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Please forgive my complete cluelessness about this.
I'm looking at the possibilities of buying a tow-car to pull a horse trailer. My old riding instructor has a fourtrak and swears by it.
I'm a bit confused about the 4wd 2wd thing. When you're just driving along the road - is it 2wd? is that why the mpg seems to be better than LRs?
if you hit a muddy or slippy bit does it switch itself to 4wd or do you have to intervene?
If you're in a muddy field and you want to get a trailer moving, do you have to select 4wd - and then do the Hi/Lo bit? (I use to have a LR90 and that had a Hi/Lo knob thing but I never had to use it)
Apologies again for the intense muppetry.
Lou
Sean as your Landi was a 90,
Sean as your Landi was a 90, then yes the Daihatsu is a diffrant drive chain. As with the old series Landi's a Daihatsu is rear wheel drive only when in ordinary road driving mode. As for selecting 4wd, that depends on the age of your 4x4 as to what you need to do.
If she's an older model, she'll just have manual locking free wheeling hubs (centre of front wheels, says 'lock' and 'free' on them) and a lever by the gear stick which slides from 2wd high, to 4wd high, to nutrel, to 4wd low. You can leave the free wheeling hubs locked in if you wish, without damaging the car. This will lower her performance a bit, and dragge down fuel acconamy slightly, but can be usful if you know your probably going to need 4wd at some point during your drive.
Later cars have auto free wheeling hubs, and a switch on the dash for 2wd/4wh changing. The little lever on these just does high/low changing.
Hope that helps.
Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.
thanks for the quick response
so auto-free-wheeling hubs then ... does that mean that when you press the 4wd button (presumably at a standstill) the hubs lock themselves?
would an 95 TDS independent be the old sort or the new sort?
thanks, lapping up the info here!
lou
Auto free wheeling hubs (any
Auto free wheeling hubs (any free wheeling hubs for that matter), do not engage as soon as you switch them on. They engage as the wheel starts to turn, and the necesary splines line up. So as Chalky said, it's best to go into somewhere where you think you will need 4wd with the FWH's already locked in. If there not in and your stuck don't worry though. Just apply power very gently until the front axle starts to drive.
Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.
95 TDS Indy
Lou, it's hit and miss whether you have auto or manual hubs - I guess it was down to how the original owner spec'd the truck. I've got a P Reg TDX, and that has manual hubs, but before that I had a K reg Leafsprung, and that one had auto hubs. Like the guys have already said, you can tell by just looking at the front wheels. If you can see "Locked" and "Free", then you have manual hubs, if not then they are autos.
great for towing
the 95 will be classed as new with auto locking hubs.i tow our horse trailer with a 89 fourtrak with manual locking hubs and its brill,ive left landrovers and troopers waiting for tractor after a show,only thing that i have found is its better to ingage 4wd entering the field as after 4 or 5 hours sitting with the weight of the trailer it sinks in a bit and you might have bother ingaging the 4wd from standstill through experience when has it never rained at a show..... hope this helps a little
Bill
thanks for all that - I'm lea
thanks for all that - I'm learning
do they all definitely have fwh of one sort or another?
Yes. Unless you find a ver
Yes.
Unless you find a very early modle (F20/50) which ocasionaly came without fwh's.
But basicly yes, they all have fwh's.
Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.