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I have a 91 4Runner. I was looking through my friends manual for his xterra and it said someting about driving in 4 HI once a month to keep everything working correctly. is that a good idea for my truck? I don't want to wear it out or anything. winter is approaching and i am just starting to wonder about it.
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It won't hurt anything as long as you do it on a loose surface. It's something that I do as well. Usually if I don't have an off-road trip planned I'll just take it up the local mountain for a quick 40 minute round trip just to keep everything lubed up.
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Originally Posted by slow_xc_star
I have a 91 4Runner. I was looking through my friends manual for his xterra and it said someting about driving in 4 HI once a month to keep everything working correctly. is that a good idea for my truck? I don't want to wear it out or anything. winter is approaching and i am just starting to wonder about it.
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With ADD you can still usually do it on a very straight stretch of low-speed road (like through a neighborhood). Just run it for 50' or so, it doesn't need to be too far.
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Originally Posted by superjoe83
if you have manual hubs, you can leave them unlocked and drive around in 4hi on any surface to do the same thing
Or bettery yet, get the thing off-road and wheel it like it was built to do!!!
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Originally Posted by 4Crawler
Or you can lock the hubs and stay in 2WD to do the same thing. The idea is to move all the front axle parts around, so they don't dry out, keeps the seals lubed as well.
Or bettery yet, get the thing off-road and wheel it like it was built to do!!!
Or bettery yet, get the thing off-road and wheel it like it was built to do!!!
Naturally, I haven't been doing this. Man, I need to go offroad more often!
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i just put mine in 4 hi when i go to the lake, its easier to pull my ski out, and it lubes allt he seals up . i go to the lake about 3 times a week, so it gets lubed good
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not to hijack but along the same thing, i hadn't gotten offroad in a while so i locked my fronts and drove around town for a little bit. When i brake, the front vibrates like crazy when im braking to a complete stop. then i free the hubs and its fine. whats going on up there to cause such a bad vibration?
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I usually run mine in 4HI about once a month, also. There is a 10 mile stretch of relatively straight country road on my way to work that I do it on, but I always do it on a rainy day. The manual says not to run it on a dry surface, if I recall.
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Originally Posted by EWAYota
not to hijack but along the same thing, i hadn't gotten offroad in a while so i locked my fronts and drove around town for a little bit. When i brake, the front vibrates like crazy when im braking to a complete stop. then i free the hubs and its fine. whats going on up there to cause such a bad vibration?
the front and rears brake at differnt speeds, and with the power trying to go to both, they cant, so its something getting shaken up as play..... normally the front driveline differentiating from the rear
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Originally Posted by jimabena74
the front and rears brake at differnt speeds, and with the power trying to go to both, they cant, so its something getting shaken up as play..... normally the front driveline differentiating from the rear
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