Pajero Owners Club of South Africa

1.What is the best way to engage LR? Must the car be in Neutral?
Must it be stationary?
2. When can RD lock be selected? in 2hr, 4hr, 4llc, or 4Lr?

I am new to this car, I dont want to "fry" up.

MUST be in neutral before you go to 4LLc

diff lock only works in 4llc

Thanks

I assume you are talking about your new Paj Sport, which would be automatic?

LLc can only be engaged when the vehicle is stationary
LLc can only be engaged when the gear selector is in Park or Neutral

I am not sure how your rear diff lock ECU works. It will most likely not allow you to engage the rear diff lock unless the center diff is locked first. This would mean that you could engage the rear diff lock in 4HLc and 4LLc (my Gen 3 DiD works like this). It is also possible that the ECU is programmed to only allow the rear diff to lock in 4LLc. What does your owner's manual say? It will have a section on this topic.

my gen3 di-d does not want to engage 4llc in park - only in neutral

Ok so this means,1. I can go from 2wd to 4wd under 100km/h. it has then a 67% rear 33% front power distribution. 2. I can then go to 4wd in high range with a center diff locked, giving me 50%/50% power to wheels distribution.3. then i must be stationary, in N to go to low range. I can only select RD lock when centre diff lock is engaged,in high range or low range.?

Bostokkelos wrote:Ok so this means,1. I can go from 2wd to 4wd under 100km/h. it has then a 67% rear 33% front power distribution. 2. I can then go to 4wd in high range with a center diff locked, giving me 50%/50% power to wheels distribution.3. then i must be stationary, in N to go to low range. I can only select RD lock when centre diff lock is engaged,in high range or low range.?

Sounds about right, except that I am not sure if Rear Difflock will work in 4HL or only in 4LL

To add: My difflock also disengage automatically above a certain speed, I think 60km/h, not sure, and it will also disengage automatically when you switch the vehicle off or stall it. So remember to re-engage if you stalled the vehicle in an axcle twister where you had the Rear DL engaged. - This is as far as I can recall on my vehicles. I have no first hand knowledge of the Pajero Sport but assume it to be similar.

CATS
PS - Thanks for the chat at my office earlier. It was good to meet!

Absolutely !! good to meet you, we must go for a drink. Thanks for the advice, luckely mine is Auto, so it shouldnt stall. Thanks guys, great forum.

Bostokkelos, if you will pardon me, I am going to be a little pedantic in my comments below:

Bostokkelos wrote:1. I can go from 2wd to 4wd under 100km/h. it has then a 67% rear 33% front power distribution.

You can engage 4H at up to 100 km/h, but I believe that you have a first generation Super Select transfer box in the Sport, i.e. the manually shifted version. This transfer box has a conventional bevel gear center diff and not a planetary center diff as used in the electrically shifted Super Select II transfer box used in the Gen 3 and Gen 4. A normal bevel gear center diff splits torque (not power) equally between the front and rear axles, but this center diff is, well diff-erent: it has a viscous coupler connecting the front and rear propshafts turning it into a viscous limited slip diff. This setup means that it will only split torque 50/50 if both the axles has equal traction. If one axle starts to spin out, torque is biassed to the other one.

Bostokkelos wrote:2. I can then go to 4wd in high range with a center diff locked, giving me 50%/50% power to wheels distribution.

No. Locking the center diff will ensure that the front and rear propshafts rotate at the same speed, but the torque will be distributed according to the traction available. Power is the product of torque and rotation speed, so in general power will not split 50/50, although this could be the case if both axles have equal grip. This concept is frequently misunderstood and mis-explained in the motoring world.

Bostokkelos wrote:3. then i must be stationary, in N to go to low range. I can only select RD lock when centre diff lock is engaged,in high range or low range.?

Once again, what does your owner's manual say? Different vehicles are set up differently, so I, as the owner of a 2003 Gen 3 DiD would not really know exactly how yours works. As far as I know, all Super Select boxes are supposed to go into LLc when the autobox is in P or N.

Baie dankie,