on the top of the transfer case forward into Hi range. I must have parked in such a way that the gears were lined up perfectly because it was hard to shift forward but not almost impossible. The ‘L’ went away on the dash and I tooled around a little bit at the top of the hill to confirm it wasnt in low range anymore.
Anyways, I got lucky. I’m in Vermont’s northeast kingdom right now so roughly 200 miles from the nearest dealership. But it’s in high range and so is driveable even though the cable is fully disconnected at the transfer case. Thanks again for this thread and all the pictures!
It was pretty shocking, all of a sudden there was a lot of vibrations and noise when the cable broke. The screen popped up ‘transfer case in neutral’. Couldnt shift to park, and as I was on a hill if I let off the brake i rolled backwards as I couldnt get it into any gears.
I walked up to the house (another 1/2 mile uphill ugh), found this thread, walked back down andwas able to finagle the cable back onto the knob enough to get it into Lo range. Crawled the rest of the way to the house into the garage.
I got insanely lucky I think because when I got under the car in the garage, i was able to manually push the knob (the cable had disconnected again ofc) on the top of the transfer case forward into Hi range. I must have parked in such a way that the gears were lined up perfectly because it was hard to shift forward but not almost impossible. The ‘L’ went away on the dash and I tooled around a little bit at the top of the hill to confirm it wasnt in low range anymore.
Anyways, I got lucky. I’m in Vermont’s northeast kingdom right now so roughly 200 miles from the nearest dealership. But it’s in high range and so is driveable even though the cable is fully disconnected at the transfer case. Thanks again for this thread and all the pictures!
