Description
When driving on normal, dry, paved road (two-wheel drive) the front wheels are separated from the driveline. This prevents unnecessary wear on the front drive shaft and increased fuel consumption. The separation takes place with a free-wheel hub.
The free-wheel hub can be activated either automatically or manually.
The automatic free-wheel hubs work either with vacuum or mechanical. With automatic freewheel hubs, after disengaging the four-wheel drive, you have to drive a short distance backwards to activate the freewheel again. This is not necessary on the pneumatic, suppressor controlled free-wheel hubs.
On car models with manual free-wheel hubs, it is necessary to manually switch on or off the free-wheel hub directly on the wheel hub before connecting respectively after disconnecting the four-wheel drive.
If there are any parts that you cannot find in our webshop / web catalogue, please contact us and we will try to find these parts for you.