Encho,

What is odd, is if you look at the next message where it is first quoted, the hubs are noted correctly!

 

When I first got the Bronk I took off the autos and put Warn premium's on. Never looked back.
The bottom pic above of the Standard's look just like what all 6 of my
Rangers had on them. They was always breaking in some way. I have the Auto hubs
I took off and they are in great shape. If anyone wants them PM me and pay shipping. I will never use them.
When I installed the premiums I lubed them lightly with molly lithium.
Even when freezing and muddy my young boys can turn them in or out.

 

Oops, typo. I'll fix it in my post.

In the original picture I had the hubs named correctly, that picture was the one quoted by Seabiscuit. But I had the age of the Premiums wrong, plus I realized that saying "2 months old" wouldn't mean so much if this thread gets pulled up a while from now, so I "corrected" that but blew it worse. I think the picture is right in my post now, but the first two versions still show up where Seabiscuit and Encho quoted them. And no, I'm not trying to hide anything but the editing (I hate it when people edit their posts after being called out on an error and make it look like they hadn't been wrong). I am putting "reasons for editing" in as I edit my posts. And Encho, thanks for catching my error.

 

Thanks for all the good info. I think i will try being lazy for a while and put on the autolocks first. If they give any trouble, out the door they go! I have one other question, When I swapped the hubs off the 94 ttb, the autolocks had a spacer and snap ring behind them on the stub shaft. The manuals on the 93 D60 did not. The D60 stub shafts do not have a groove for the snap ring. Can I put the spacer on without the snap ring and not have any issues or do I need to fab a groove with a die grinder? My 89 ttb has manuals but I didn't look to see if it has spacers and snap rings. Whaddaya think?

 

They haven't broken, but I wish I'd have got the Premiums already. My Warn Standard hubs won't disengage reliably. Manual hubs often don't really engage or disengage when you turn the dial, but rather they get spring loaded to move once they aren't loaded.

But on these new Warn Standards the dial wants to spring to the "locked" position once you turn them out of the detent at "free." At first they would always stay in the "free" position until they unlocked, but now that it's cold one of them always pops the dial back to "lock" and it never disengages.

I'm going to have to figure out how to contact Warn...

 

Something certainly isn't right. Wrong or insufficient grease? Water trying to freeze? I've never had this particular problem. There have been a few times I've had to back up in an "S" fashion so that I could even turn the dial to unlock, but never had it "spring" to either position.

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The standard Warn hubs have been quarter turn for at least ten years now. No problems to report with mine, and they've been "exercised" at least three times a week for the past eight years, not to mention the abuse they saw previously.

 

With the one set of Warn standards I had before (OE on an '85 F-250) and many sets of Warn premiums, turning the dial to "free" usually stretched some springs inside the hub which stayed stretched until the hub got unloaded at which time the inner workings of the hub would unlock. Because of those springs you didn't need to back up in an "S" or anything to turn the dial. But the dial pretty much stayed wherever you put it. The new standard hubs I have also have a torsion spring that snaps the dial to the "lock" position. They did that even before I installed the hubs. A detent holds it in the "free" position, and once you're out of the detent the torsion spring snaps it to the "lock" position.

But what happened yesterday was that I turned the hub to "free" and it snapped right back to "lock." I tried 3 or 4 times before it stayed in "free", but then driving home I had the tell-tale vibration that means a hub is still locked. When I got off the freeway and looked at it, the dial had popped back to the "lock" position.

By the way, after a few more tries at home I got it to stay in the "free" position again. It was still there in the morning, I had no vibration driving to work, and it's still in the "free" position after driving to work. So I'm OK right now. But I'm not happy with these hubs.

I did find the "contact" info on Warn's web site last night, but haven't heard back yet.

Odd, when I was shopping on-line for these hubs this summer I know I saw a web site saying the standards required 0.9 turns to lock/unlock, and it was being touted as a good feature (which I now agree with). I was thinking that was the Warn web site (I know I looked at Warn and one or two retailers). So I was assuming it was a recent change.

 

I'm aware of the springs and how they pop the internals into the catch or detent. Still have had them lock up and had to do the serpentine backing to get them out. Used to be that you could buy "rebuild" kits for them that used to have those springs in them. Don't know if those are still available or not and certainly should not be a problem with a new installation.

I have never had them move, on their own, from whatever position I have moved them too like you were describing though.

 

That's a new one (to me at least). I wonder why Warn thought that was necessary. That sounds like it will be an issue as the detent wears down over time from use.

 

Thought I'd close the loop on my Warn Standard hub that wouldn't stay unlocked. It always seemed to work better when it was warmer, and worse when it's colder, but this in Minnesota in the winter. After having to keep them locked for 3 straight weeks because I couldn't get the one to stay unlocked it was time to do something.

Warn had gotten back to me and was sorry I was having trouble and suggested I contact the place I bought them. Long story short, Jeff's Bronco Graveyard sold me a new set of Warn Premiums. After I had swapped them I returned the Standard's and they refunded my original purchase price of the Standards, the original shipping & handling fee, and my return shipping cost! The Premiums seem to be functioning just fine!