Bought a '95 F250 4X4 with auto hubs.
Took it out for the first time today to check out the 4X4.
The front tires never spun or grabbed. I assume the hubs are not locking. The driveline does spin.
Is there a way to troubleshoot this?
TIA

EDIT
Also, how do I know if it has standard or heavy duty suspension?
It has the tow and off road package.

 

Buy manual hubs!

 

That's my plan but I need to find out if that alone will fix it or if I have more serious problems.

 

With the tow package, your F-250 gets trailer light wiring and a rear sway bar. The off-road package adds a skid plate under the transfer case and an "off road" decal.

To troubleshoot the auto hubs, jack up the truck and put the front on jackstands so that both front wheels can spin free.

With the engine off and the transfer case in the normal 2-WD position, grab the front driveshaft (that leads from the front end of the transfer case) and turn it by hand. Both front hubs should engage and the front wheels will rotate.

Disengage the hubs by turning each wheel in the opposite direction that it spun when you engaged the hub.

You should be able to find the problem hub and then decide what to do about it.

For information. I had this problem at about 75K miles and dissassembled the problem hub, cleaned it in kerosene, lightly lubricated it and reassembled everything. Two months later the other hub acted up and got the same treatment. A couple of months after that one hub decided to engage itself ramdomly. At this point I installed manual hubs and realized that I should have done the conversion *much* earlier.

Lou Braun

 

Thanks for the input.

I assume that since my PSD doesn't say Super Duty, that I have the standard suspension? (Need to know to get hubs)

 

What's the Front GAWR listed as on your door tag? And, is your truck a regular, or extended cab?

 

The front is 4600 and it's a reg cab. Thanks.

 

If the truck has the full-floating rear axle and 8800 lb GVWR, it likely has the heavy duty suspension. Your truck won't say 'SuperDuty' on it, as that name was not used on F250's and F350's untill '99. In your year the 'Superduty' truck was a heavy duty dually chassis-cab with a monobeam front axle and heavier suspension and axles than an F350, sometimes referred to as an F450. I believe the 'F250 Heavy Duty' name didn't start being used untill '96 when Ford came out with the new body style F150's and made F250's with both the new body (light duty) and the old body (Heavy Duty).

 

The 4400lb axle should be a Dana 50 IFS. This equates to cost more for parts. I just did a auto to manual on a 96 f250 4400 lb axle. Had to buy the kit to convert to manual hubs. Warn has the hub and kit. I got the truck cheep the hubs were falling out . Some one tried to replace the auto hubs with the ford manual hubs. It is not a direct replacement. You must replace all the way back to the wheel bearing lock nut. Section 05-03a-1 ford f250 service manual. Do not know about the PSD but I do not think it came in anything but the 8600 mostly regular cab or 8800 xcab or crew cab.

 

no.....it is a direct replcement if you have the 5 screw hub. but if you own the dreaded 3 screw hub then yes you are require to purchase the conversion kit when converting to manual hubs!

-cutts-

 

did not know the 95-97 50ifs came with the 5 screw. Thought only the 44ifs.