DANA 20 TRANSFER CASE DETENT BALLS PLUGS & SPRINGS replacement

[conwaj]

I'm in need of replacing the detent springs in my dana 20 "T" case. Is this possilble while the case in the driveline? The screws holding the spings and balls look to be accessable but not sure how difficult it is to compress the springs while under the vehicle. Thanks in advance.

 

[sykanr0ng]

If you have a body lift it is possible to reach them and work on them.

A few people on here have done it, once.
All of them have said they will drop the transfer case the next time they do that job.

 

[Viperwolf1]

The biggest problem is getting to them. A body lift will help as will access hole in the tunnel. The front side (driver) is not bad to get to. The rear side is where you're going to be fighting for access.

 

[JWMcCrary]

possible -YES, but never again, I'll pull the case.
AND, I will listen to Viper's advice next time. When I rebuilt my case with Tera Lows I added the adjustable detents, asked on here how tight to adjust them, Viper described how to do it, it felt too tight to me so I backed off of it a little......AND...guess what.......rear would jump out of gear, so I had to fight to tighten it up with a doubler which made access even worse.

 

[PaveBronco]

I suppose you can remove the crossmember and drop the jack as far as you dare leaning the whole engine and trans back to gain some access. Just make sure you watch for things hitting other things, that's a bad thing. Also if the reason for the spring replacement is its popping out of gear, the T case might need rebuilding, so you'll end up dropping it anyway...

 

[Glass Pony]

Even with my 2" body lift I had trouble getting my big paws up there. I had to get the wife to bail me out.:-[