4x4 use
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Cargo Master
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It depends where I am at. Generally I check for flats and more paint damage when I am in some of the sketchier stores/neighbohoods. Doesn't really bother me as its a truck but if I can perhaps catch it and get lucky enough to get video evidence I may be able to prosecute. FWIW I am used to checking rigs, during harvest I had to get out every time I stopped in the field to make sure the pipes which were already high aren't on the field to start a field fire. It took me maybe 2 minutes or less and the fact that I knew no fire was starting was worth it.
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Hey, glovemeister, do me a favor and fill out the rest of your profile so we can see where
you're located, would ya? Click on User CP in the upper LH corner, there'll then be a list of
items in the LH column you can edit & adjust.
Thanks!
you're located, would ya? Click on User CP in the upper LH corner, there'll then be a list of
items in the LH column you can edit & adjust.
Thanks!
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Cargo Master
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That is the first thing I said too. I want something I know is engaged. Really why I could this year of truck. New enough to be dependable, and old enough I can have a shot at working on it. I can work on my 95 Dodge but really it has only enough computer to mess things up and not enough to actually make any changes.
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My father has the kind where he just pushes a button on the dash in his 2000 Explorer and
one side recently stopped working, turns out a PO had spliced into the wires somewhere
underneath the truck which of course came loose and shorted out requiring a several-
hundred-dollar repair.
In any event, when those motors stop working and you can't get OUT of 4WD yet you still
have to drive 150 miles on dry pavement to get home, well, travel at 40 MPH becomes
painfully slow....
one side recently stopped working, turns out a PO had spliced into the wires somewhere
underneath the truck which of course came loose and shorted out requiring a several-
hundred-dollar repair.
In any event, when those motors stop working and you can't get OUT of 4WD yet you still
have to drive 150 miles on dry pavement to get home, well, travel at 40 MPH becomes
painfully slow....
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Cargo Master
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Yep which is why if I bought a new truck I would buy a Dodge. The mechanical shift tcase are better than the Ford push button. I doubt they are trouble but I just like to keep it simple. That would really suck!
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I didn't realize you could get auto hubs and still have a manual transfer case lever in the floor, but I looked it up and apparently you could, though it must not be very common. In that case you would have to stop like was described in a previous post. But the 4wd systems that have the pushbutton and no stick in the floor, you do not have to stop to go from 2wd to 4wd. It takes care of it all by itself. It has speed sensors in the transfer case, the electric clutch and the electric shift motor. The computer box controls all this. All you have to do is select 4wd. You do have to stop though, if you want it to go into 4wd low with the pushbutton system. But you can't hurt it if you hit the button. It won't try to go into 4wd low if it senses the vehicle is moving.
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Cargo Master
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Yep my uncles v10 dodge has it and that thing is impressive! Yeah that is what my uncle explained with his dodge when were riding in it on some winter roads doing about fourty he hit the tcase forward and I about freaked on him. I was saying oh no won't that damage your tcase, and he laughed and explained it to me. Correct on the hubs also. Another uncle has an 03 Powerstroke Ford. That thing has so much power to push you back its unbelieveable. I took a few girls out in it to the movies one night and dangy boy that was a good time! I drove my bosses cummins with a 6 speed and wasn't as impressed as the Ford. Granted it was louder but it didn't seem to push me back. I guess I didn't really get on it though.
Heres a basic mock up of the paint scheme what do you guys think?
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sorry to steer things back to annoying things that can happen when your truck is parked at sketchy places but i hate dickbags who throw their trash in the bed of my truck. WTF, does it look like a garbage can?
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I had my hubs repacked a while back by what I consider now to be a questionable resource. I have grease coming out of my right front and the left front is making loud grinding noises when I turn right at speeds over 30. I jacked up the front end and noticed that the axles were turning in either the locked or free position. After taking the caps off, looking around, and putting everything back together, the right front no longer turns, but the left does. I'm going to take it to a more reputable mechanic Monday to have them take a look at it. I just don't know enough to do the work myself.