Only if there is a cop in the lane beside you and your making a turn. Burrp brr er er. Then your trying to explain that it was like that when you got it and the shop said someone welded the gears together. And that some how that makes it better but harder to take apart.. they didn’t tell you why though…
Heyyy so you Seam to know more then meeee😂😂😂🤜🤛. What dose an 17 too 1 ratio mean and why do all the AI and Google results say that my father's jeep whitch was passed down to me has... The best rock crawling or GRannny low..that there is out there on the second hand market today.. ( SM 420 if anyone's wondering of transition and on the Dauntless 225 jeep engine w CJ-5 1969 model body)🎉
4hi :- All 4 wheel spining with engine powered delivered that can be used at high revs and speeds like rwd/2hi mode. 4low :- Only for slow speed with extra gearing ratios for greater torque though gears engage can get damaged at higher speed.
I'll give you a better example. In High range I can go down the road 60mph in 5th gear with the engine maybe 2k-3k. Low range I can take off from a stop in 5th, and the engine is screaming by the time I reach 45mph. However my engine torque is multiplied by about 2.5 times.
@@Squarebodyshelley I would argue you have some pretty tall gears. I've climbed up plenty steep inclines in 4hi at a fairly slow speed. Usually only use 4lo when I want that finess.
Remember low range increases torque not traction. The increased torque often makes it harder to maintain traction. He ran out of low speed torque so low range helped him
Only if you don’t know how to manage your accelerator. High torque is great for low traction on a hill like this (if you don’t try to be macho with the gas). Although, everyone has their own style…some people wear crocs.
LSD would be optimal for a climb like this..any axle that's completely locked also will be a hazard for off camber slick rock or snow climbs. As soon as both wheels spin you slide in the direction of gravity.
@@ineffably_describedbut for maintaining that grip a fully locked diff would be the best, though once that grip goes a LSD would be marginally better.
It should be 4H; I don’t want to get into a pickle. 4L; Man, I gotta go slow to make this. 4 low is for low speed control in high traction but steep angle areas, or making up for a lack of power or gears. But, if you are in mud, snow or sand, you only use low range if you don’t have the power to do it in high. It all comes down to type of obstacle, terrain, traction and power. The right combo will get you though a lot. If you know how to work the brakes, you can get open diffs through quite a bit. When I was young and had plenty of energy, my old feed truck was stock with a small lift and decent tires and I worked to get it where it needed to go. Now I’m old and lazy, so the truck is built with enough power, the right gears and the perfect tires for the job, and it’s no more difficult than driving down Main Street. More interesting, but no more difficult.
I'm in the process of installing a Detroit TrueTrac in my Dana 60 right now, gonna put the same thing in my Sterling 10.5, looking forward to crawling with those lockers and a 4.56:1 ratio
@@michaelfinlay1412 Yes, they are better than open differentials but nothing beats locked. If you have to go with the front or the rear locked due to costs, I can say with 100% that front is better than rear. I ran a cheaper lunch box locker on the front of an XJ for years. Well after my rear E-Locker broke leaving the rear diff as an open differential and I couldn’t hardly tell a difference. I did a lot of hard trail rock crawling with it before selling it. That thing with 35’s on a 6” lift and long arms would embarrass new and built 60k Rubicons riding on 40’s. Obviously thier jeeps were a lot nicer than my 8k XJ but not on the trails.
4-low isn't about going up a hill covered in snow... it's about being able to go down a hill covered in snow without it running away from you and losing control! Must have in the mountains!
Open difs are inferior to any other 4X4 design, but they have ther place. Everyday driving saves gas and tire wear - and some internals wear. That's why opens exist in almost every car or truck made in te last 100 years. My past XJ and my current ZJ both have totally stock setups and they haven't failed yet, but I check my line and don't do stupid stuff. Open difs are great for pulling a heavy sailboat up the ramps when it's slick with low tide sand and weeds in both Low and Hi. As long as the open side isn't hanging in the air, you'll never know the difference. Open difs are perfect on a snowy hiway or gravel forestry road, and on almostany 2-track spur off same. I alwaysd get into the weeds with no issues, rarely ever needing Low Range, except to pull a brand new $55,000 WannaBe out one time. I'm perfectly happy with my $4000 ZJ. I think I'll just leave it alone.
My 90 Bronco II is a little beast. Ive pulled just about every kind of vehicle out of being stuck while its adorable little ass doesnt even leave tire marks in mud...on street tires. Love the little guy!
That's the first truck I ever had (1997). 87 bronco 2... I loved it so much but what a heap of shit. It had like 89k miles and I had to replace 4 major engine parts, rust everywhere, exhaust leak melting my carpets. Also I got stuck and some dingus in a Dodge Ram shamed me for offroading in a bronco 2, before pulling me out, then he promptly got stuck too. Like 20 feet away from me. Then a farmer with a tractor pulled us both out and charged me 50 bucks. But it was a Eddie Bauer edition, so that was pretty cool.
@@glenmchargue5461 Mine is an Eddie as well and it has 18k miles on it...that's a 1 and an 8. My old one burned a 1 foot hole in the rear when the cat clogged and ruined the rear seat too. Lol My current one pulled a 2wd Ram today from the mud, his trailer, and then a full size 2500 with a lift, a Cummins and giant tires after he tried to help the Ram. I had to jump the bronco because the battery was dead so it was even more funny.
I had an 96 ZJ with a Dana 35 in the front and 44 in the rear. Only got stuck once, and managed to get out by having my friends sit in the back. Got me through a very harsh winter, managed to help others who got stuck, and my dad even borrowed it often to get to work during bad snow storms. I miss that jeep so much. She was a trooper througout the 3 years i had her
While i absolutely adored my xj, which literally ran until the doors fell off (445k miles), the wiper relay and the open diffs were the Achilles heal. Nothing like having to smack the fusebox repeatedly in a torrential downpour while on a sketchy mountainside trail. That said, the beast towed my wife's toyota home a few times, and was the only vehicle in the neighborhood capable of getting to town during a blizzard and ice storm. Gone but not forgotten. Now i got lockers and all the fancy shit and we havent had a flake of snow since.
@@derekedmondson9909 true enough. Though very few people consider actually getting the proper transmission, or even modifying their current one. After the lift blocks and big tires, there's nothing left.
That was the best vehicle I ever had, all I did was put some off-road tires on it and that thing was like unstoppable, I like it so much I bought one in like 2009, junk complete, only buy between 94 and 96, the newer ones are fast and that's about it...🤦🏻
One of the greatest best vehicles ever made. I have a 95 high output. Absolutely love it Totaled it twice. Need to fix the bent frame the second time.😢 Fix the oil leaks added. All kind of extras runs better at two hundred and twenty thousand miles than it did at ninety, when I bought it. ❤
Oh yeah! I bought my 2000 XJ sport brand new. Got rid of it at 150,000 miles, when there was nothing wrong with it. Got a Grand Cherokee… didn’t like that. Wish I’d never gotten rid of my perfect XJ! Someday I’ll find a really nice one to buy, probably for more money than I sold my 12 year old XJ for! Lol
Open diffs are for Karens in California weather. Limited slip is for the streets and inclement weather with halfway competent drivers or better. Lockers are for offroad and spools are for drift and drag cars.
Apparently one goes up the bottom half of the hill, and the other goes up the top half. I would think "4-Hi" would do the top, but they had it reversed.
In case your wondering, he started off in 4low and switched to 4hi half way up the hill. 4hi is better in a low traction situation because theres less torque and increased speed going to the wheels.
4 low and a light throttle will generally get you through the slick stuff. If you get bogged on a beach 4 low and steady idle will get you out unless your buried to the frame. Deep snow and mud require 4 high.
I’m a LR enthusiast and collector but don’t know way. That cherokee sport always had a soft spot on my heart, those squared although not so bulky lines seems damn pretty, still remember the very first I saw in 1995 then on the movies with Tom Hanks in Cast Away.
I had a 94 f150 with a Windsor cam 5.0l and 5 speed on 33's. My two jeep buddies would call me when both their jeeps would get hung up. At least once or twice every summer I'd have to go drag two jeeps out of the mud. I think it was mostly driver error because my truck was not set up like their xj's, I didn't have a lift kit and had to rely on reeming my engine just to get to the places they would be stuck
The only time you’re using 4-Hi is for additional traction on fairly normal roads where you want to go moderate speeds. For example; a snow covered paved road. 4-Low is for everything else. Open diffs are never better if you want traction. The end.
So I'm not a 4 wheeler but years ago, I had a Mitsubishi Montero. For the beach, I had 4-hi, 4-low, and DIFF LOK. So is diff lock the opposite of an open diff situation? Worked well in deep sand. Thanks.
My family was stuck getting up a snowy hill. I jumped in and put the car in 2nd gear with traction control off and just kept speed up the hill. 1.5 hours of stuck over in a few seconds lol
4 high is for more higher speed obstacles the still require 4wd like going through deep trenches of mud while 4 low is for crawling scenarios like this one where you need less speed but more torque
I use low range for muddy mountain areas and obviously 4wheel diff locks my low range locks the rear diff but for some reason 4 wheel engages my front drive but not diff lock. Front diff lock is manual. Basically 4 low gets me out of just about anything. Don’t think I’ve ever been stuck enough to use a winch… cuz I don’t have one. 😂
I have a standard 98 wrangler 4 cylinder, and i was literally vertical about to slide into a 15ft trench if i took my foot off the brake!! I threw it in 4 low and reverse, and it inched itself back out !!! Scariest situation I've ever been in!!!!
My expectation was to see a cherokee do cherokee things. I envisioned a cherokee try to crawl something in 4 hi, cut to cherokee bouncing off the Rev limiter in 4th gear, bouncing all over the trail.
I prefer manual mode in low range so that I can utilize third low which is just a slight lower gear than first High put a lot of vehicles don't have manual mode in low range automatic. The ones that do know what I'm talking about it's a great torque reduction when taking off in mud or snow but still in low range
I have never needed 4lo in anything. 4 hi seems to work fine in pretty much all situations. Only thing i could think of 4 lo being needed is if your towing something.
Congratulations on 1 million Paul! I refuse to believe you’re not gonna beat this. And Roy, you shoot. Please get John man bun off camera until he’s had a lot more polishing and shooting practice.
Actually back in the 80's, the Cherokee was praised by the off-road magazines and won "4x4 Of The Year" several times. But for daily drivers, grocery-getters, and soccer moms, the long-term reliability was sub par compared to the underpowered Toyota 4 Runner of the time.
I had one of these Cherokees and it came with a General Motors 2.8 liter V-6. Bought it off a guy that couldn't figure out why he kept breaking the flex plate where the torque converter bolts up. About every 6 months he'd be pulling it apart putting in another flex plate on a weekend. The last one he put in, he decided to order a crankshaft. He put a crankshaft and flex plate in and it happened again. So, he sold it to me for $100. LMAO 😂😂 When I checked it out at home 🏡 the first thing I spot was the harmonic balancer wobbling around. That was his whole problem. You'd think he would have noticed that when replacing the crankshaft. The vibration was cracking the spot welds on the flex plates. That is an example of harmonic balancers going bad can lead to destruction of the entire drive train. Starting with the engine, transmission and through the drive stick, U-joints and differential! When you see one wobbling, replace it immediately! 😂👍
They don't get as much love or respect as the Jeep Wrangler . But XJ Cherokees are quite possibly the best 4 x 4 ever made . I've had two Wranglers and one two-door limited Cherokee . The Cherokee wouldn't have sold for more than about $1,000 . I sold my 2003 Wrangler for 11 Grand . But that Cherokee could go all sorts of places where the Wrangler would get stuck .
With open diffs the second one side loses traction all the power from that axle will go straight to the tire with no traction. Open differentials are never better, and you would be surprised what a cheap lunchbox locker would do especially on a climb like in the video.
open diffs= less climbing with open diffs most you have it 2 tires to spin 1 front 1 rear with limited slip/posi or lockers you can achieve true 4 wheel drive
Seems to be some confusion in the comment section maybe this helps people i pretty much never use 4low but it absolutely helps if u cant afford to have wheel spin its a good option if u got a heavy foot and unless on the street lockers are always the way if u can get then you should
People underestimate how a good rb helps out our qb and overall balance on offense. Just like 2016 but better! Let’s get a lb and dt and get Henry or Barkley and we are set! If we don’t keep pollard draft the rb from Florida state
Open diffs are only a hinderance in basically every situation 😂 the only time open diffs help is when turning, but even then it only helps at high(er) speeds. And this did not display the difference between 4-Hi and 4-Lo very well at all. He could have made that climb in 4-Hi if he had gone into the climb faster. Sure if the whole point was to climb up it slowly, yeah 4-Lo helped with the low end torque due to a lower gear ratio.
Open diffs is basically never better.
They are in parking lots
Only if there is a cop in the lane beside you and your making a turn. Burrp brr er er. Then your trying to explain that it was like that when you got it and the shop said someone welded the gears together. And that some how that makes it better but harder to take apart.. they didn’t tell you why though…
Heyyy so you Seam to know more then meeee😂😂😂🤜🤛.
What dose an 17 too 1 ratio mean and why do all the AI and Google results say that my father's jeep whitch was passed down to me has... The best rock crawling or GRannny low..that there is out there on the second hand market today.. ( SM 420 if anyone's wondering of transition and on the Dauntless 225 jeep engine w CJ-5 1969 model body)🎉
They always are duh 😂😂😂
@@flubbernugget888888that's very true
Open differentials are only better for turning
Thank God they invented selectable lockers
Not even.
Better on a slippery side hill too. But that's about it.
Good thing every vehicle turns
Sidehilling
Thanks… I still know nothing about “4-Hi” and “4-Low.” 🤣
4hi :- All 4 wheel spining with engine powered delivered that can be used at high revs and speeds like rwd/2hi mode.
4low :- Only for slow speed with extra gearing ratios for greater torque though gears engage can get damaged at higher speed.
I'll give you a better example. In High range I can go down the road 60mph in 5th gear with the engine maybe 2k-3k. Low range I can take off from a stop in 5th, and the engine is screaming by the time I reach 45mph. However my engine torque is multiplied by about 2.5 times.
@@derekeuchner1800that's actually way better example than the video showed, thanks. (Mostly always owned small cars and sedans. )
4HI can't climb versus 4LO can climb, simple really lol
@@Squarebodyshelley I would argue you have some pretty tall gears. I've climbed up plenty steep inclines in 4hi at a fairly slow speed. Usually only use 4lo when I want that finess.
If u in 4 high u should be going faster. High is not intended for slow speed, that's why u have 4lo
Not if torque is a problem. If torque is an issue 4 low will be better
@@Prestiged_peck..... that's what he said
If traction is an issue I've been told keep it in high
@@patrickmuzzisorta, I've been told 4 high to throw the mud out of your tread if it's thick af
@patrickmuzzi but on ice once you start spinning its hard to keep or regain control
Remember low range increases torque not traction. The increased torque often makes it harder to maintain traction. He ran out of low speed torque so low range helped him
In so many words that's what I came to say
Lockers betters
I have diff lock in low
Very true statement sir
Only if you don’t know how to manage your accelerator. High torque is great for low traction on a hill like this (if you don’t try to be macho with the gas). Although, everyone has their own style…some people wear crocs.
Open diffs are not better for that.. or basically any situation you need that sort of traction.
😂😂😂
@@Squarebodyshelley I left all the way to the bank when I heard that
@@callmeafter10 🤣🤣🍻🍻🍻
LSD would be optimal for a climb like this..any axle that's completely locked also will be a hazard for off camber slick rock or snow climbs. As soon as both wheels spin you slide in the direction of gravity.
@@ineffably_describedbut for maintaining that grip a fully locked diff would be the best, though once that grip goes a LSD would be marginally better.
4 high: I may be in a pickle
4 Low: I'm in a pickle
😂😂😂 this was me last week on a trial realizing 4H wasn’t going to get me home
It should be
4H; I don’t want to get into a pickle.
4L; Man, I gotta go slow to make this.
4 low is for low speed control in high traction but steep angle areas, or making up for a lack of power or gears. But, if you are in mud, snow or sand, you only use low range if you don’t have the power to do it in high. It all comes down to type of obstacle, terrain, traction and power. The right combo will get you though a lot. If you know how to work the brakes, you can get open diffs through quite a bit. When I was young and had plenty of energy, my old feed truck was stock with a small lift and decent tires and I worked to get it where it needed to go. Now I’m old and lazy, so the truck is built with enough power, the right gears and the perfect tires for the job, and it’s no more difficult than driving down Main Street. More interesting, but no more difficult.
Open diffs do nothing better except steer.
Detroit in the rear and an ox locker or ARB in the front is best
So you're saying there is one thing they are better at? 🤔 lol 😂
@@Squarebodyshelley Yeah... That's literally exactly what he means. Maybe read the message again?
A Detroit locker is definitely in my future 😂
I 2nd that. Eaton Detroit has saved my behind. Spline gears. Very strong. .and yea ARB def for the front. Prevents snapping the axle.
I'm in the process of installing a Detroit TrueTrac in my Dana 60 right now, gonna put the same thing in my Sterling 10.5, looking forward to crawling with those lockers and a 4.56:1 ratio
Open Differentials are NEVER better than locked when Off-Roading. XJ’s are amazing machines!
Yeah tell that to your snapped drive axles
have you considered limited slip differentials?
@@michaelfinlay1412 Yes, they are better than open differentials but nothing beats locked. If you have to go with the front or the rear locked due to costs, I can say with 100% that front is better than rear. I ran a cheaper lunch box locker on the front of an XJ for years. Well after my rear E-Locker broke leaving the rear diff as an open differential and I couldn’t hardly tell a difference. I did a lot of hard trail rock crawling with it before selling it. That thing with 35’s on a 6” lift and long arms would embarrass new and built 60k Rubicons riding on 40’s. Obviously thier jeeps were a lot nicer than my 8k XJ but not on the trails.
Remember the days when you had to lock the hubs into 4 wheel drive? God i feel old
I still do lol ill take manual locking hubs over electronic anyday
there are still 3 I drive that have manual hubs.
My uncle still had 1 with locking hubs. But you don't find them like you used to. Which is a shame fr. I think they were a lot better
My 2017 still requires me to lock the hubs
@@OneTwoFourFloorI was going to say that’s not completely old school 😂
How to tell people you don't know how to offroad "I think open diffs climb it little easier"
So how do you tell if they are not smart?
I lost a chromosome hearing those words
Inline 6 never stops... a couple of mine had a sweet spot of about 65mph that sounded like a meditation hum.. it was always so calming.
Missing my Cherokee and the 4.0L Inline 6. Wishing JEEP would bring it back.
dude that sounds beasty - wha happend??
@@JUNIOR-sp6mp prolly blew up, its a jeep 😂
Those 4.0 straight 6s dont blow up one of the best engines ever made@@TheSergio1021
4-low isn't about going up a hill covered in snow... it's about being able to go down a hill covered in snow without it running away from you and losing control! Must have in the mountains!
it's about being able to go slow and have tons of stump pulling torque.
@@kenbrown2808 there are better ways of dealing with stumps.
@@ltjon1924you don't always have an excavator handy.
Open difs are inferior to any other 4X4 design, but they have ther place. Everyday driving saves gas and tire wear - and some internals wear. That's why opens exist in almost every car or truck made in te last 100 years.
My past XJ and my current ZJ both have totally stock setups and they haven't failed yet, but I check my line and don't do stupid stuff. Open difs are great for pulling a heavy sailboat up the ramps when it's slick with low tide sand and weeds in both Low and Hi. As long as the open side isn't hanging in the air, you'll never know the difference. Open difs are perfect on a snowy hiway or gravel forestry road, and on almostany 2-track spur off same. I alwaysd get into the weeds with no issues, rarely ever needing Low Range, except to pull a brand new $55,000 WannaBe out one time. I'm perfectly happy with my $4000 ZJ. I think I'll just leave it alone.
Nah, you do that by cutting power to the wheels, not by reducing the speed by increasing revs it wants to run at.
My 90 Bronco II is a little beast. Ive pulled just about every kind of vehicle out of being stuck while its adorable little ass doesnt even leave tire marks in mud...on street tires. Love the little guy!
That's the first truck I ever had (1997). 87 bronco 2... I loved it so much but what a heap of shit. It had like 89k miles and I had to replace 4 major engine parts, rust everywhere, exhaust leak melting my carpets.
Also I got stuck and some dingus in a Dodge Ram shamed me for offroading in a bronco 2, before pulling me out, then he promptly got stuck too. Like 20 feet away from me. Then a farmer with a tractor pulled us both out and charged me 50 bucks.
But it was a Eddie Bauer edition, so that was pretty cool.
@@glenmchargue5461 Mine is an Eddie as well and it has 18k miles on it...that's a 1 and an 8. My old one burned a 1 foot hole in the rear when the cat clogged and ruined the rear seat too. Lol
My current one pulled a 2wd Ram today from the mud, his trailer, and then a full size 2500 with a lift, a Cummins and giant tires after he tried to help the Ram. I had to jump the bronco because the battery was dead so it was even more funny.
The mighty 4.0L tractor
Such a great engine and those old Cherokee were unstoppable
242ci REPRESENT.
That's why I have three of them, lol.
Джип XJ самый лучший в мире у меня 1988 года и он ездит как настоящий танк 😅❤❤❤ 👍🏻 👍🏻 👍🏻 👍🏻 👍🏻
I had an 96 ZJ with a Dana 35 in the front and 44 in the rear. Only got stuck once, and managed to get out by having my friends sit in the back. Got me through a very harsh winter, managed to help others who got stuck, and my dad even borrowed it often to get to work during bad snow storms. I miss that jeep so much. She was a trooper througout the 3 years i had her
I'd be in high side at 30+ mph ripping rpm. But if you're trying to crawl then 4 low with first gear and no throttle should walk up that.
You definitely still need a little throttle to crawl up it unless you twin stick it
I agree. My stock 5-speed 4.0 TJ walks itself up things just as steep just by letting the clutch out slowly with a good tire on.
Speed is always the key!
Doesnt matter what ur doing,
if it involves driving,
Go Fast and be a Winner 🏆
While i absolutely adored my xj, which literally ran until the doors fell off (445k miles), the wiper relay and the open diffs were the Achilles heal. Nothing like having to smack the fusebox repeatedly in a torrential downpour while on a sketchy mountainside trail. That said, the beast towed my wife's toyota home a few times, and was the only vehicle in the neighborhood capable of getting to town during a blizzard and ice storm. Gone but not forgotten. Now i got lockers and all the fancy shit and we havent had a flake of snow since.
If I have learned anything in the last day, it’s that a 1920s Model T could drift up that hill and clear the top by three inches
Care to tell the story?! Lol
Those XJ's are pretty amazing actually.
I love my Cherokee. 315k still running like a top. 4.0 will never die
That's hilarious. Because id just send it in first 4 hi.. To the limiter and id basically jump that hill
it would run out of power before getting up it lol
And locking diffs especially in slippery terrians.
Manual gearbox can especially help on steep inclines. Given there's no torque converter to starve of fluid.
@@derekeuchner1800 if your torque converter is ‘starving for fluid’ then it’s the wrong automatic for the task.
@@derekedmondson9909 true enough. Though very few people consider actually getting the proper transmission, or even modifying their current one. After the lift blocks and big tires, there's nothing left.
That was the best vehicle I ever had, all I did was put some off-road tires on it and that thing was like unstoppable, I like it so much I bought one in like 2009, junk complete, only buy between 94 and 96, the newer ones are fast and that's about it...🤦🏻
4 high is more useful if you have momentum and a smooth enough hill to climb at speed
One of the greatest best vehicles ever made. I have a 95 high output. Absolutely love it Totaled it twice. Need to fix the bent frame the second time.😢 Fix the oil leaks added. All kind of extras runs better at two hundred and twenty thousand miles than it did at ninety, when I bought it. ❤
Oh yeah! I bought my 2000 XJ sport brand new. Got rid of it at 150,000 miles, when there was nothing wrong with it. Got a Grand Cherokee… didn’t like that. Wish I’d never gotten rid of my perfect XJ! Someday I’ll find a really nice one to buy, probably for more money than I sold my 12 year old XJ for! Lol
I wish my frame wasn't bent it's been sitting for years .... 😒
If it's a Cherokee it doesn't have a bent frame.
4 HI = 10mph @ 1,600rpm
4 LO = 10mph @ Piston Shrapnel & Inside-Out Connecting Rods
Open diffs are for the road, locked is for offroad
Open diffs are for Karens in California weather. Limited slip is for the streets and inclement weather with halfway competent drivers or better. Lockers are for offroad and spools are for drift and drag cars.
Thats a nice jeep love it
An open diff is waaaaay worse for climbing that 😂😂
Man I miss my YJ, the sound of the infamous 4.0 is unbeatable
Apparently one goes up the bottom half of the hill, and the other goes up the top half. I would think "4-Hi" would do the top, but they had it reversed.
In case your wondering, he started off in 4low and switched to 4hi half way up the hill. 4hi is better in a low traction situation because theres less torque and increased speed going to the wheels.
4 low and a light throttle will generally get you through the slick stuff. If you get bogged on a beach 4 low and steady idle will get you out unless your buried to the frame. Deep snow and mud require 4 high.
Loooks like Colorado. Definitely the Rocky Mountains
That inline 6 sounds so good. Actually sounds a lot like a 12v cummins under load there
I had a straight six Cherokee and that sonofagun could crawl up the side of a mountain in 4 low.
OG machine right there. Loved mine.
I’m a LR enthusiast and collector but don’t know way. That cherokee sport always had a soft spot on my heart, those squared although not so bulky lines seems damn pretty, still remember the very first I saw in 1995 then on the movies with Tom Hanks in Cast Away.
Many of my stock XJ'S Conquered alot more. Nice Jeep there bulletproof.
Thank you!!!
I remember using four low once when I had my S10 Blazer It's my dream vehicle I wish I still had it everyday
I had a 94 f150 with a Windsor cam 5.0l and 5 speed on 33's. My two jeep buddies would call me when both their jeeps would get hung up. At least once or twice every summer I'd have to go drag two jeeps out of the mud. I think it was mostly driver error because my truck was not set up like their xj's, I didn't have a lift kit and had to rely on reeming my engine just to get to the places they would be stuck
The only time you’re using 4-Hi is for additional traction on fairly normal roads where you want to go moderate speeds. For example; a snow covered paved road.
4-Low is for everything else.
Open diffs are never better if you want traction.
The end.
Thank you, great reading!
I want to say that’s a nice XJ. Any that still run nowadays are nice ones though.
My 99 sport 5spd will go anywhere i need to go and look good doing it
Love my Jeep
Locked diff is the way to go, love my Subaru Outback V6
We gotta pray for some of these ladies. They really battling demons.
Jeep XJ king of the off-roaders imo
I never thought I’d hear someone say that about open diffs
XJ’s RULE 🫵😎
all else drool🤤
Open diffs will never climb anything easier lol
Yes huh. They always do. 😂😂😂 Don't you know anything man
@@Squarebodyshelley apparently not lol
@@singletrackmarc819 🤣🤣🍻🍻
My Dad Was A Semi Driver/ Semi & car mechanic and he never used 4-low In Snow!
So is this for low versus four high?
Kalamazoo native here, looking for a used bolt as well. Used model 3 possibly. Thanks for the review!
Never heard anyone think open diffs do anything but turn better
So I'm not a 4 wheeler but years ago, I had a Mitsubishi Montero. For the beach, I had 4-hi, 4-low, and DIFF LOK. So is diff lock the opposite of an open diff situation? Worked well in deep sand. Thanks.
My family was stuck getting up a snowy hill. I jumped in and put the car in 2nd gear with traction control off and just kept speed up the hill. 1.5 hours of stuck over in a few seconds lol
Good thing I had this video on w/ no sound & there's no visual representation of which is high and which is low. One can make their assumption
Last of the good old Jeeps
XJ for life 😊
4 high is for more higher speed obstacles the still require 4wd like going through deep trenches of mud while 4 low is for crawling scenarios like this one where you need less speed but more torque
I use low range for muddy mountain areas and obviously 4wheel diff locks my low range locks the rear diff but for some reason 4 wheel engages my front drive but not diff lock. Front diff lock is manual. Basically 4 low gets me out of just about anything. Don’t think I’ve ever been stuck enough to use a winch… cuz I don’t have one. 😂
That jeep sounds nice
I have a standard 98 wrangler 4 cylinder, and i was literally vertical about to slide into a 15ft trench if i took my foot off the brake!! I threw it in 4 low and reverse, and it inched itself back out !!! Scariest situation I've ever been in!!!!
My expectation was to see a cherokee do cherokee things. I envisioned a cherokee try to crawl something in 4 hi, cut to cherokee bouncing off the Rev limiter in 4th gear, bouncing all over the trail.
I'm the kind of person to just full send it from far away and try to make it up the hill
I prefer manual mode in low range so that I can utilize third low which is just a slight lower gear than first High put a lot of vehicles don't have manual mode in low range automatic. The ones that do know what I'm talking about it's a great torque reduction when taking off in mud or snow but still in low range
He's crawling up better than you cuz he's driving an xj!
XJ's are like you..... la....oh never mind
lol if I could fit inside them without my head hitting the roof I would love an xj.
Hell ya❤
Meh a Full size Tundra is better 😂 glad I made the step up.
@@psycho-nutkase9233😢
4lo is for pulling out stuck vehicles 4hi is for wheel speed to clean tires out
I don't know anyone who pulls in 4LO 😂😂
@@Squarebodyshelley I should clarify pulling out stuck vehicles sorry about that lol
@@6181green lol
I have to use 4-low get up my driveway every winter when its covered by snow.
Having a Detroit locker makes me squee
I have never needed 4lo in anything. 4 hi seems to work fine in pretty much all situations. Only thing i could think of 4 lo being needed is if your towing something.
!!!!!🤣🤣🤣 Momma said Open Diffs are the Devil ..... 🤣🤣🤣!!!!!
The best Jeep ever made. Modified tyres but anyway.
Used half his tank to up that little mound!
The only car civ car that's not a truck where oped diffs actually help are subarus since they have solid iron diffs made
Congratulations on 1 million Paul! I refuse to believe you’re not gonna beat this. And Roy, you shoot. Please get John man bun off camera until he’s had a lot more polishing and shooting practice.
Wut?
Get your hope up!
I remember when this Jeep came out everyone said it was junk , now with all the new junk released every month this jeep looks like a tank
Actually back in the 80's, the Cherokee was praised by the off-road magazines and won "4x4 Of The Year" several times. But for daily drivers, grocery-getters, and soccer moms, the long-term reliability was sub par compared to the underpowered Toyota 4 Runner of the time.
I had one of these Cherokees and it came with a General Motors 2.8 liter V-6. Bought it off a guy that couldn't figure out why he kept breaking the flex plate where the torque converter bolts up. About every 6 months he'd be pulling it apart putting in another flex plate on a weekend. The last one he put in, he decided to order a crankshaft. He put a crankshaft and flex plate in and it happened again. So, he sold it to me for $100. LMAO 😂😂 When I checked it out at home 🏡 the first thing I spot was the harmonic balancer wobbling around. That was his whole problem. You'd think he would have noticed that when replacing the crankshaft. The vibration was cracking the spot welds on the flex plates. That is an example of harmonic balancers going bad can lead to destruction of the entire drive train. Starting with the engine, transmission and through the drive stick, U-joints and differential! When you see one wobbling, replace it immediately! 😂👍
Reminder: there's an inverse relationship between off road capability and on road performance.
On road performance isn't what a jeep or 4x4s in general are built for.
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All wheel drive is nice my Honda crv with 4 inch lift 35s went anywhere I wanted to go
They don't get as much love or respect as the Jeep Wrangler . But XJ Cherokees are quite possibly the best 4 x 4 ever made . I've had two Wranglers and one two-door limited Cherokee . The Cherokee wouldn't have sold for more than about $1,000 . I sold my 2003 Wrangler for 11 Grand . But that Cherokee could go all sorts of places where the Wrangler would get stuck .
You aint explain sh!tttt!lol
4 high is for party time. 4 low is for creeping
I think the 4 low engages the centre diff lock.
With open diffs the second one side loses traction all the power from that axle will go straight to the tire with no traction. Open differentials are never better, and you would be surprised what a cheap lunchbox locker would do especially on a climb like in the video.
How would an open diff be better? In any situation? I guess other than turning radius.
That what makes a krx good...
open diffs= less climbing with open diffs most you have it 2 tires to spin 1 front 1 rear with limited slip/posi or lockers you can achieve true 4 wheel drive
Relatable as hell
I use 4 -low when I’m going down and 4-high when going up.
Sick !!
Seems to be some confusion in the comment section maybe this helps people i pretty much never use 4low but it absolutely helps if u cant afford to have wheel spin its a good option if u got a heavy foot and unless on the street lockers are always the way if u can get then you should
People underestimate how a good rb helps out our qb and overall balance on offense. Just like 2016 but better! Let’s get a lb and dt and get Henry or Barkley and we are set! If we don’t keep pollard draft the rb from Florida state
Open diffs are only a hinderance in basically every situation 😂 the only time open diffs help is when turning, but even then it only helps at high(er) speeds.
And this did not display the difference between 4-Hi and 4-Lo very well at all. He could have made that climb in 4-Hi if he had gone into the climb faster. Sure if the whole point was to climb up it slowly, yeah 4-Lo helped with the low end torque due to a lower gear ratio.
Can you adjust caster? How do you do a proper sweep with these?