4x4 wheel speed difference
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4x4 wheel speed difference
I heard that when you have your truck in 4X4 and your doing say 60kmh that your front wheels are actually only geared to do 59.3kmh. These numbers aren't exact, but what i am getting at is that your front wheels are geared to go a little bit slower than your rear wheels. Is this true? and why is this? Is it designed like this?
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From: Chestermere,Alberta
You really are not supposed to be using 4x4 at those speeds unless you are dead straight.When the wheels turn the front wheels (both left and right) acually turn at different speeds compared to the rear wheels.That is where I have seen transfer cases split in two or front diffs just explode.The rears allways seem to be fine.
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I was talking about speed in Kilometers an hour (Canadian here) so 60 isn't that fast.Why would you have 4.12 gears in the rear and 4.11 in the front. I would assume that things would be prone to breaking as was mewntioned in another post here.
