Locked hubs on highway?
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Locked hubs on highway?
Ok, I live Sylmar (san fernando valley) and due to the "storms", most of the streets here (and all over the L.A. Basin) have become mini raging rivers. Can I drive in 2wd with my hubs locked, AND not destroy my spider gears and such? With both school and work, I average roughly 'bout 160 miles aday drive time....mostly on the world's most infamous highways. They say that If you can survive driving Southern California's highway systems, you can/will survive anywhere in the world. Well, ya gotta believe that statement, I mean come on, we're the 1st state to sport our own driveby-shooting lanes......
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First,do you have any kind of spool, auto locker... in the front diff? The only thing I would worry about is your CV boots, but before and after you cross the "rivers" you will have to stop to shift into 4H, stop again and shift back to 2H...Locking the hubs is just giving stress to the CV boots, diff gears and front driveshaft. On normal road driving u should be fine, dont know about the highway though .
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Originally Posted by AW1090
I don't see any problem with it other than the cv's....wouldn't be just like having ADD?
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No auto lockers on this truck. The suspension is 95% stock (cranked up torsion bars and re-arched leaf's). Thank you gentlemen, most appreciated!!
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You should be fine. In fact, with manual locking hubs, you should be driving at least 10 miles per month with the hubs locked in order to keep the front drive components lubricated. (That came from the owner's manual for my '98 Taco, but it should apply to yours as well. As stated before, this is no different from having ADD.)
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Originally Posted by roger
You should be fine. In fact, with manual locking hubs, you should be driving at least 10 miles per month with the hubs locked in order to keep the front drive components lubricated. (That came from the owner's manual for my '98 Taco, but it should apply to yours as well. As stated before, this is no different from having ADD.)
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You should be fine. In fact, with manual locking hubs, you should be driving at least 10 miles per month with the hubs locked in order to keep the front drive components lubricated.
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I used to lock the hubs on my old Yotas in October and not unlock them until March... too lazy to get out during snow season. I never had a probelm, and the last truck with manual hubs had 184k miles on it.
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