RocketMouse

I miss having snow to play in with my XJ... and I agree with you... these XJs are just little stompers... go pretty much anywhere...

aroundincircles

For me... I would rather drive my XJ, as it has an NP242, and I can put it in full time 4wd, and there is naturally more weight on the rear, my truck being a ford ranger, has 0 weight on the back, and I had to swap out the auto hubs to manually locking hubs, and it's either 2wd or 4wd lock, no awd. so going into 4wd means making sure the hubs are locked and the bed has weight in it. XJ is more forgiving. I live in Phoenix though, so if I got snow, it would be 1) a surprise, and 2) related to an apocalyptic event.

Thetastycat

OK, I'm really glad you brought that up - I'm about to swap out to a HP44 front with manual hubs, and I've never used manual hubs before; it's been nice in all this snow to just shift into 4hi whenever I wanted to - how does all of that change with manual hubs? I guess my question is during a drive in a winter storm do you have to get out and lock the hubs every time you want 4wd? I will have an ARB locker, so could I just leave them locked for the drive and go into/out of 4wd as I want to?

Thanks for the wisdom!

Very Red XJ

Years ago, we'd drive a CJ to the trail-head, get out and "twist" the front hubs and go wheeling with all the axles engaged. When we left, we'd unlock the front and drive home in RWD. Note, the transfer case had to be engaged or disengaged as well. We did this so the antiqued drive-train wouldn't place an additional drag on the little 4-banger. When more modern tech became available, manufactures deleted this "feature"

00t444e

You can drive in 2wd with the hubs locked and shift in and out of 4x4 as needed just like you can now. I do that all the time in my F250.

Thetastycat

Just what I was hoping - thanks a lot!!

RocketMouse

When I lived in AZ.... I saw snow.... lots of it every winter... of course that was at 7,000 ft in Flagstaff.. lol... when I lived in southern AZ... I remember seeing frost on all the cactus in the desert in the winter-time.

doublechaz

We get two or three solid blizzards each winter at 5000 ft in AZ. They are great because in a few days it's all gone again.