Hubs Stuck?
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Hubs Stuck?
Manually locked them last night to pull a car out of the snow, locked in 4-low, I left it locked in overnight. This morning when I went to put it back in 2-high, after resetting the hubs to auto, I had to go back and forth several times and back to nuetral, took several tries before it released. Is this common?
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Before the hubs released? It's not normal per se but I used to have to do that sometimes to get the left hub to completely unlock. Sometimes I had to keep going from LOCK to AUTO on the hub itself to free the dang thing up.
Using or at least switching everything in and out of 4WD on a regular basis is the key to keep everything working properly.
Using or at least switching everything in and out of 4WD on a regular basis is the key to keep everything working properly.
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Yup, it wouldn't come out of low range and the indicator showed that it was still in 4X4. I haven't had any problem between 2 and 4-high, it was the low range. Now that I think about it, it didn't engage low range right away either. Hmmmmm...
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I was confused. You title says "hubs stuck" but your problem seemed to be that the transfer case wouldn't come out of Lo range. Sorry for my inapplicable advice. 
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