Rear Tires will not spin?!?
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Rear Tires will not spin?!?
Well my buddy got stuck today and I went to go pull him out. I have a 98 Discovery that has never given me any problems. I went to pull him out and come to find out it was a 99 F350 diesel. Awesome. Got it most of the way out and I wound up in some deep snow. I went to back up and was stuck. What the hell. Looked at the truck while I was trying to back up and only my front tires were spinning and the rear tires were doing nothing. I shifted to 4 hi then 4 low twice then the rear tires started spinning again, What the heck? I backed right out and finished pulling that lead weight out of the snow and drove back to the shop. Jacked the truck up and put it in drive. Front and rear tires are spinning. What could be causing me to have this problem as I do not want to get stranded in single digit weather.
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I have high and low. I had it locked in low. PUlled the beast out then I got stuck backing up!! Crazy how only my front tires would spin and both of my back tires wouldn't do anything. Shufted to high and nothing. Shifted to low and the same thing. Shifted to high then low and then all tires started spinning!! Weird.
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Join Date: Sep 2010
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Did you have the CDL engaged? Shifting from High4wd to Low4wd does not lock the transfer case. You have to move the lever to the left to engage the center diff lock(CDL), otherwise you are just a glorified one-wheel-drive vehicle. The CDL locks the center diff making it a true 2wd, one front tire and one back tire. To get more than one tire per axle, you have to install lockers on the axle differentials. A true 4wd vehicle has a locker on each axle and a locker at the t-case.(a locker can be a full locker or auto-locker or lsd)
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