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Thanks for all the good advice. I had another look today and found that if I clamp off the rubber vacuum pipes just below the bulkhead,,where the metal pipes from the solenoids end and press the 4x4 button then the transfer box engages correctly. If I then clamp off each pair of vacuum pipes,one pair at a time,,I found that with the offside clamped, pressing the 4X4 button engaged the transfer box and locked the nearside hub giving me a constant green light on the dash. When I reversed this to the nearside pipes clamped I got the dreaded flashing green light. I did the clamping as near as possible to the plastic T piece which diverts vacuum to each hub. I,ve got a few yards of new silicon rubber tube coming so intend to replace the lot to be sure that there is no problem there. My car has rubber tube right the way across the front axle so no corroded metal pipes for me ! Whilst looking at the O/S hub I found that the wheel bearing to be a bit slack so I,ll replace that and have a thorough look at vacuum routes at the same time,,and if possible,,take pictures of the result and put them on here.
If you have a slack wheel bearing it is possible that the vacuum is leaking from the hub nut flangeas it is the running surface for the hub seal. Any miss alignment is undesirable.
Temeraire (2018 quasar grey automatic)
One of the last 200ish of the gen3s, probably.
Bellerophon (2024 grello van daily
ADOS Attention Deficit Ooooh Shiny!
Just what I am starting to think,,so I've a bearing kit with seals etc to belt and brace the job. As an aside,,I was in a particularly claggy field close to Harrogate when it decided to play up yet with very road type tyres and no 4X4 the car just sailed through it all without a twitch !!
Id be very interested to observe/give you a hand replacing the front wheel baring as I think one of mine my need doing at some point. Ive replace the king pin barings many times so I would be hopefully more than a hindrance.
I live near harrogate.
Ooooh a harrogate massive! We'll have to have a meet to compare and contrast Jimny mods!
Temeraire (2018 quasar grey automatic)
One of the last 200ish of the gen3s, probably.
Bellerophon (2024 grello van daily
ADOS Attention Deficit Ooooh Shiny!
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