4x4 front hub
I'm familiar with Ford's vacuum actuated front hubs on their 4x4s and was able to add an EGR solenoid into the system that can be energized to prevent the hubs from engaging on rare occasions when I w...
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Huntindog wrote:
Be careful with 2 low. It puts a lot of torque to the axles. On some vehicles the manual warns about too much torque in 2 low damaging the axle. This is not much of a problem in 4 low as there are two axles recieving torque
You might have a point, I don't know much about 4X4. My limited understanding is 2-lo would be when you have no traction issues, but wanted to move real slow. Engine speed would never be much above idle. I don't know what the reduction is in the transfer case, but looking at the graph of torque output it would need to be pretty deep to match max.
Now for 1 of my off the wall ideas; Could lock-out hubs be put on a front wheel drive car, use to tow 4 down? Or on the back of rear wheel drive 4 down?
