sharmanator43
Member
Hi All, just wondering if someone could clear something up for good, I recently read a pretty old thread asking the question of can FL2 with their Haldex setup suffer from transmission wind up and it caught my attention because occasionally I like to drive short distances with Sand Mode selected which I found out from a much earlier posting gives the FL2 permanent 4WD, just to give the Haldex pump a bit of a working because my last Haldex pump seized, now I was so it seems wrong in thinking that 4WD vehicles with a transfer box can’t get wind up because I thought gearing inside that box allowed the 2 shafts to drive at different speeds and counteract the wind up, but someone pointed out in the old thread that Land Rover never designed the terrain response system to be used on grippy tarmac and so no system was built in to release any wind up when using the vehicle on tarmac and thus tight cornering etc causing this effect and subsequently they say you will eventually cause major strain and damage inside the transfer box, there eventually was no conclusion to the thread and everybody disagreed, does anyone know the definitive answer, is every now and then driving a short distance in Sand Mode going to lock everything up and explode my transfer box, thanks guys