The manufacturer.

 

Considering I have spent years plowing with part time transfer cases in 4wd on the pavement, dry pavement mind you also. And not once had a problem.

I consider this jibberish for the joe.

I am not advocating running your part time on dry pavement constantly. There is no reason. But I am not ignorant enough to believe that running said transfer case on the dry pavement for a day will blow my spider gears out.

No offense to anyone at all. Its not meant as such.

 

LMAO!


NO I simple tested it around town to see how the noise and clicking would be.

LOL

 

I never said it would blow out your spiders. It just puts added (unnecessary) stress on your driveline, from turning sharp and from your tires not being an identical height. Driving in part time with a front locker on the street is a terrible idea. If you made any sharp turns, I'm sure something would have grenaded unless you had terrible tires.

Why were you plowing dry pavement? :P
Did the trucks you were driving have locking hubs?

 

Many times you end up on dry pavement. Wet pavement is the same when you have an 8ft plow on the front, and a skid of salt in the rear. No lockouts on newer model chevys.

Transfer was a np261c part time unit.

Also if the spartan can't handle winter driving then its going up for sale. You always can end up on dry pavement, even in winter.

But considering there was no warning label to my knowledge, I think we will be fine.

The jeep and other 4wd's are made knowing people will run them in winter in 4wd. And not always on snow.

The biggest concern is not breakage but rather adverse handling affects.

 

That would mean that my Jeep came equiped with missmatched sized tires from the factory then, because when I flip my visor it says to use the 231 on wet , loose surface only.

 

It comes from the owners manual that you cant buddy. It because there's no differentiation in that transfer case between the front and rear axle. That's why it's called part time 4wd, because you can't run it on just any surface, ie. Pavement. Btw, be careful with the Spartan cam gears, they tend to put uneven pressure on the hardened cross pin shaft which is why their hardened cross pins have such a high fail rate.

 

Where did you find that

 

From the president of Torq masters Inc the makers of the Aussie. After our last little debate I called around to get info from manufactures and the Aussie guy said their carrier/cross pin fail rate is far far lower then Spartans because of the way the cam gear distributes pressure over the entire cross shaft as opposed to Spartans design. He directed me to pirate4x4.com to compare reviews. While I will admit to obvious bias in mine and the Aussie prez cases, but you sure can find a ton of Spartan failure stories on line and they are much newer then Aussies.

 

Well I only went with spartan because with the research I did I found fewer spartans had problems.

I am not brand loyal to nothing. Not even my jeep. May the best product win in my opinion

 

Right, and in the owners manual of most quad manufacturers it states to never run your quad in water that is over the floor boards....


Honestly, I am not being careful with this spartan at all. I will drive on dry pavement. I will abuse the locker, and I will report back.

If it breaks then everyone will know. I will not use a product if I have to be on pins and needles. so consider this review VALID! LOL

And so far its taken the dry pavement, and my offroading. That and its a damaged spartan from where my carrier came apart. The cross pin is a stock cross pin from the spider gears.

 

You really should change those out for some matched tires

 

For the sake of clarity, are you planning on using 4wd with diff lockers for ON road during winter conditions?

 

Many do. I probably will a little. Shoot we did not get much of a winter last year.

And just for clarity. Can you run part time 4wd on dry rocks?

 

Ok well... I'm not going to go any further with you. We live on different planets. Have a good day