Ford Ranger Archives - Transmission Digest
The BorgWarner 44-11 Transfer Case, Chapter 2

In last month’s article we looked at the mechanical operation of the BorgWarner 44-11 automatic all-wheel-drive transfer case, which replaces the BW 44-05 transfer case and is used in the Ford Explorer, Ranger and Mountaineer and Lincoln Aviator models. This month’s article is devoted to the electronic functions of this transfer case.

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Many times after an initial scan of the computer system, you find an electrically related solenoid code. If you’re lucky, a new solenoid fixes it, or maybe there’s a problem with the internal wiring – not so bad to fix these problems.

But then there are the times that these items do not take care of the problem. That usually means these days that an external wiring problem is causing that solenoid code.