Do you engage your 4x4 system periodically?

[Flak]

No. Don't engage 4x4 or locker on pavement unless it's wet from rain or snow. It can bind, and if traction is too great, break sht in there. It's not limited slip. Look at 'Wind up'

I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying. If the point is you're just going to engage everything, e.g. lock the drivetrain, you're not causing binding. You are on the brakes in neutral anyway? So you engage 4L, lock the diffs and roll back and forth with the steering straight.

I don't understand how you're going to cause binding without actually driving on it/turning.

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[RangerDangerStranger]

I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying. If the point is you're just going to engage everything, e.g. lock the drivetrain, you're not causing binding. You are on the brakes in neutral anyway? So you engage 4L, lock the diffs and roll back and forth with the steering straight.

I don't understand how you're going to cause binding without actually driving on it/turning.

I mean yeah, but it's probably better to exercise it just a bit. Find a dirt patch.

 

[Blowndodge]

If the owners manual doesn't call for it then why all the "theories" that are just that, theories...

 

[Jason B]

If the owners manual doesn't call for it then why all the "theories" that are just that, theories...

Many of us have PTSD from the days of Ford's Pulse Vacuum hub locking, that never worked when you really needed them.

 

[SnyperX]

All the time in the Winter when the roads are crap.......Summer when on fire roads and camping....

 

[Adventure Ranger]

I spend a fair bit of time off road in the summer, so it gets used a few times a month easily. Winter for us its in 4H probably 75+ % of the time between icy roads and snowfall. Just did a 2400 km trip through the Canadian Rockies with 90% of it in 4H doing anywhere from 50 - 110 KMs/hr. Its such a stable and predictable truck when in 4x4.

 

[jrRaptor]

Mine does it for me randomly so I don't have to - usually when I place my Yeti in the cup holder or some other unknown random inconvenient time while driving.

 

[Maybe]

4wd launches on pavement ain’t gonna hurt it.

 

[Hootbro]

Have a 1 mile straight stretch of paved road on my daily work commute that I exercise the 4x4 once a week.

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