Big problem, car is RWD sometimes.....

[AWDlaserRS]

I was leaving to work today and had to stop to let someone by, my road is very narrow. When I took off again the car was like creeping sideways with little to no traction I mean it was hard to get it to go straight, I was like WTF? so I open my door and only my rear tires are spinning. At onle point it really felt like the passenger side rear wheel was spinning backwards as the driver side rear wheel spun forwards kinda twisting the car Either that or it wasnt spinning. Is that even possible? By the way the passenger rear wheel area made some noise before hand but Im pretty sure it was just the brakes dragging a little. The road is covered in snow during all this. I then stopped and looked under the car no tranny oil leaking or anything like that and no visible problems. I get in and start back to my house. Now its AWD again What the hell? something is on the verge of breaking. When I get back to my house it becomes RWD again, luckily after I get up my driveway. I notice the car wont coast backwards with the clutch in. I had to put it in reverse to back down a incline to park it. What broke? Or is at near braking point? Ive heard of this happening before on here and it was the VCE in the tranny? or the transfer case? Whats the VCE?

 

[2gredspyder]

It could also be the center diff, not sure.

 

[TsiTalon9587]

It could also be the center diff, not sure.

Very possible. Typically you end up with rwd when your center diff lets go. I would check it out as soon as possiblel, because she it get worse, the debris that broke apart from it,( assuming it is broken) can damage the rest of the transmission.

 

[AWDlaserRS]

Don't worry I havent driven it since this happened 2 days ago, I dont want to cause any more damage. The thing that sucks is that I cant work on it right now either because the garage has 2 cars in it and theres a blizzard outside. :thumbdown Is there a way to test in any way to see what is broken before taking things apart?

 

[AWDlaserRS]

Something that might be relevent: I had to move it yesterday so my father could plow and it wasn't getting alot of traction, I noticed only 1 rear and 1 front wheel were spinning on oppsosite sides, dont think it did that before. Something definetally is real close to going because its still AWD when you first drive it and then it changes. :thumbdown