Please Help, Axle Shift Motor?

hey guys it's me again, I just bought a 90 cherokee, my problem is that when I shift into 4 wheel drive the front driveshaft is turning but my axle is not engaging, I was told it could be the Axle shift motor, I put the truck up and looked and the motor is really loose, you can twist it with one finger, Is it suppose to be like this? where can I get a new one? there are 3 vacuum lines that run to it, 2 on the inside towards the diff, of which have vacuum to them, and one on the outside towards the wheel, which I could not feel any vacuum, any help on this would be much appreciated, thanks

if you do some searching through the older posts here (I'm thinking I saw it in august, maybe september), there was a nice post, complet with pics and a step by step "how to", for replacing the vacume system with a manually operated one. (if I remember corectly it used something lie a manual choke cable, in stead of the vacuum system).

not only was this more reliable (and cheaper as I racal than fixing hte vacuum system), but it also gave you the option of having your rig in 4-lo, and disengaging the front axel. in effect giving you another option of 2wd-low range. (very handy if you need to make a sharp turn and don't want to shift out of low)

WOW, I just wanted to extend my greatest of appreciation to Jeepman, dale has gone way out of his way and to the extreme to help me with this including several websites that will help me fix my problem. He really is a stand up guy, I don't know how I can thank him, I can now solve my problem for good for less than 20 bucks. better than those other kits they are selling for about 250, THANKS DALE YOUR THE JEEPMAN!!!!!

WOW, I just wanted to extend my greatest of appreciation to Jeepman, dale has gone way out of his way and to the extreme to help me with this including several websites that will help me fix my problem. He really is a stand up guy, I don't know how I can thank him, I can now solve my problem for good for less than 20 bucks. better than those other kits they are selling for about 250, THANKS DALE YOUR THE JEEPMAN!!!!! THANKS ANYTIME YOU NEED HELP JUST GIVE A HOLLER [email protected] :banghead: