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I just went to cross a river bed the other day and just before I started I put it in 4x4 and tried to go forward but the truck really did not want to move and made some interesting sounds, the kind you hear in scary movies... I just locked in the hubs out in the parking lot and tried to drive in a straight line and I get the same thing where it feels like something is really holding it back, and now the front tires chirp (obviously due to the pavement), so that's telling me something's binding up, causing the wheels to drag with the hubs locked up. This happens regardless of what gear I'm in on the transfer case.
It all worked before but I had a bit of a trail accident and had to replace a control arm, radius arm, steering gear box, and steering shaft... Oops. In case curious, the side that got busted up was the passenger side so the arm w/ the differential was not the side that took the hit. Prior to this, the entire front end is rebuilt minus the control and radius arms. New hubs, axle shafts, u-joints, bearings, rotors, calipers, pads, i.e. everything from the differential to the rim except the knuckle. It turns and drives a perfect straight line, except when the hubs are locked so it's just something with the differential to axle to hub assembly. I'm willing to believe one of the new parts is the problem or even the differential itself, but I'm not sure which one(s).... Any thoughts or ideas on how to identify which side(s) and part(s) is causing this?
It's the redheaded step child Bronco from those few months in 87 where they decided to use the POS hub assembly, but all that stuff is gone so it's just the D44 TTB and all the stuff that's included in the knuckle out conversion kit from JBG.
http://broncograveyard.com/bronco/i-32136_..._conversion.htm
It all worked before but I had a bit of a trail accident and had to replace a control arm, radius arm, steering gear box, and steering shaft... Oops. In case curious, the side that got busted up was the passenger side so the arm w/ the differential was not the side that took the hit. Prior to this, the entire front end is rebuilt minus the control and radius arms. New hubs, axle shafts, u-joints, bearings, rotors, calipers, pads, i.e. everything from the differential to the rim except the knuckle. It turns and drives a perfect straight line, except when the hubs are locked so it's just something with the differential to axle to hub assembly. I'm willing to believe one of the new parts is the problem or even the differential itself, but I'm not sure which one(s).... Any thoughts or ideas on how to identify which side(s) and part(s) is causing this?
It's the redheaded step child Bronco from those few months in 87 where they decided to use the POS hub assembly, but all that stuff is gone so it's just the D44 TTB and all the stuff that's included in the knuckle out conversion kit from JBG.
http://broncograveyard.com/bronco/i-32136_..._conversion.htm
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