4wd Rangers are worthless!
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Originally Posted by Camo
A little curious as to how it would do in the snow, I tried it out on a snow covered smoothly paved hill with about 8 inches of untracked snow. I locked in 4 high and started up the hill to make it about 25 feet before I got excessive wheel hop in the front end that cause me to have to shut it down before anything was damaged! The same result again and again, even going as slow as I could in 4 low. Could not go up the hill, UNTIL, I put it in 2wd and hammered the gas shifted into 2nd gear, and flew right up over....Backed down and tried the same in 4 high.....Wheel hop and shut down early again. I guess I liked my past Rangers because most of them were 2 wheel drives......I don't mind if it spins to a stop in 4wd, but to have so much wheel hop that you have to shut down? Why have 4wd at all?
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My 2005 has intermittent front wheel hop also. It happens from a dead stop in 1st gear and low range. Something binds, but I don't know what it is, but it's pretty violent. Seems like it was the right front.
It happened to me climbing the the big dune at Ocotillo (deep sand), and other occasions.
It happened to me climbing the the big dune at Ocotillo (deep sand), and other occasions.
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seen this before...
I'm no expert in Ford Rangers by any means. I remember years ago when I was younger an older friend having a problem similar to this but not identical in his f-250. If I remember right it was a problem with the locking hubs. Could the eletrical mechanism that locks the hubs being causing an intermitent engagement problem. I once encountered a problem on a much larger truck where the air line that locked the power divider on the axle was getting pinched every time the truck bounced. Every time you hit some bumps with it locked on it would do some crazy bouncing stuff in the sand. Just an idea....could there be any merit to it?
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Well from an engineers perspective.. any vibration or oscillation **starts** at a frequency. To avoid this in the future just change the frequency and the hop won't start to begin with. Lower or raise tire pressures, stiffen the suspension, change angle of attack, add dampening effects like shocks and/or stiffer end links, ect... Generally the stiffer the whole suspension/tire the higher the frequency required to set it off.
If this was a habitual problem I'd first suggest changing tire pressure. Next stiffer springs.
Rich
Well from an engineers perspective.. any vibration or oscillation **starts** at a frequency. To avoid this in the future just change the frequency and the hop won't start to begin with. Lower or raise tire pressures, stiffen the suspension, change angle of attack, add dampening effects like shocks and/or stiffer end links, ect... Generally the stiffer the whole suspension/tire the higher the frequency required to set it off.
If this was a habitual problem I'd first suggest changing tire pressure. Next stiffer springs.
Rich
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