My 96 xj has locking hubs, Oh by the way it is a warn conversion.
"Mike Romain" > wrote in message
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> You have permanently locked hubs, the previous owner obviously had no
> clue how to use the 4x4.
>
> You can shift on the fly into and out of 4 high at any legal speed on a
> Jeep. I just treat 4 H like any other shift and when I see a snow patch
> coming, I shift in, get back to dry and just shift back to 2x4.
>
> When using 4 low for high torque and low speeds, you should be moving
> 2-3 mph only when shifting into or out of it or you will get bad
> noises. It clunks at the best of times going into low though.
>
> Even with the older vacuum axled hubs, you didn't have to back up to
> unlock them. You sometimes have to let off on the gas pedal fast to
> bump the vacuum up to get them to work, but that is just because of old
> age and leaky vacuum hoses. If the shifter will physically shift to 2
> wheel drive, you 'are' in 2 wheel drive period. The shifter disconnects
> the front driveshaft from the engine.
>
> On my 86 CJ7 with locking hubs, I sometimes have issues getting it out
> of 4x4 low. The shifter itself won't move sometimes unless I spin
> rubber or goose it in reverse. This only happens after coming off a too
> high a traction area just before wanting to use 2x4 again.
>
> So if the shifter won't move, you have to hit reverse sometimes or spin
> rubber, but the hubs don't care one way or the other.
>
> Mike
> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>
> wrote:
>>
>> I just purchased a 2nd-hand 1994 Cherokee with the 5-speed manual,
>> part-time 4WD tranny. The previous owner told me that you needed to
>> back it up to unlock the hubs after having it in 4WD. I had to do this
>> for my 88 Trooper. But I haven't seen anything in the Jeep owner's
>> manual about backing up to unlock the hubs.
>>
>> Do I need to back to unlock hubs, or not?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Tom