HELP - no low range 4WD

brianr70 · Post by **brianr70** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:13 pm

finally had a chance today to get off road for a play

But low and behold I could not engage LOW 4WD :oops:

have 93 surf with auto trannie

can engage High 4WD with the switch thingee, but when you push lever forward to engage LOW range it is feels stiff and will not 'go thru' at all :cry:

can anyone suggest what the problem is?????

Thanks

rangimotors · Post by **rangimotors** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:05 pm

did you have the auto in neutral?

brianr70 · Post by **brianr70** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:47 pm

yes... been caught before forgetting about neutral and trying to change :oops:

wjw · Post by **wjw** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:31 pm

Could just be stiff, if it hasn't been used for a looong time they get that way...

niblik · Post by **niblik** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:33 pm

wjw wrote:Could just be stiff, if it hasn't been used for a looong time they get that way...

bet thats what you say to all the ladies bill.. :wink:

4wdnuts · Post by **4wdnuts** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 7:03 pm

do you have to push down on the lever at the same time?

Goose · Post by **Goose** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:13 pm

wjw wrote:Could just be stiff, if it hasn't been used for a looong time they get that way...

My 1st surf (88 manual tho...) did the same thing when we got it, I ended up being a little "brutal" with it :twisted:

(no hammers or nothin!! Just really REALLY pushed it) and it was good as gold after that..... ( same thing, 2wd, sweet, hi4wd, sweet.... just real stiff to low....)not that I'm suggesting you do that.... (cover my ass, cover my ass.........)
Was told that "if they dont get used, they do that" by the caryard that sold it to us.......

soooooo...... ummmmm....... how brave are you? :wink:

seriously tho, being an auto, push button 4wd, later model..... :shock:

I'm working on the assumption :roll:

that the hi to lo lever still functions exactly the same, changing the gear manually.

ehhhhh, I dunno....... have a think about it.... and let us know what you decide :thumleft:

rangimotors · Post by **rangimotors** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:20 pm

yea mine was the same when i got it, was pretty stiff/ crunchy first time (i assume it had probably never been used) but now its sweet, i guess you have two chances and two choices

UBZ · Post by **UBZ** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:10 am

mine was stiff to start with, works sweet know

I assume you are stopped when you are trying to engage low range

brianr70 · Post by **brianr70** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:27 pm

got to the bottom [so to speak] of the problem, turned out when I did the body/suspension lift some of the bend undercarriage ended up affecting the LOW 4WD thingee, so with a big hammer [just kidding] managed to sort things out