4wd won't disengage

[Crazymays77]

Ok I have a 99 ranger. I put manual hubs on it. So when I engage the 4wd it locks in sometime I do have to back up a bit but it's when I turn the 4wd off I have problems. It still is engaged. I have to back up to unlock it. I shouldn't have to with manual hubs should I? Last night I was driving home in 4wd stopped turned the know to 2wd and it still took off in 4wd until I backed up. I did notice when I had the right front tire off and locked the hub in I had to turn the rotor back and forth then it locked in same thing to unlock it. Could that be the problem?

[J.C.]

bud had auto hubs on his, think he messed with them and they worked

[Crazymays77]

Yeah I still have the auto hubs here but idk of there any good. I like the manuals don't have to deal with vacuum. But I don't understand y they won't disengage when I unlock the tcase. Thinking its a bad hub or something but even if it the hubs are Locked in the tcase shouldnt be supplying power to the front right.

[Crazymays77]

Unless something in the tcase is bad and when I back up it releases pressure for t to unlock the rest of the way.

[Ranger Dave]

check your  wheel bearings  and  ball joints.  sometime  when there under presher they wont unlock  or  lock.


just  a  thought.

do you  have  push putton 4x4  or is it a shifter on the flour

[7387chevynut]

ELECTRIC shift T-case??......for a 99 I am guessing it is.  There are too many problems associated with those (FORD, GM, and Dodge).

if the case is still engauged (with the hubs unlocked)...........then its something internally in the case thats not unlocking

[burl]

With fords you always have to backup to disengauge the hubs, atleast all off the fords I know of bronco 2s and rangers some fullsizes too

[Crazymays77]

It's a knob on the dash so elec tcase. New lockouts new wheel bearings. I can deal with it just wanted to see if anyone had an idea what it could be. By the manual I shouldn't have to back up to unlock it.

[rangerwheelinmike]

With fords you always have to backup to disengauge the hubs, atleast all off the fords I know of bronco 2s and rangers some fullsizes too

x2 my ranger was the same way so is my f150

[bud]

i never had to back up to unlock my 99

[J.C.]

i never had to back up to unlock my 99

I was talking bout how you took the auto hubs so you could manually push them in and out.

[bud]

i never had to back up to unlock my 99

I was talking bout how you took the auto hubs so you could manually push them in and out.

yea it worked great and those years of  rangers were all ment to "shift on the fly" so you should never have to back up to unlock the hubs

[rangerwheelinmike]

the tcases dont unlock as soon as you turn it to 2wd it has to get the presure off it

[Crazymays77]

well i can go for miles and it wont come out i have to back up. hell i can gun it and it wont pop out unless i back up.

[bud]

the tcases dont unlock as soon as you turn it to 2wd it has to get the presure off it

mine always did never had to back up to unlock

[OHEARN.2012]

a friend of mine had a newer blazer like this but he had to put it in reverse and go like 25 mphs while hitting the 2wd button lmao

[Ranger Dave]

i had  rangers,  broncos, broncos II,  f150  and  never  had to  back up to change out of  4 hi. 

[OHEARN.2012]

idk i heard somewheres that with auto lockers you have to back up a few feet to get the HUBS to unlock but ive never heard of doing it to get the tcase to unlock

[ProGrade]

I had to back up to unlock my 88 ranger, manual hubs, manual shift on the fly and manual trans

[7387chevynut]

Ford and GM AUTOMATIC locking hubs offer from 1982-1996.......required you to back up to disenguage them......because they were mechanical, and operated only when the T-case was shifted into 4wd, allowing the front driveshaft to turn and engauge them.

Manual hubs do not work that way, once unlocked, the main spring takes pressure off the gears allowing them to retract..............there is no need to back up once you unlock them.

Most Vacum operated  (non locking hub) 4wd trucks are the same way once you shift out of 4wd, you dont have to back up to disenauge it.