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The second part of your legal game is what called a SLAP lawsuit. You sue everyone on the HOA's board for $1M for defamation of character, harassment, interfering with your peaceful enjoyment of your property, and every other reason your lawyer can think of. The board generally will fold...

It's not a Ford thing, it's a universal joint thing. It happens on all 4WD vehicles that have universal joints in the front end. Which is exactly why I said it is a universal joint issue. I said my peace about the spider gears a couple of posts back. If you have lockout hubs on both wheels...

No! Not in this case, the truck has its hubs locked, but its transfer case is open (2WD). The lurching is caused by the universal joints on the front axles turning at a tight radius. Think about what would happen if a universal joint was set up so that the two shafts were at 90 degrees to...

Are we sure that the design, fit, finish, and metallurgy in our 45 year old deuce spider sets are the same as is in a 25 year old Chevy that was made for automatic hubs? I remember a time when car engines lasted about 100K miles before they were burning oil, had sloppy rod and main bearings...

I'm perfectly willing to accept that the friction from the spider gears will be small enough to not really matter as far as pulling on the steering goes. I don't believe that over the long term this isn't a reliability problem, though. It will also cause drive-ability problems. I know that...

Your truck is one issue, but better luck is often found by doing a thorough check of the HOA's charter, articles of incorporation, taxes, voting rules, etc.. Many HOA's accidentally let their corporation dues lapse, and operate without legal authority. Most HOA's can't get a majority vote on...

Your post came out while I was typing my last post. You are right, but what you aren't considering is the spider gears on our big Rockwell differentials are not designed to spin much, or very often. They only spin when the right and left wheels are turning at different speeds, and usually...

On further reflection, the friction loss due to only unlocking one hub wouldn't be as much as the 28% my F250 suffers when both hubs are locked in 2WD, because the ring and pinion gears are not moving in that condition, only the spider gears. ...BUT,... What about those spider gears? In...

And you don't think that will increase fuel consumption over a two hub lockout? -Chuck

Are we still talking about using only one hub lockout on a front axle, or has this morphed into something else? Which simply disconnects the front drive shaft from the front differential, right? I can't help thinking you are talking about something other than using a lockout on only one hub on...

If I can "conjure up" a situation on the first time I ever drove a 4WD truck with its hubs locked in snow, it is clearly a problem that should be watched. What I took away from that crash, I mean lesson, was if the truck's hubs are locked, and it is all slippery out, the truck must stay in 4WD...

Don't bypass your FDC, test it. All you have to do is unscrew the 4 screws that hold it in place, and lift it up out of the injection pump. Turn on your electricity so that the in tank fuel pump starts to pump, and watch the FDC piston rod. If it starts to drip, you need to bypass your FDC...

To give you another example of the problem, a long time ago, when I first bought a 4WD F250 truck, I took it out to play in some fresh snow. It was very cold, and the snow was about 4 inches of powder. I found the truck had so much traction in 4WD that I decided shift it into 2WD and drive...

There should be enough steel in your wheels to trigger the sensor, try approaching the sensor a little out of your lane. -Chuck

Hi Gary, There are all sorts of mud. Liquid mud, as I imagined it, is mud that is more like room temperature Hershey's chocolate syrup... mud that you could pour from a pitcher. Mud that is like chocolate milk is clearly liquid in behavior. Mud that is like catsup, which is thixotropic, can...

Archimedes said that the upward buoyant force exerted on a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid the body displaces. That means that if you submerged a tire in a liquid mud, there will be a buoyant force on the tire that is equal to the weight of a tire made out of the...

Take the physics one step further: If you put a pressure gauge on a tire while it is jacked up in the air, and it reads 50psi, when it is sitting on the ground with maximum load applied, it will read ..... 50psi. Why is that? Because the tire deforms, increasing its "footprint" until the...

I'm not at all fussy about what I use in the differentials. They are open differentials, so there is no need for funny stuff like with limit-slip. I am perfectly happy with the stuff that is blended up for tractor supply, and I would imagine the walmart, or pepboys oils would be fine too...

What I do, and you can take it with a grain of salt, is run Rotella 15W40 in the engine, GL5 in the differentials, and Traveler (tractor supply) brand SAE40 detergent oil in the transmission and transfer case. I use silicone brake fluid, and the latest revision of GAA grease for the chassis...

I'm sure the oil you bought will work ok. The whole point of this thread is the manufacturer of the transmissions and transfer cases still says not to use Extreme Pressure (EP) gear oils in their boxes. They recommend using plain old SAE50 motor oil. Why is this? Mostly because the EP oils...