? About auto hubs

[MotorCityMike]

I know the thing to do is replace them with manual ones but my fiance drives the truck mainly and I don't see her getting out in deep snow or getting her hands dirty in the winter so I decided to try and clean my stock ones.

I took the hubs apart and everything looked to be in good shape, just greasy and sort of gummed up in places. So i cleaned everything good with brake cleaner and replaced everything. Now the truck doesn't pull to one side any more like it did before when it was engaged and you could feel the fronts engage nice now. But I took it on a trail over the weekend and going up hill in mud the truck just spun the rear tires and the fronts did nothing. I crawled under the truck and checked to make sure the t-case was engaging and it was... I checked by pressing the button on the dash then putting the truck in park and trying to turn it and it was definitely engaged. So what could be my problem? I am new to all of this....

Thanks

 

[jr91X]

Your hubs are shot. The same thing happened to mine. Rough trail riding will kill those things. Yes, the best(and cheaper) is to put manuals. The only places that I know of to get auto hubs is to go to Ford for an outrageous price, find them on E-bay, or find someone on this site that rebuilds them.

 

[CodePoet]

Actually it's cheaper to rebuild them yourself....goto Ford Parts Network and you can get a rebuild kit for around 25 dollars...if you have any questions you can talk to a guy named Torrie, he's really good. You could also sell your hubs to Kris he rebuilds and sells them, you could probably get a decent deal from him. Manual hubs are stronger but if you don't want them, those are about the only options i've seen.

Good Luck!
CP

 

[Albino 94LTD]

contact Chris

Kris Guilbeaux from this site rebuilds them and sells them on EBay. if you have questions on how they work contact him by PM or Email.

 

[Albino 94LTD]

rebuild kit

I bought what I thought was a hub rebuild kit from FPN. It turned out to be the big 'O' ring and the decal. That won't fix a thing, I returned it and went manual.

 

[MotorCityMike]

Re: rebuild kit

Originally posted by Albino 94LTD
I bought what I thought was a hub rebuild kit from FPN. It turned out to be the big 'O' ring and the decal. That won't fix a thing, I returned it and went manual.

Thanks for the heads up i almost went that route...

I guess I'll have to get a hold of Kris and hope hes reasonable. Thanks everyone.

 

[CodePoet]

I just got done talking to Torrie at Ford Parts Network. Here's a diagram of the auto hub....

Find the part that broke...Email them about it, you'll almost deffinitly get Torrie and ask him if you can get the part...i'm pretty sure you will be able to. I"M TERRIBLEY SORRY FOR THE SIZE OF THE DIAGRAM. I tried to resize it but you couldn't read any of the part numbers so I had to leave it like I got it.

Good Luck
CP