Sunday wheelin damage

[chuzie]

Houston we may have a problem.

I extracted the two sheared bolts from the CV on my frt driveshaft and cleaned out the threads. I had to use the drill to clean two of the holes on the yoke in order to get the bolts through.

I am having issues with getting two of the bolts tightened. One will go almost all the way but it is has way too much resistance for freshly cleaned threads and the other bolt on that ear will not even engage the threads. I am thinking I may have slightly bent the yoke when the driveshaft came off.

I rotated the shaft 180 on the yoke and the same hole locations on the yoke are giving me the same problems (1 too much resistance and the other not threading). This tells me that the driveshaft is ok but the yoke is jacked.

I did file down some gnarled and malformed metal on the ears that I thought was protruding enough to interfere with proper mating but that obviously was not the issue.

Unless someone thinks I am going down the wrong path with this line of thinking, I am going to assume I need to start looking in to a new yoke.

Is the yoke on the front the same as the yoke on the back in terms of hole spacing?

I could do one last confirmation and try swapping the front and rear driveshafts just to finally eliminate the driveshaft as the culprit.

Is the yoke a line replaceable item (i.e. can change it without dissembling or removing the transfer case)? Looking at the illustrated parts breakdown, it appears that a couple of bolts and the retaining nut will allow it to come off. Is this correct? If so, anyone have a yoke for a D20 xfer case?