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Wheel wobble...........!!!
03 Jan 2013 14:12 #57047
by facade
On my 2000 model, each press of the button cycles between A > B > odometer.
With it on A or B press and hold the button for about 5 seconds longer than you think, and it jumps back to zero.
He can check them for play, but they are always gone, they rust and wear, it is only the tightness of new bearings and the friction in the dust seal that prevents wheel wobble. New bearings are relatively cheap.
Either jack up a front wheel, or simply drive on a slippery surface like wet grass and it will come out.
What happens is when you turn the front wheels try to travel further than the back ones, and this literally "winds up" the axles (like those liquorice twists we used to eat as kids). On mud the wheels can slide a bit to release the strain, on tarmac the strain gets released when a CV joint breaks :ohmy:
In general 4wd is for when the car won't move at all or you find that the back of the car is overtaking the front all the time.
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there
Replied by facade on topic Wheel wobble...........!!!
JimnyJu wrote: I'll try and zero the trip moniter but wasn't able to do that when I initially tried.
On my 2000 model, each press of the button cycles between A > B > odometer.
With it on A or B press and hold the button for about 5 seconds longer than you think, and it jumps back to zero.
JimnyJu wrote: I'll get my son on the case with the Kingpins etc thanks for the advice.
He can check them for play, but they are always gone, they rust and wear, it is only the tightness of new bearings and the friction in the dust seal that prevents wheel wobble. New bearings are relatively cheap.
JimnyJu wrote: Is there a nack of getting out of 4wd when in it? I did drive about 20miles on tarmac when I couldn't get it out of 4wd. My Jimny is a 2004 model
Either jack up a front wheel, or simply drive on a slippery surface like wet grass and it will come out.
What happens is when you turn the front wheels try to travel further than the back ones, and this literally "winds up" the axles (like those liquorice twists we used to eat as kids). On mud the wheels can slide a bit to release the strain, on tarmac the strain gets released when a CV joint breaks :ohmy:
In general 4wd is for when the car won't move at all or you find that the back of the car is overtaking the front all the time.
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there
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