Groelzj
Member
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2010
- Messages
- 9
- Vehicle Year
- 2004
- Transmission
- Manual
Ok, first off, this is my girlfriend's truck. It's a 2004 Ranger with suicide doors.
Her driveway is steep and rocky so every time she goes up or down, she puts the truck in 4-low. It has started to bang and lurch forward a foot or so and then catch itself. To begin with, it only happened downhill, but now she's getting the same thing going uphill and it's happening with much more frequency going downhill. The transfer case is a BW 1354 electric and she's had it in to several mechanics who can't diagnose it. One suggested the Transfer Case, she replaced that with one from a junkyard and it solved the problem...for a month. Now it's back and quickly getting worse.
She now rides the brakes down the hill with the clutch pedal to the floor (about 1/4 mile down steep grade) instead of using engine braking.
One mechanic said it may be the passenger hub, the next guy said there were no vacuum or wires to the hubs, so it doesn't have auto-locking hubs, the truck has live spindles engaged at the transfer case, and the last guy *thinks* it could be the driver's side hub...he said it looks a bit worn, but told her she's not doing any damage to it when this happens.
Where should I start? Do you need any more information or pictures? Any ideas? I'm mechanically inclined, but not familiar with 4x4 systems.
Manual hubs are too inconvenient for the frequency she uses her 4x4 and it worked for a long time before this started happening...but I don't know what the root cause for the slip is.
Thanks in advance!
Jon
Her driveway is steep and rocky so every time she goes up or down, she puts the truck in 4-low. It has started to bang and lurch forward a foot or so and then catch itself. To begin with, it only happened downhill, but now she's getting the same thing going uphill and it's happening with much more frequency going downhill. The transfer case is a BW 1354 electric and she's had it in to several mechanics who can't diagnose it. One suggested the Transfer Case, she replaced that with one from a junkyard and it solved the problem...for a month. Now it's back and quickly getting worse.
She now rides the brakes down the hill with the clutch pedal to the floor (about 1/4 mile down steep grade) instead of using engine braking.
One mechanic said it may be the passenger hub, the next guy said there were no vacuum or wires to the hubs, so it doesn't have auto-locking hubs, the truck has live spindles engaged at the transfer case, and the last guy *thinks* it could be the driver's side hub...he said it looks a bit worn, but told her she's not doing any damage to it when this happens.
Where should I start? Do you need any more information or pictures? Any ideas? I'm mechanically inclined, but not familiar with 4x4 systems.
Manual hubs are too inconvenient for the frequency she uses her 4x4 and it worked for a long time before this started happening...but I don't know what the root cause for the slip is.
Thanks in advance!
Jon