Rustbucket1994
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- 1994 XLT
Hello Gentleman
I need some suggestions on what’s happening with my auto hubs. I Have read all of the previous threads on auto hubs and followed the instructions for repairs and maintenance. I will give you all the full run down of what’s happening so please read to the end, that’s where my actual question will be.
Before I tell you what one of them is doing I will tell you what maintenance I have done. I just got the explorer so much maintenance was needed but work done in regards to the manual hubs: I took the hubs off, took out the snap ring and cleaned all grease out with brake cleaner, put in the washer to help with the 4x4 engaging, reassembled, and filled with tranny fluid and let soak.
One thing worth noting, I found that two out of the five little plastic teeth on the plastic washer-type piece in the hub that everyone hates, were broken off. They weren’t right next to each other, the ones that were busted off where at the 10 and 2 o’clock position, the ones that were still there were at the 12, 7, and 5 o’clock positions, this being if you were looking directly into the hub. Since it had three good contact points decided I would still use it. I put the washer in for the 4x4 engaging trick to make up for the wear and put it back together.
Meanwhile, while the hub is soaking, I replace the rotors, and pads. I fully cleaned all the parts and re-packed the bearings, put the caliper grease on the slides, put the put the sticky disc pad stuff on the backing plates, the works. I reassembled, everything was done right. Oh, also I made damn sure the spindle did not have a lot of grease on it, and the hub just had whatever tranny fluid was left after draining.
At this point the brakes now work great, the rotor shimmy is gone, even at high speeds and under extreme braking. Originally the 4x4 was not engaging but I found that the culprit was the shifter motor, the 4x4 is now working properly, and all indicator lights on the dash are going on and off as they should. Again, I put the washers in the hub when I did all this just for good measure to try to prevent any issues down the road as I have read much about them.
Before and after I did all of this, I propped one front wheel up at a time and followed the instructions to diagnose whether or not your hubs are working properly. Before the work, the hubs failed, after they both passed and worked as the instructions said they should. These hubs were jammed packed full of black grease straight from 1994 when I took them off so I think that was the issue, could have been the broken plastic pieces getting jammed in there too.
THE PROBLEM: The problem I have is that when I drive the vehicle forward at slow speed, like a slow jogging speed (a bit faster than a walk), I hear the driver’s side hub make a large clank and then the truck slows down, almost to a stop. Similarly I can put the truck in drive for a few seconds, then shift to neutral to let it coast and then a second after shifting to neutral I hear the clank again and the truck slowly stops. Even if Im on a slight hill and in neutral, it won’t roll freely as I think it should. However if I’m on the same hill, I put it in reverse and back up the hill 10 feet or so, and then put it in neutral, well then it rolls forward down the hill with no resistance.
It feels like the hub is engaging itself and therefore turning the driver’s side axle, I would not think its in 4x4 at this point cause the shift motor doesn’t have the 4x4 engaged. I don’t know if this is normal or not. If it is normal I don’t see why it is only happening to the driver’s side. Maybe the hub is bad?
If you’re wondering if this is the same hub that t I mentioned before to have the two broken plastic pieces, Im really not sure, I cant remember.
Also I had this problem before and after any of the maintenance was done.
So if anyone has any experience with this happening to them, knows whats going on, or knows how to fix it please help. I have read all the other threads on these hubs so please to refer me to them, if I haven’t figured it out by now I don’t think I will figure it out by reading them all again.
Thanks for your help in advance.
I need some suggestions on what’s happening with my auto hubs. I Have read all of the previous threads on auto hubs and followed the instructions for repairs and maintenance. I will give you all the full run down of what’s happening so please read to the end, that’s where my actual question will be.
Before I tell you what one of them is doing I will tell you what maintenance I have done. I just got the explorer so much maintenance was needed but work done in regards to the manual hubs: I took the hubs off, took out the snap ring and cleaned all grease out with brake cleaner, put in the washer to help with the 4x4 engaging, reassembled, and filled with tranny fluid and let soak.
One thing worth noting, I found that two out of the five little plastic teeth on the plastic washer-type piece in the hub that everyone hates, were broken off. They weren’t right next to each other, the ones that were busted off where at the 10 and 2 o’clock position, the ones that were still there were at the 12, 7, and 5 o’clock positions, this being if you were looking directly into the hub. Since it had three good contact points decided I would still use it. I put the washer in for the 4x4 engaging trick to make up for the wear and put it back together.
Meanwhile, while the hub is soaking, I replace the rotors, and pads. I fully cleaned all the parts and re-packed the bearings, put the caliper grease on the slides, put the put the sticky disc pad stuff on the backing plates, the works. I reassembled, everything was done right. Oh, also I made damn sure the spindle did not have a lot of grease on it, and the hub just had whatever tranny fluid was left after draining.
At this point the brakes now work great, the rotor shimmy is gone, even at high speeds and under extreme braking. Originally the 4x4 was not engaging but I found that the culprit was the shifter motor, the 4x4 is now working properly, and all indicator lights on the dash are going on and off as they should. Again, I put the washers in the hub when I did all this just for good measure to try to prevent any issues down the road as I have read much about them.
Before and after I did all of this, I propped one front wheel up at a time and followed the instructions to diagnose whether or not your hubs are working properly. Before the work, the hubs failed, after they both passed and worked as the instructions said they should. These hubs were jammed packed full of black grease straight from 1994 when I took them off so I think that was the issue, could have been the broken plastic pieces getting jammed in there too.
THE PROBLEM: The problem I have is that when I drive the vehicle forward at slow speed, like a slow jogging speed (a bit faster than a walk), I hear the driver’s side hub make a large clank and then the truck slows down, almost to a stop. Similarly I can put the truck in drive for a few seconds, then shift to neutral to let it coast and then a second after shifting to neutral I hear the clank again and the truck slowly stops. Even if Im on a slight hill and in neutral, it won’t roll freely as I think it should. However if I’m on the same hill, I put it in reverse and back up the hill 10 feet or so, and then put it in neutral, well then it rolls forward down the hill with no resistance.
It feels like the hub is engaging itself and therefore turning the driver’s side axle, I would not think its in 4x4 at this point cause the shift motor doesn’t have the 4x4 engaged. I don’t know if this is normal or not. If it is normal I don’t see why it is only happening to the driver’s side. Maybe the hub is bad?
If you’re wondering if this is the same hub that t I mentioned before to have the two broken plastic pieces, Im really not sure, I cant remember.
Also I had this problem before and after any of the maintenance was done.
So if anyone has any experience with this happening to them, knows whats going on, or knows how to fix it please help. I have read all the other threads on these hubs so please to refer me to them, if I haven’t figured it out by now I don’t think I will figure it out by reading them all again.
Thanks for your help in advance.
