4HI question

[ThunderbirdJunkie]

ThunderbirdJunkie can feel massive tire scrub when in 4w on dry pavement. He had to drag a trailer out of gramps's yard a couple months ago. straight pull, 4 low (8,000 lb trailer with a tricycle Farmall on it...his duallie is a 2 wheel 460 F350 and wouldn't do anything but light up all 4 tires in the rear when trying to pull that damn trailer)

Basically
NEVER EVER EVER USE PART TIME ON DRY PAVEMENT.

No reason to do so anyway. It's not like the lever is on the passenger side like it is on a rice grinder old Toyota or Isuzu...it takes maybe a whole second to disengage 4wd.

ThunderbirdJunkie's MOM could handle it in our '93 Dakota 5 speed and Dad's F150s, and thought Dad's '96 Explorer with the automatic "AWD" 4wd system was stupid. She called the '84 XJ wagoneer with its electronically shifted (basically a toggle switch in the console) transfer case "stupid and for idiots that can't drive".

Unless you have ****** tires (which KJs came from the factory with) there is NO REASON for the NP/NV 242 transfer case to exist, nor an AWD setting on a 4x4.

You guys gonna let ThunderbirdJunkie's mom out-wheel you guys during daily Michigan driving?

None of this is meant to insult anybody - just to put a perspective on things. Granted, this is the same woman that poked fun at her son for putting an automatic transmission in his Mustang asking if it was "so girls can drive it"

(maybe now you guys understand where ThunderbirdJunkie gets it(rotflmao))

 

[Ron Burgundy]

that for all the replys and info i am picking up the jeep next week

 

[Clyde Frog]

automatic transmission in his Mustang

Ewwwwww!

 

[ThunderbirdJunkie]

You can't shift faster than a built C4

 

[theholybull]

I think i would have kept the T5.

You can't shift faster than a built C4

What ever you need to tell yourself to sleep at night sally.

 

[ThunderbirdJunkie]

Kept the T5?

The T5 in a '77 Mustang Cobra II that originally had a 2.8 liter V6 and a C3?

If you can row a T5 faster than a built C4 can shift, you, sir, are a better man than

well...everybody

 

[kj924]

Personally, I like the way my Borg T5 shifts....eek2dance.gif

 

[theholybull]

Id rather light my man parts on fire than drive a mustang 2. And why are you worrying about the speed you can shift when you are running a 2.8? Did you keep stepping on your skirt when you hit the clutch, or did you keep having your tampax slip out? Finally my buddy replaced his t5 with a c4 with a reverse manual valve body and hated it, then again he is a man......

 

[ThunderbirdJunkie]

It had a built 306 and weighed 2400 pounds

It came from the FACTORY with a 2.8. It went into ThunderbirdJunkie's garage with no engine or trans and rolled out with a lumpy cammed, big carbed SBF and a C4 and 4.11 gears.

The Mustang II is the lightest Mustang ever built. If you don't like it, go get back in your Escort-lookin Faux body Fairmont thing, or buy a REAL Fox body (83-88 T-bird, 84-92 Mk7, or Cougar )

 

[jnaut]

I know this topic has been beat to death but i can get a pretty good deal on a 2004 LTD with 52,000 miles. it does not have select trac it just has command trac. can you use 4HI for driving on straight roads that have snowy patches or that are mostly snow covered at speeds no more then 30 to 40 miles per hour? if not when is the only time you can use it.? thanks

My experience:

I use mine on snow covered straight roads in 4HI for many, many miles, never had an issue. I will pop it in and out though-- especially when I see the snow thinning. If the conditions look like I won't suffer any slippage, I'll pop it out of 4hi. Once I feel any wheel slippage, I'll put it back to 4hi-- and so on.

Example: I'm pretty sure I was in 4hi here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13wpVinFs-0