On Oct 23, 7:24*am, wrote:
On Oct 22, 8:54*pm, "Mike" wrote:





I've had 4wd vehicles for the last 20 years. Not once have I had to have the
transfer cases serviced. So no, they don't cost any more for repairs. 4wd
sure makes pulling a heavy boat up a slippery ramp, a piece of cake.

--Mike

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Question for me now is whether or not to get 4wd on my new(er) truck.
My old Nissan is 4wd and my old Dodge is not. *I have never needed 4wd
here in FL and when I lived in AL I used it only a few times, a couple
times when it snowed and several times for caving. *When we go to WY,
we may use it both winter and summer although that is a very small
fraction of our time. *We also could do without it in WY even in
winter by being careful. *My experience with 4wd is that it makes
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Besides, if you like manual trannys low range is nice on a steep ramp
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Agreed! But one should always make sure the parking brake is in good
shape and working throttle releasing parking brake and operating the
clutch can take a bit of getting used to. I've sen people at our local
ramp get their PU stuck onthe ramp. all because they let the parking
brake go to heck and it wouldn't release . And this always seems to
happen on the morning of a three day weekend with anxious people
lined up to launch.