On Oct 23, 9:18 pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:25:36 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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With most of the new 4x4's and the auto disconnect to the front drive
line, other than the extra weight, the fuel mileage difference is
negligible.

I just noticed something on my new truck. It has real, old fashioned
locking hubs on the front, the kind you get out and manually turn.

I never noticed them before. I have to read the owner's manual one of
these
days, because I have the
electronic switch in the cab to select 2wd, 4wd high and 4wd low.

I don't know what the manual locking hubs are all about.

Sure they are manual hubs and not wheel covers?

I was fooled by that when I was looking at a new Ford last year.

You know what? I have no idea. I just happened to glance down and looked
at them as I walked by the truck.
They have a bar that appears to be able to be turned to one of two
positions, "Locked" and "Auto".
I was thinking about something else at the moment, so nothing went off in my
head until later, sitting here at the desk.

Weird.

It's too cold and dark to investigate now. I'll check it out tomorrow if I
remember ..... ah, hell, this is going to bug me.
Be right back.

Back. Yup, they are locking hubs. The truck has the Electronic Shift On
the Fly (ESOF) option, but the hubs can also be manually locked to override
the automatic control. Why, I haven't a clue.

Eisboch

I was out driving in the woods with a friend of mine in his 4WD truck
with his wife along too looking for caves. We came to a very wide and
long area of mud and h turns to his wife "Marianne, will you get out
and lock in the hubs before we go through that". She gets out and
starts locking them and he says o me in a loud voice "You didnt know
i had automatic hubs did you". They didnt stay married long.