Dakotas, genII on anyway, don't use locking hubs, the front shaft
spins with wheels and is only disconnected at the transfer case. This
means you can go from 4 wheel to 2 with out doing anything special.
I am intimately familiar with the working of the np237 transfer
case, mine exploded one day and had to rebuild a jeep one with some of
my parts to get my truck running again. (btw... NEVER RUN YOUR TRUCK AT
HIGHWAY SPEEDS WITH OUT ANY OIL IN YOU TRANSFER CASE!!!) I think i
cracked it while 4 wheeling/camping and it shattered after an hour or 2
at highway speeds, almost got me home. :D
Dave McGuire
'93 4x4 cc 3.9L, 5-speed
On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 04:24 PM, Brian Gonzales wrote:
>
> I haven't had a 4x4 that's *required* driving backwards to disengage the
> hubs, but I still do it. Lol, been doing it for 10 years now.
>
> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 16:02, Matt Tharp wrote:
>> Well I still love my new Dakota. I do have a quick
>> question. Last night it was pouring when I went home,
>> I was hitting some pretty deep rain. So put it into
>> 4wd (why not use it) so I would hopefully not slide
>> all over the road. It worked and I got home just fine.
>> But the question came to the hubs. I know that on my
>> old pathfinder I had to back up about 15 feet to
>> unlock the hubs after I took it out of 4wd. I was
>> wondering if I have to do the same with the dakota. I
>> looked though the owners book and they did not say
>> anything about the hubs. I tried to find out on the
>> stickers on the side of the truck but still nothing.
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