Big problem

[ARB-XJ]

This isnt on my jeep but anyway...

I have an F250 with a detroit locker in the rear....now it drives just fine in 2wheel, but when i put it in 4 wheel, one of the rear wheels will lock up and not move.....looking for ideas on what it could be, a problem with the locker? or an issue with the t-case?

 

[jcshaney]

I dont think it could be in the t case would almost have to be in the rear end or the brakes

 

[joe_peters]

Too weird--the only thing changing is the t-case, and yet there is no way it would cause a wheel to lock up only in 4wd on the only axle turning in 2wd.

 

[ECKSJAY]

Check to make sure the t-case linkage isn't installed upside down.

 

[ECKSJAY]

Got to thinking about this...I'd bet money that you have two different gear ratios in your axles and what's happening is bind between the two.

 

[mcantar18c]

Updates?

 

[joe_peters]

Got to thinking about this...I'd bet money that you have two different gear ratios in your axles and what's happening is bind between the two.

BRILLIANT! Damn good tech call, even if it turns out to be something else.

 

[POSJ]

BRILLIANT! Damn good tech call, even if it turns out to be something else.

Agreed I felt dumb for not thinking of it lol...:yelclap:

 

[ARB-XJ]

Got to thinking about this...I'd bet money that you have two different gear ratios in your axles and what's happening is bind between the two.

yep thats exactly what it was, 5.13 in the rear and 3.73 up front.... (just bought the truck) and they said i was regeared, didnt even think anyone would just do the rear...o well

 

[POSJ]

Certified mall crawler then lol, 40" tires and only one axle geared. Good to hear you figured it out...

 

[Mighty.Mighty_XJ]

See, the more I hang with the Jeep crowd the more I appreciate you guys over the build-it-big-&-shiny crowd (even tho we can't discuss politics :laugh3: ). Buying a used Jeep we would mostly assume that "it's been regeared" means both axles - and we'd be right 99.999% of the time. But those "truck guys" - damn.
Who'da thunk it?

 

[ARB-XJ]

Yes the truck is 100% mall crawler, on 40's ha....the jeep is for beating

 

[kastein]

wow that blows, you would think they'd at least pull the front driveshaft with that kind of cheapness going on.

 

[joe_peters]

wow that blows, you would think they'd at least pull the front driveshaft with that kind of cheapness going on.

Actually, kind of dirty of them not to mention it at the time of the sale--maybe they didn't know it was a 4x4, being a mall crawler!