fishinpolejoe
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Virginia - southwest tip
96 4.0 XJ 4wd Sport 300K miles Part Time 4WD system
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We got our first serious snow of the season today. I drive twenty miles one way to work and I got plenty of use out of the 4WD today.
The roads were covered this morning so I used 4-high the entire drive. When I went home only a few parts of the road were slick enough to use 4WD and since it is a Part Time system I wound up engaging and disengaging the 4WD three times on the trip home.
The first time I shifted from 4WD to 2WD I felt a "bump" and heard a "thump" after about a quarter mile of driving in 2WD. I thought I had hit a little pot hole. I was driving around 40mph. It happened to me two more times under the same circumstances and I realized I wasn't hitting pot holes.
I pulled into my driveway and used 4-high one more time and everything seemed to work properly. I don't feel anything or hear anything unusual when I engage the 4WD. When I got to my parking spot I put it back in 2WD and backed up about twenty feet then pulled forward again to see if I would feel or hear it disengage with the same "thump/bump" but I didn't.
Is it taking my 4WD a quarter mile to disengage and why does it feel like I hit a pot hole? I know this can't be normal. Has anyone else experienced this and should I be concerned?
I didn't have any luck searching for a similar topic.
We got our first serious snow of the season today. I drive twenty miles one way to work and I got plenty of use out of the 4WD today.
The roads were covered this morning so I used 4-high the entire drive. When I went home only a few parts of the road were slick enough to use 4WD and since it is a Part Time system I wound up engaging and disengaging the 4WD three times on the trip home.
The first time I shifted from 4WD to 2WD I felt a "bump" and heard a "thump" after about a quarter mile of driving in 2WD. I thought I had hit a little pot hole. I was driving around 40mph. It happened to me two more times under the same circumstances and I realized I wasn't hitting pot holes.
I pulled into my driveway and used 4-high one more time and everything seemed to work properly. I don't feel anything or hear anything unusual when I engage the 4WD. When I got to my parking spot I put it back in 2WD and backed up about twenty feet then pulled forward again to see if I would feel or hear it disengage with the same "thump/bump" but I didn't.
Is it taking my 4WD a quarter mile to disengage and why does it feel like I hit a pot hole? I know this can't be normal. Has anyone else experienced this and should I be concerned?