4WD question
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Fleet Mechanic
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From: Wasilla, AK
4WD question
When I previously lived in Alaska I would lock in the hubs when the first snow hit and keep them locked till spring. With the newer electronic 4WD version would you lock in the one hub or leave it unlocked and just depend on the system to do what it is told?
Truck will not go off road, highway use only.
Truck will not go off road, highway use only.
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From: Itinerant
I've never locked a hub in auto only and just turn the **** on the dash. This is wether on road or off road. I do turn the hub position once a month just to make sure it turns for if I need to lock them in.
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From: Green Bay Wi
I had an auto hub fail last fall, I haven’t bothered to get it fixed. So I do lock my hubs manually. I didn’t bother locking the hubs manually on the 2020 I currently have until the hub failed as it quickly went into 4wd. I used lock the hubs manually on a 2016 I had, because it was sluggish to go into 4wd. So it worked best to just get out and lock the hubs when I knew I was going to need 4wd. I do use 4wd fairly often on forest roads. I would much rather have manual 4wd than a switch for 4wd.
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From: Whittier, CA
When I previously lived in Alaska I would lock in the hubs when the first snow hit and keep them locked till spring. With the newer electronic 4WD version would you lock in the one hub or leave it unlocked and just depend on the system to do what it is told?
Truck will not go off road, highway use only.
Truck will not go off road, highway use only.
If I was on pavement all winter I probably would not do that, but no harm if you choose to.
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From: Everywhere and nowhere
In south central Alaska I wouldn't lock my vacuum hubs unless it was really nasty out. Most of the time it was only side roads that would be a sheet of ice from either being in the shade and never getting sun or from people driving on the snow immediately after it snowed and then it froze in a sheet. If I lived somewhere like Fairbanks where the roads are a sheet of ice all winter I would lock the hubs at the beginning and unlock them during breakup.
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