4WD Question
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4WD Question
Quick question: Tonight when I came home, half way through my neighborhood before some hills I put my truck in 4wd. When I put it in 4wd it made a grinding noise in the front left and possibly the right but I couldn't tell. When I kicked it out of 4wd the noise eased for about 5 seconds and went away. What's going wrong? I have a 91' F150 with auto 4wd.
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dont think so, i always shifted at a dead stop. sounds like those auto hubs are shot(stripped out). or it could be bad u joints. but the best way to unlock the hubs after shifting out of 4x4 is in reverse for 10 ' or so. had the same problem, so i switched to the manual lockouts. unfortunetlly for me, its a striped out axle shaft. so i am doing a d60 solid axle swap in the near future. hopefully its just your hubs, or bad u joint.
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Since I see you're from WV too, do you know of anywhere that rebuilds them?
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I have no idea, but i imagine you could get a parts kit, I've rebuilt manual hubs, can't be too much different. A shop should be able to do it, but it'd prolly cost a good deal in labor.
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From: Tobyhanma, PA
I can't find any places that have them, all the threads I read go the way of "switch to manuals hubs, autos are junk". You could try a local dealership, or I believe they were made by Warn. You could look them up and see what they say.
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You put new auto hubs on expect to replace them at least once sooner or later.
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