4high vs 4low
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For blasting through mud and puddles you need wheel speed. I would go with at least 4HI-1st gear. Another thing I didn't mention is that when driving in deep snow 4Hi tends to work a little better. Common sense tells you 4LO but, you create too much torque too fast and your Jeep wants to dig to China. bad news. Maybe this only works in wet slushy Washington snow but, it does work for me!! Thanks Brandon. This old dog learned a very cool new trick.
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Clayton, I know what is wrong with your 4LO not working. If you climb under your Jeep and look at your TC shift linkage. Midway between where it goes through the floor and where it hooks to the shift lever on the TC, there is what looks like a pivot linkage with a pin that should be in a hole in the side of your Auto tranny and then goes across to a mount near the framerail. For some reason unknown to me, if this pin comes out of the tranny, you lose all forward gears when the TC is shifted in 4WD. With the TC in 2WD all forward gears still work fine. We found this out the hard way on my son's XJ the last time we went 4wheeling. I gotta give his Jeep props. He made it most of the way through that last trail in 2HI.
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I'll take a pic of mine toinight after work and then post it so you can see what I'm talking about.
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Ya I only use 4-low on long steep climbs. Thats it. As far as on the rocks go its to jumpy for me and gearing kind of overpowers the converter making braking more difficult. THats just my oppinion
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ok thanks. i googled it and i think i found the tc shift linkage but cant find any pin not plugged in this is the pic i found http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s...J/GEDC2064.jpg
and mine looks pretty much like that. idk what pin your talking about
and mine looks pretty much like that. idk what pin your talking about
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