F-150 4X4 Problems

KAMP9992001

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1915 FORD F-150

I have a 2000 F150 4x4 with a 5.4L V8. It has 236,000 miles and is in decent shape. I have recently had some trouble with the four wheel drive not engaging, I have changed the shift motor on the transfer case and that did not cure it. The transfer case is shifting now but it seems that the hubs are not. I did find the vacume axle lock and it seems to move fine into 2 wheel drive but when you try to engage 4 wheel drive it doesn't seem to move far enough to engage the hubs. I guess my question is can the vacume motor be repaired or should I just buy a new one or could it be the hubs are bad?

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 AT 1:49 PM

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VW200486

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Dude the first thing I do when I buy a 4x4 is get rid of those junk automatic hubs. And if you were to buy new automatic one there twice the money as lockouts. But puting lokckout hubs on it I think should cure it

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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 AT 2:01 PM

CHEVY22

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Hey camp you cannot repair them, if you found that was your problem, go ahead and replace it, anything else let us know

jim

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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 AT 3:14 PM

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I'd keep the system the same as well. I don't know if our systems are the same exactly, but I have has a bit of a rust build up on the tubes going to the hubs, right at the wheels. I had to pull them off, clean them and reseat them to stop the vacuum loss.

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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 AT 5:15 PM