AWD BW4404

[lugnut1009]

Well since my explorer is just for transportation and I’m not putting any money I don’t have to into it, I made it 95% 2wd. Still have the transfer case, but no front axle or cv axles. Used some old cv axles to remove the outer spindles to put back in the wheel bearings. Hopefully the 4404 holds up like this

 

[Mbrooks420]

It’s not going to hurt the 4404. It’ll just drift in park.

 

[lugnut1009]

It’s not going to hurt the 4404. It’ll just drift in park.

I haven’t been able to make it drift in park yet, I’ve tried. But good to know it could happen some day.

 

[Mbrooks420]

It drifts less when it’s warm.

 

[CDW6212R]

The AWD in decent condition will slip when in parked on a hill, very slowly it will creep downhill. But an AWD with a completely locked viscous clutch may not slip at all. My one 98 that killed the front diff/gears, that one I don't think will creep any longer. I drove it for about a year without the front shaft, parking many times briefly on hilly driveways. But I never left it long(30-60 seconds) unattended, and I always set the parking brake on hills when I did park on a hill for a long while.

 

[joney]

I don’t know how y’all make it up North. Down here in Mississippi I hate it when the temp falls down near freezing, much less any ice or snow!

But hot and humid a lot, correct?

 

[Mbrooks420]

The AWD in decent condition will slip when in parked on a hill, very slowly it will creep downhill. But an AWD with a completely locked viscous clutch may not slip at all. My one 98 that killed the front diff/gears, that one I don't think will creep any longer. I drove it for about a year without the front shaft, parking many times briefly on hilly driveways. But I never left it long(30-60 seconds) unattended, and I always set the parking brake on hills when I did park on a hill for a long while.

That’s a good point, I didn’t consider the coupling being locked would keep it from drifting.

 

[lugnut1009]

But hot and humid a lot, correct?

Yeah it is, but I’m used to it like you’re used to the cold I guess

 

[C420sailor]

Still recommend throwing some cheap chocks in the back for hills.

Pretty flat in MS, but you don’t want the coupling to decide to let loose, roll into someone/something/a Highway, and now you’re on the hook for big money because you made a modification that deleted park…

Not trying to be a dick, just trying to keep the ambulance chasers at bay.

 

[lugnut1009]

You’re right. Thanks

 

[Mbrooks420]

Still recommend throwing some cheap chocks in the back for hills.

Pretty flat in MS, but you don’t want the coupling to decide to let loose, roll into someone/something/a Highway, and now you’re on the hook for big money because you made a modification that deleted park…

Not trying to be a dick, just trying to keep the ambulance chasers at bay.

The last thing you’d want to hear is security calling over the intercom asking who owns the green mountaineer that is blocking the entire factory’s entrance when you are trying to pitch a million dollar engineering project.

 

[lugnut1009]

Sounds like experience talking… ha

 

[Mbrooks420]

I played dumb like I didn’t know why it was rolling. It was creeping along as they were watching. Another 6-8 feet and it would have rolled into another car.

 

[CDW6212R]

My first roll(creep) away was my Mountaineer, about two months after I bought it. I had the CV go bad in the front driveshaft on Christmas Day, and it took me two days to figure it out(the boot wasn't cut or leaking). I had a local driveshaft shop build me a new one from a fabricated(machine shop on the same block) adapter to use a simple u-joint at the TC. I went to the driveshaft shop to pick up the new shaft, I had parked at the front, which has steep parking spaces. When I left about five minutes after going in, the truck was all the way back out of the parking space, with nothing close behind it. But that steep incline made it creep pretty fast. I didn't know it would do that then, which was Feb, 2004.

 

[Josh P]

My first roll(creep) away was my Mountaineer, about two months after I bought it. I had the CV go bad in the front driveshaft on Christmas Day, and it took me two days to figure out where the car went