Any ideas?

"Slant6" (slant-6) 07/02/2016 at 17:13 • Filed to: None

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Why there is a spring hanging off my frame?

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Also do you think a trasfercase could replace that tail thing? If I didn’t have to replace the transmission a 4x4 swap would be way more realistic.

Steve in Manhattan > Slant6 07/02/2016 at 17:22

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Looks like a part of an old drum brake setup ... I got nuthin.

TheHondaBro > Slant6 07/02/2016 at 17:22

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Why is there a frame around your spring?

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Slant6 07/02/2016 at 17:23

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Part of the shifter linkage? Thats what it was on our micras (those damn springs failed on all 3 ive been around).

Slant6 > Steve in Manhattan 07/02/2016 at 17:24

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I do have rear drums, but they’re not missing anything. It looks like it’s supposed to suspend a cable or something, but the E brake is a good 6 inches away.

Slant6 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 07/02/2016 at 17:25

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It could be but it’s right next to the rear leaf spring mount. Kinda far from the shifter.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Slant6 07/02/2016 at 17:35

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Hmm its my only guess really.

lone_liberal > Slant6 07/02/2016 at 17:37

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I'd guess it's there to keep your e-brake cable tensioned.

Slant6 > lone_liberal 07/02/2016 at 17:41

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I tried attaching it and it wouldn’t reach.

lone_liberal > Slant6 07/02/2016 at 17:46

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Hmmmm...Then it must be there to produce weird “sproing” noises and drive you nuts.

Die-Trying > Slant6 07/02/2016 at 17:58

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its there for the e-brake cable........ you just need to man up, and really put out on it to get it to reach.........

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Slant6 07/02/2016 at 18:03

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No guarantees that spring is even from your truck. Could have been kicked up off the road and caught by chance. It looks a lot like a throttle return spring. My Lada also has a similar one to keep the clutch release fork tensionned against the slave cylinder, although I’m not convinced it’s OEM, or that there shouldn’t be some other kind of retainer on it... I’d say put it somewhere safe until you find what it’s for.

Sometimes you might get lucky and all you need to do to attach a transfer case is remove the tail housing from a 2wd tranny and then bolt up the adapter for a tcase, but in my experience with Jeep stuff, you also need to completely dissasemble the transmission and replace output shafts and other things, which are pretty well only obtainable by completely tearing down a 4x4 transmission, so it’s generally the same cost and less work just to swap out the whole trans. Also especially with AMC Jeep stuff, there’s about a bajillion different possibilities for the trans output shafts and most aren’t compatible with all of the tcase input shaft options so it’s usually easiest to find a trans and tcase that were mated from the factory. But YMMV. I’d suggest a google search, cause there’s gonna be a forum post about 4x4 swapping it somewhere if it’s a fairly common 4x4 platform.

Scott > Slant6 07/02/2016 at 18:13

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The spring looks like the kind of spring you’d find in your drum brakes. Makes me wonder if someone hung it there while doing work on the drums and forgot about it.

“Also do you think a transfercase could replace that tail thing?”

I'm not sure... but I'm thinking if you don't know what the name is for that "tail thing" the answer is likely no.

Die-Trying > Slant6 07/02/2016 at 18:59

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LINKY

Slant6 > Die-Trying 07/02/2016 at 19:00

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You win!

Slant6 > Die-Trying 07/02/2016 at 19:13

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Upon further inspection mine doesn’t look like that though.

Maybe it was a manufacturer error, got the Edge mixed up with a regular 2wd.

Die-Trying > Slant6 07/02/2016 at 19:14

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SWEET...... onto the tailshaft housing question......... YOU will have to do some research, and find out if the output shaft from the 2wd trans has the same size, and spline count as the 4wd trans. AND then you need to check the diffences in length between the two, and determine (providing shaft size, and splines are the same)whether the length of the 2wd will bury into the transfercase + adapter completely. then, since it probably wont check and see if the shaft is splined far back enough to be able to cut off the excess, so that it fits in the space provided.

its easier to just buy the 4wd trans and case.......... in a 4wd frame

Die-Trying > Slant6 07/02/2016 at 19:32

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the spring is just there to keep it from wandering into the tire.........

dont overthink it..........

Slant6 > Die-Trying 07/02/2016 at 19:57

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I have the 4wd frame already, just not the 4wd bits. But if I was to do it at all I’d definitely need a donor truck.

Die-Trying > Slant6 07/02/2016 at 20:14

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does the frame already have matching drive axles in it at least??? but yeah, save the headache of trying to scrounge mismatched parts, and just get the trans+tranfercase already mated up.

Slant6 > Die-Trying 07/02/2016 at 20:29

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It’d probably just be better to buy a 4x4 truck.