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What brand of manual locking hubs do you use? What’s the best manual hubs to buy?

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27 Jun 2018 17:24 #193838 by Scimike

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Driving with the manual front hubs engaged spinning the front drive train should not cause any issues so long as the transfer box is in 2WD.
It is possible that your fuel economy will be less due to the energy required to spin the metal, but I doubt it will be noticeable. Series Land Rovers operate the same way, ie they continually spin the front drive train. Manual locking Hubs being sold as an option on these to save fuel, rather that a fix for a vacuum system.

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29 Jun 2018 15:40 #193858 by kirkynut

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TomDK wrote: The SJ Aisin hubs does require a bit of work. But only takes 5 minutes to do.

The unthreaded part of the bearing lock nut needs to be cut off. It's easy to do and doesn't do anything to how the nut holds the bearing on place.

This does not work. Been there, tried it and found out it does not work.

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29 Jun 2018 16:53 #193861 by TomDK

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What hubs?

Works fine on my Jimny and many others with SJ manual hubs.

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29 Jun 2018 18:40 #193869 by X8GGY

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The ‘average’ Jimny owner isn’t going to want to release the wheel bearings and then re-torque them up to be able to get the nut out to cut the lip off it though? :unsure:

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29 Jun 2018 22:06 #193875 by kirkynut

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TomDK wrote: What hubs?

Works fine on my Jimny and many others with SJ manual hubs.

Aisin SJ freewheeling hubs that I kept from my old SJ. Many others have found the same, which is why the spacers came about. It was partly my findings years ago, back not long after this forum started that spurred the production of the spacers.

The production of hubs that need no spacers now has likely reduced the need for them. My wheel bearing nuts are cut down as much as they can be too.

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29 Jun 2018 22:08 #193876 by kirkynut

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S200KYS wrote: The ‘average’ Jimny owner isn’t going to want to release the wheel bearings and then re-torque them up to be able to get the nut out to cut the lip off it though?

And why bother when you can either buy spacers or hubs that just fit?

Times have moved on!

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