I'm kind of confused here. I'm rebuilding steering knuckles and am done with one side. But when I lock the hub and engage 4WD with truck jacked up the wheel spins freely. Did I do something wrong or is this normal? Sorry for dumb question I am a noob. The other side which I haven't started working on is also jacked up and the wheel spins when hubs are locked and 4WD engaged.
I noticed on the side that I finished - when I was putting the axle/birfield back in, I got it seated all the way, but was still able to freely rotated the birfield around. I was told this is fine, but I was expecting not to be able to rotate the axle/birfiled if spines were engaged and 4WD engaged. Obviously at that point the locking hub was off.
This is on an 84 solid axle btw. Thanks
I noticed on the side that I finished - when I was putting the axle/birfield back in, I got it seated all the way, but was still able to freely rotated the birfield around. I was told this is fine, but I was expecting not to be able to rotate the axle/birfiled if spines were engaged and 4WD engaged. Obviously at that point the locking hub was off.
This is on an 84 solid axle btw. Thanks