Thanks Jim T. Sounds much easier than the auto hubs. Do you still have to stop and put it in neutral before you select 4wd?
Dave
Have you not got the instruction sticker on your sun visor? If not, it says you should only select 4WD in slippery conditions (you get transmission wind up otherwise)...you can, as Jim says, do this on the fly, up to the low 20s if I recall. Doesn't need to be in neutral at all.
But if you want to select 4WD
low then you
must stop and select neutral first.
In either 4WD high or low, as you say, you must reverse approx one metre after selecting 2WD in order to disengage the auto hubs.
Big deal.
With manual hubs you have stop and get out in order to go to each front wheel in turn and select 'drive' on the hub, then get back in the car and select 4WD as well, otherwise theres no drive to the front axle. Then when you've finished, you stop, get out again, go to each front wheel in turn, deselect 'drive' then get back in the car again and put it back into 2WD.
What????
But no need to reverse this time cos thats just to disengage auto hubs.:doh
No offence to poeople who've got 'em but its beyond me why people think manual hubs are a good idea - they are prehistoric add-ons for the sort of geeks that drive Land Rovers because they thing everything manual must be good.
I've done 270,000 miles plus in a Maverick and two Terranos in all sorts of conditions and NEVER had snap rings break. If they do, replacing them is a complete piece of piss and I suspect the only reason people suffer repeat breakage is because they don't refit them correctly in the first place.
I mean please don't tell me that one of the worlds biggest manufacturers spent more than 15 years building an expensive 4x4 with a go-anywhere reputation that stands or falls on a couple of twopenny-halfpenny snap rings cos I'd suggest politely thats bollox.
Oh I love Sundays!!:thumbs
