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Transfer cases are cheap and it only takes a couple of hours to swap. I drove for a few hundred miles before changing mine. If it's slipping out won't fail catastrophically, it will just possibly get worse until you can't move. I took mine apart afterwards and aside from the chain being stretched everything was in good order.