4wd issues

[KevoTheFord]

We got some snow so i figured I would try the 4wd out today and the truck jerks around and doesn’t want to drive. My truck is less than 5 months old but it is the first time I have used 4wd for actual driving aside from pulling our trailer out of a swampy campsite. Anyone ever experience anything like this? I had to stop around the corner from our house and go back to 2wd and everything worked fine

 

[jadmt]

sounds normal if you were on dry pavement....

 

[jetrinka]

sounds normal if you were on dry pavement....

This. Good way to grenade something

 

[el_barto]

Are you trying to describe power hop?

 

[KevoTheFord]

Honestly I’m not the most mechanically inclined but the best description of what I felt is it was like driving with someone new to driving a manual transmission really jerky and choppy and then throttle didn’t seemed to do anything. I was driving in 4” of snow and drove less than 100’ before I had to pull over

 

[flan]

Definitely not normal. Were you in 4wd hi or low? I’d get that into the dealer ASAP.

 

[Shadowboxin20]

Yea that’s not normal at all

 

[Thedaran]

I'm not an expert but kind of sounds like you were trying to improperly go from 2hi to 4low? Have you figured out the problem?

 

[red]

Same size tires front and back? I saw a real life example of this years ago, the guy couldn't figure out what was wrong with the truck when in 4WD. He wound up destroying the transfer case.

 

[Crusty old shellback]

Did you shut off traction control? That could cause it.

 

[fuchsroehre]

it should drive normal if you go straight. Other than more traction when accelerating nothing should be different between 2H and 4H. Only going around corners in 4H is more difficult when you are on a good traction surface. The truck does not want to steer as good around corners and needs more power to do so.

 

[JimKIII]

Did you shut off traction control? That could cause it.

What is Traction Control? Is that separate from the Anti-lock rear end?

 

[H3LZSN1P3R]

What is Traction Control? Is that separate from the Anti-lock rear end?

Its the button with a car and squiggly lines in the center stack when pressed it allows you to spin the tires

 

[Icky]

 

[MEGA HO]

If he was in 4" of snow, that is not normal.
All my trucks (personal and work) that I've driven in winter months, I've driven in 4wd when roads were anything but clean and dry pavement. Never an issue.