homerman5409
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Can you replace auto locking hubs with manual ones?
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Locking Hubs?
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Thunder
3/4 ton status
Yes. And the replacement of the POS auto hubs is highly recomended.
Chrisblazzer89
1/2 ton status
cwbytruckr
Registered Member
thats the first thing i tell the guys i work with who get 4wd's to do...from experience, a spring goin out and gettin stuck because of it aint fun....LOL
bodacious
1/2 ton status
Yes. Easy project. 1st priority.
skark_burmer
1/2 ton status
Im rebuilding my front axle now and had wanted to keep the stock auto hubs for ease of use. I dont wheel hard and 90% of the miles are on road so i liked having the auto hubs.
Well 4wd never worked, i figured it was a transfer case issue.
To make a long story short i tore it down and the auto hubs were trashed. So much of the small caged breaing in the cap was ground up, metal shavings had completely saturated the grease and wheel bearings.
A lot of the parts were chewed up, springs broken, keepers bent or cracked, the plastic cam piece was rashed. I calculated up the dollar value to repair the auto hubs and it exceeded the cost of the Warn premium hubs so i decided to not repair them. I got a set of the Warn premium hubs off e-bay for $85, shipping included. The more i read about the hubs, the more convinced i am that the manual hubs are the way to go.
Well 4wd never worked, i figured it was a transfer case issue.
To make a long story short i tore it down and the auto hubs were trashed. So much of the small caged breaing in the cap was ground up, metal shavings had completely saturated the grease and wheel bearings.
A lot of the parts were chewed up, springs broken, keepers bent or cracked, the plastic cam piece was rashed. I calculated up the dollar value to repair the auto hubs and it exceeded the cost of the Warn premium hubs so i decided to not repair them. I got a set of the Warn premium hubs off e-bay for $85, shipping included. The more i read about the hubs, the more convinced i am that the manual hubs are the way to go.
Leper
1/2 ton status
Good deal.
