Engaging 4x4 once a month

Lol

 

Nice!

This forum has helped me out quite a bit, a lot of quite knowledgeable guys on here. I learned a lot! Special thanks to @tonered, @hiPSI, @Shellshock, @ShimStack, @Superdave1.0, @BigWhiteTRD, @lapoltba, @7r41lbr34k3r,@splitbolt and of course @Jeff Lange. I’m sure I’m forgetting some... Awesome guys on TW, keep up the great work!

 

Tacoma narrows.

I drove over that bridge for a few years getting to sub base Bangor. Where the baddest ass weapons port.

 

Thanks!

 

You are welcome sir! My SFOB would not have been installed without your help Loving this tune BTW, towed a 6x12 Uhaul trailer full of stuff today and she did great. The 2lo mod was icing on the cake, I killed it backing up that bad boy, haha!

 

We seem to forget the gears...
Gears work best under load when they have worked together... gears that are not well meshed will be more prone to failure...

I’ve used 4x whenever possible early on to get them to wear-in... relatively easy to do on snowy roads...

 

This isn’t how gears work. They don’t work better because they’ve met eachother at least not in this application

 

How
Do they work?

 

Dang 10 miles per month? Lol. Luckily I live near farms. Every other month I just engage 4wd hi and low a few times within an 1/4 mile stretch of farm road. I primarily just want to engage/disengage and put a load on it.

 

Yes but is it true if you don't use it, you lose it?

 

I don't lock up the 4x4 til I hear glass and smell shit.

 

It'll get lubed and exercised even if you find a mile or 2 of straight road. I usually try to do it once every month or 2 in the summer if I don't make it off road but winters here (esp this past one) gave it a good work out

 

I can say this, after a year in the SR, the 4x4 engagement is way better now than when new. I run 4x4 5 times per week.

 

Are you sure that leaving hubs locked in will cause that kind of damage?

 

Thank you.

 

No.

 

I'm glad that you like it. It should not be transformational on an NA motor, but somehow is.

The 2LM does a great job for that.

It is definitely good to get the gears lapped in. It was a couple months before I could get a long drive in. When I stopped, I got my last whiff of warm paint coming off the rear diff.

Anecdotally, it seems like it. Actuators stay nice and free.

 

You are welcome sir!

 

Or just go off road once a month, either work.

 

No, not at all lol!.
We had engineers checking in the field on various projects that would take either a Bronco or K4 Blazer with 4X4 locked and loaded and would often forget to unlock them. Every now and then one develop an issue and opps!

But its the opps that gets you not the locked hubs if that makes sense