Well that was fun.

[dickfoster]

Yea, last time I was on it, it seemed pretty dead. It's too bad, some of the best threads ever in the history of the internet was on good old TTORA.

If you were closer, I'd wheel with ya.

You know you want to do Fordyce or the Rubicon but Dusy Ershim is better IMHO. Dusy takes a while to run so you get the time to enjoy it. Great scenery, fishing etc. I try to set aside a week for it. It can be done in three days, it's 33 miles but you'll be tired and beat up at the end.

 

[Snobdds]

The Dusy and the Con are on the bucket list. My 88 is IFS though, so I will need to take my Landcruiser.

 

[dickfoster]

The Dusy and the Con are on the bucket list. My 88 is IFS though, so I will need to take my Landcruiser.

A real cruiser or one of those johnny come lately things they made for soccer moms. I sold my FJ project. After everything fell through on the project I had planned for it, it was just hanging around. One of my buddies who used to live in AZ sold his truck and moved out here and needed something to wheel so I let him buy it. It was a 66 with a 350 small block chevy. He did a DNC, installed the EFI kit and put a coat of paint on it but is keeping it on leaves and is sticking with that short and vertically challenged FJ40 wheel base. Remember Rich, azrockbum?

 

[Looking4new]

As long as I am doing under 60mph, I just grab the stick and shift into 4 wheel high and tromp on it. I do like my tru-track steer axle. The open diff in the rear may get changed to posi or maybe limited slip this summer.

 

[dickfoster]

As long as I am doing under 60mph, I just grab the stick and shift into 4 wheel high and tromp on it. I do like my tru-track steer axle. The open diff in the rear may get changed to posi or maybe limited slip this summer.

A posi is a limited slip. Why not put a full locker in it? Depends on which axle but ARB makes air lockers for a lot of em. Then you have the advantages of both an open or a fully locked axle.

 

[Looking4new]

If the ARB locker will fit in my Dana 30 pumpkin, then I may go that route. I cannot move the axle back any. There is a 94L/24.8US gallon gas tank there in the stock position.

 

[sld]

When I ordered my 2007 F250 I spec'd manual hubs and manual transfer case. It does suck to get out to engage but it has never failed.

 

[dickfoster]

If the ARB locker will fit in my Dana 30 pumpkin, then I may go that route. I cannot move the axle back any. There is a 94L/24.8US gallon gas tank there in the stock position.

I think ARB may indeed have one that fits. I think OX does too although I hate that cable thing so I electrified mine.
If you drive in snow and ice much, I suppose you do, I'd steer clear of auto lockers or you might wind up in a ditch.

 

[Snobdds]

I have a fat bottom girl 80 series. Front and rear e lockers etc.

From what I've been told, it may be a little big for the Dusy with its wide hips.

 

[oosik]

I have shift-on-the-fly 4x4 engagement on my 2005 Ford F150. Its a fantastic system when it works. However, sometime in the dead of winter the "shift & the fly" tend to freeze up. I've had to crawl under the unit and hit this system lightly with a propane torch to break it loose. And its ALWAYS at the worse time possible.

I wish they still made the old 100% mechanical 4WD engagement systems as a option. Not all of us only need 4WD when stuck in a city parking lot.

 

[ovrszd]

Are you talking about the truck across the creek that I had to go get and drag back across? That's the difference between snorkel and no snorkel. I just hooked him up and dragged him back over. Lucky for him he shut it down before he hydrolocked the engine. We yanked the plugs, pumped the water out and he was good to go although I did have to loan him a dry air filter. On the same run, I had to drag another one that rolled his two and half times, all the way back to camp in the dark. He tried to follow my line with an IFS rig running a nose bleed lift and big tires. All tall and tippy like and suitable for the mall running only. After I rolled it back off of it's noggin, we had to use a farm jack to jack the roof up enough so he could get in it to steer. His truck was done for. Next morning, we dragged it back to the road, put it on a flatbed and we never heard from him again. At least he didn't die, only a small pine tree kept him from rolling right off the edge of a cliff. I don't think there were any buttons left on his seat covers. The Sierra is rugged country when you get up high.

Yeah I still have it and drive it. It's a 95 Toyota Tacoma that I've modified a lot. When I go to town people around here try to buy it but I'm not selling.

No actually I was talking about the Jeep or Sami or whatever it is over his hood in the water.

 

[ovrszd]

When I ordered my 2007 F250 I spec'd manual hubs and manual transfer case. It does suck to get out to engage but it has never failed.

If ordering a truck, that would be my choice as well. As I said earlier, I always spin my hubs in anyway, never relying on the "auto" feature.

 

[ovrszd]

I have shift-on-the-fly 4x4 engagement on my 2005 Ford F150. Its a fantastic system when it works. However, sometime in the dead of winter the "shift & the fly" tend to freeze up. I've had to crawl under the unit and hit this system lightly with a propane torch to break it loose. And its ALWAYS at the worse time possible.

I wish they still made the old 100% mechanical 4WD engagement systems as a option. Not all of us only need 4WD when stuck in a city parking lot.

I don't know if you get a choice with a new truck??

Luke just got a new 2016 Super Duty. I don't remember him talking about that choice though. I'll ask on his thread.

 

[Snobdds]

Fords come with a hub that is both auto and manual on the F250 and F350. The transfer case motor is still electric switching. The F150 is only auto hubs and electric transfer case switching. Both GM and Dodge/Fiat/Ram is like the F150 in all weight classes...auto hubs and electric transfer case switching only.

 

[ovrszd]

Fords come with a hub that is both auto and manual on the F250 and F350. The transfer case motor is still electric switching. The F150 is only auto hubs and electric transfer case switching. Both GM and Dodge/Fiat/Ram is like the F150 in all weight classes...auto hubs and electric transfer case switching only.

Does the GM or Dodge even have front hubs?? That's something new if they do.

 

[ultrarunner]

My 96 F150 with 5spd manual and OEM automatic hubs no longer engage.

Is it something that can be taken apart and cleaned and lubed or better to replace aftermarket.

I do have OEM hubs from a 1978 F250 on the shelf and don't know if they would work on the 96?

 

[sld]

Warn and others make direct replacements that are pretty easy to swap out.

 

[KubotainNH]

Pretty common for the motor to be the issue on the Fords. Or at least the contact piece that tells it where the motor is set to at the moment, also on the motor. I like manual transfer cases just for this reason. Cool that the 4x4 trick worked for you.

 

[RobertN]

In the 60's and 70's we called those Land Crusher's "Saki Suckers"... You guys taking those furin rigs on Jeep trails. Honestly FWIW I was born in a '42 GPW, and bleed Jeep even though I have not had one in a few years...

The Dusy and the Con are on the bucket list. My 88 is IFS though, so I will need to take my Landcruiser.

 

[dickfoster]

No actually I was talking about the Jeep or Sami or whatever it is over his hood in the water.

It's a Heep. He's likely being swept downstream by the current. Fordyce creek likes to eat fools and their rigs who aren't paying attention or who seem to ignore it. You have to check stream flows before you even hit that trail. PG&E decides when they are going to release from Fordyce reservoir and when they do the creek is too high and the current too swift for most anything to cross. The trail crosses the creek in several places so if you aren't careful you can end up marooned for a few days.