That's a rough maxx. Full year down and cleaning after checking to see if it starts and runsgood. The tear down and detailing will allure you to see what else is you're up on it.
Ok so I have a 2.5 relatively stock. Everything world great but the transfer case. Sometimes it will go in reverse but most times it won't. Servo is working fine and compresses the spring fully. Even set it to reverse and tried with pliers to get it to change and wouldn't budge. Some times when...
I would keep the dremmel away from it.even with a delicate touch its too easy to over do it. Learned that lesson the hard way too. If your pins are straight which I doubt they are, try some wd40 and spend some time flexing the suspension.
I learned a long tome ago the hard way to steer clear of integy stuff. rpm arms and any other brand besides integy aluminum bulk heads.surprised you didn't trash the chassis too.