We waited to let the heat go down slightly before I commenced to cooking. I turned the truck around to make some shade from the sun.
We chowed down with gusto. Camp cooking at it's best.
We had been visiting others about Ron's lack of low range and decided to check some things in order to rule issues out. Ron did find the shifter adjustment was slightly off to start, not allowing the lever to pull the shifter all the way to the end of the detent for low in the 241. Adjustment made, low would still not engage. We had 2hi, 4hi and essentially 2 neutral positions. We pulled the fluid to look for chunks and or flakes in the oil. None were found. Clean and fresh without any hint of metal. After much discussion, one person that came back to give a plausible reason for the lack of low being the low range fork either lost the roll pin that holds it to the shift rail or it sheered it off. Either way the only way low range was going to work required teardown. We agreed he'd try to run in high range with the low granny gear of the NV4500 and his rear ARB for added traction. So here's our first bit of mechanical adversity we have to work through. On Hell's Revenge no less too.