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Amicus 10-21-2018 01:35 PM
Need 4x4 help.
 
Gentleman,

Got this truck about 2 months ago and have gone thru all the fluids and filters. Yesterday I got stuck at the ranch it was very muddy. Noticed that my front tires were not spinning. So today lifted truck off ground and locked hubs. My wife was in the drivers seat. Every thing seemed to work front shaft is spinning but front tires were not. I could here a little grinding on the passenger side but no tire was spinning. Axle was spinning. On the drives side nothing was moving. Removed differential cover not really sure what I'm looking at but everything seemed to be working. I'm hoping to attach a video of every thing please let me know what u think. How can I load video?

Amicus 10-21-2018 01:45 PM
Also need help loading a video, thanks

aawlberninf350 10-21-2018 02:46 PM
Truck have ESOF or manual transfer case? OE hubs or Warns, Mile Marker etc? Sounds like the hubs are not locking in correctly.

axmrdr 10-21-2018 03:06 PM
Video help : Can you upload to youtube and copy and paste the link here?

4X4 help. My truck has to be driven a little ways (30 ft to 300 ft) before the 4WD 'locks in'. Not saying this is normal, just my experience. It's my first 4WD in 42 years of owning vehicles. It's too late if I do it after I'm stuck.

Stewart_H 10-21-2018 03:27 PM
Originally Posted by aawlberninf350 (Post 18261690)
Truck have ESOF or manual transfer case? OE hubs or Warns, Mile Marker etc? Sounds like the hubs are not locking in correctly.
Please answer this ^^^ post.

It sounds like the hubs might be ESOF and are having a vacuum problem.

Stewart

Amicus 10-21-2018 03:50 PM
Originally Posted by Stewart_H (Post 18261721)
Please answer this ^^^ post.

It sounds like the hubs might be ESOF and are having a vacuum problem.

Stewart
Esof and oem hubs.

This is is my thought. I'm sure my passenger side hub is not locking for what ever reason but axle is spinning. Since the passenger hub is not locking but the axle spinning there is no traction so power is not being transferred to driverside wheel. Which is the way limited slip works? Hope I'm making sense. All wheels are off the ground and I manually locked hubs Thanks for the response.

Amicus 10-21-2018 05:00 PM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qRL1CfDqz2s



https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0CJ5K37xGA
here's 2 videos. My first time trying to load videos on you tube. I can't get all video to show. But u can see that the driver side tire/axle is not spinning. The passenger side axle is spinning

Stewart_H 10-21-2018 05:08 PM
Originally Posted by Amicus (Post 18261737)
Esof and oem hubs.
Head over to the Excursion forum and click on the Tech Folder sticky thread (the "Read First" threads), scroll to the second post, then down to the subsection for Axles, Hubs, Ball Joints and look for the link "4x4 troubleshooting" as well as the many ESOF related links below that one.

Stewart

'88 E-350 10-21-2018 10:44 PM
Since the axle is spinning it's obviously not a problem within the transfer case, must be an issue in the hub area.

'88 E-350 10-21-2018 10:50 PM
Originally Posted by Amicus (Post 18261737)


Esof and oem hubs.

This is is my thought. I'm sure my passenger side hub is not locking for what ever reason but axle is spinning. Since the passenger hub is not locking but the axle spinning there is no traction so power is not being transferred to driverside wheel. Which is the way limited slip works? Hope I'm making sense. All wheels are off the ground and I manually locked hubs Thanks for the response.
This has nothing to do with limited slip. LS is something in the differential that helps send power to both axles more equally than without LS. If your left axle isn't spinning my guess is that the left hub is locking, but since the right isn't locking all the spin is going to that side because you don't have LS. If it had LS the left side would probably spin the tire when off the ground, but wouldn't do much for actual driving traction with the right side disconnected at the hub.

pirate4x4_camo 10-22-2018 08:38 AM
regardless of what sort of hubs you have they are either not engaged or otherwise broken and not functioning.

if you have ESOF system then make sure that is working, then you can diagnosis the hubs.


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