Check your tires. The smallest variation of tire tread depth with these AWD systems (that are working correctly) will cause problems.
I have a 2005 Astro AWD. Went crazy chasing binding problems when I first bought the van. It had all sorts of issues including the PO putting the red transfer case fluid in it, and a bad encoder motor. Fixed both of those but was still getting some binding when parallel parking and tight turns. Was about to pull the transfer case and rebuild it until I came across a couple articles that solved my problem. The variation of my tires tread depth was too much, about 2/32 from the front and rears and was causing the awd to occasionally bind on turns. 4 new tires and no more binding, needed them anyway.
links to both articles:
http://tcase.rsgear.com/articles/2004_10.pdf
http://tcase.rsgear.com/articles/2007_12.pdf
I have a 2005 Astro AWD. Went crazy chasing binding problems when I first bought the van. It had all sorts of issues including the PO putting the red transfer case fluid in it, and a bad encoder motor. Fixed both of those but was still getting some binding when parallel parking and tight turns. Was about to pull the transfer case and rebuild it until I came across a couple articles that solved my problem. The variation of my tires tread depth was too much, about 2/32 from the front and rears and was causing the awd to occasionally bind on turns. 4 new tires and no more binding, needed them anyway.
links to both articles:
http://tcase.rsgear.com/articles/2004_10.pdf
http://tcase.rsgear.com/articles/2007_12.pdf