Ford 4 Wheel Drive Question
All, I am in the market for a Ford F-250 SD. I am coming across a lot of them with the 4WD stick on the floor vs. on the dash with a dial. Aside from it being the "old school" look, is there any pr...
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ducksquasher wrote:
Thanks everyone...a little lost with the locking hubs portion. So the shifter and the dash dial will not engage the same? I figured that they would serve the same purpose just in a different format? If you want true locking 4WD low you still need to get out and lock the hubs with either, correct?
You do not need to get out and lock hubs, for 4H, or 4L, with the dash dial. The electronic shift on the fly has a vacuum operation to lock hubs when dial is turned, hubs set to auto. If this system fails, due to hitting an obstacle/whatever, which has caused damage to the vacuum line, you will then have to get out to turn hub from auto to lock. An example...driving through a picked corn field, catching vacuum hose on corn stalk. No...I do not drive in corn fields.
Jerry
