Re: How to use 4x4

From: Jon (jonram2004@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2005 - 23:17:57 EST


That's the transfer case pattern on a '99 Dak, Andy?

That's interesting, because my '99 Ram (build date: 3/99) has the pattern
Bill mentioned,

4lo
|
N
|
2hi
|
4hi

Don't the Rams and Daks use the same transfer cases?

"andy levy" <andy-dml@levyclan.us> wrote in message
news:cu9dv9$1p0$3@bent.twistedbits.net...
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> On 2/7/2005 21:27, Bill Pitz wrote:
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> | Jason Bleazard wrote:
> |
> |> I can almost see doing something like that with a lever operated
> transfer
> |> case if you weren't familiar with them. But the way they have things
> set
> |> up now, you almost have to be trying in order to mess it up.
> |
> |
> | Maybe, almost. I don't know about other model years, but on my 2000,
> | the lever operated transfer case is set up like this:
> |
> | 4-lo
> | |
> | neutral
> | |
> | 2wd
> | |
> | 4-hi
> |
> | So if it were already in 4-hi, you would have to first push into 2wd (no
> | big deal), then neutral and *then* into 4-lo, which actually requires a
> | little bit of tought. I guess if you were still in park, it wouldn't be
> | that difficult to get it into 4-lo.... but you would really have to be
> | an idiot. I suppose we have already established that this fine piece of
> | work was one, though. :-)
>
> And even harder in a '99 or older. On those, it's
>
> ~ 2wd
> ~ |
> ~ 4-hi
> ~ |
> ~ ----
> ~ |
> ~ N
> ~ 4-lo |
> ~ |----
>
>
> And you have to be smoooooth going through the gates from 4-hi to 4-lo,
> else you get stuck in N-land and have to start all over.
> - --
> - -andy
>
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