Up to yer nuts in it thread

[Gray git]

But it a 4x4, can't understand why it got stuck

I agree bob it's maddening sometimes!

[Richard 1234]

One of our twonks that does not know how to engage a freewheeling hub:banghead:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm going to admit to being really thick now! What's a free wheeling hub and how would it help?

Also do I have one on my navara as I got it stuck not long ago with trailer on and it took an hour to free myself!

[Sawchip]

I'm going to admit to being really thick now! What's a free wheeling hub and how would it help?

Also do I have one on my navara as I got it stuck not long ago with trailer on and it took an hour to free myself!

 

Early Landys and some other 4x4' had a way of disengaging the drive at the front wheel hubs for less Drag when on the road in 2wheel drive . You have to manually turn most of them on each hub or no 4 wheel drive is transmitted when you engage it.

[IVECOKID]

Look at the front wheel hub and you will see red locking hub switch to engage diff.

 

Ste

[Richard 1234]

Ok thanks. What does it need to be set to? For normal driving and getting out of trouble?

[Sawchip]

Ok thanks. What does it need to be set to? For normal driving and getting out of trouble?

 

Be advised ..I believe ..SOME ..4x4s with these hubs don't have a centre diff and you will wind up the transmutation if you drive in 4wheel drive with hubs looked on very grippy ground. Thats why the Landy and others with permanent 4 wd have a centre diff between front and rear axles.

[Richard 1234]

Be advised ..I believe ..SOME ..4x4s with these hubs don't have a centre diff and you will wind up the transmutation if you drive in 4wheel drive with hubs looked on very grippy ground. Thats why the Landy and others with permanent 4 wd have a centre diff between front and rear axles.

 

 

Yeah I knew that much as my l200 had no centre diff and that would scrub tyres if you left it on by mistake after coming off a field for example onto a road

[pycoed]

Free wheeling hubs are inventions of the devil. The manual ones are worst, you have to step out into 12" of sh1t & get your hands covered in it to switch them on & then get you hands covered again with more sh1t to switch them off. Brilliant idea - NOT.

Mine are automatic, worked by vacuum via a 3mm ID rubber tube that may or may not be connected to the hub when you need 4WD, so you never know if they are going to kick in or not. Even when they work, it takes several seconds to pull the cogs into engagement, which isn't ideal to say the least.

Is there a pickup with a centre diff & full time 4WD instead of all this part time rubbish?

[Sawchip]

Yeah I knew that much as my l200 had no centre diff and that would scrub tyres if you left it on by mistake after coming off a field for example onto a road

 

Ahh..same with a brava i had.. Ok in snow but not so good on a trailer on a tarmac hill when a little more grip was called for. Thats when permanent 4 comes into its own .Hubs out in 2wd…in in 4wd is about the long and the short. Our friend seems to have not engaged the hubs after putting the Hi Lux in 4 wd.

[Richard 1234]

Ahh..same with a brava i had.. Ok in snow but not so good on a trailer on a tarmac hill when a little more grip was called for. Thats when permanent 4 comes into its own .Hubs out in 2wd…in in 4wd is about the long and the short. Our friend seems to have not engaged the hubs after putting the Hi Lux in 4 wd.

 

 

So if you don't mess with a switch on the hub the 4wd won't com on?