The Mitsubishi Pajero Owners Club®

Craigyboy21 · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 20:56 Post subject: 1st time owner

Recently just bought a 56 plate Shogun Sport Trojan. It's only got 41k miles and is in good order.
I bought it so I can use it for shooting and take it off the beaten track.

I thought this would be the perfect forum to learn a bit more about the vehicle.

Would anyone be kind enough to explain how I engage the 4 wheel drive. I don't know when the 4wd was last engaged and I'd like to try it out.

I'm putting the vehicle in next week for a Mitsy service and to get the cambelt changed, as part of the service they will change the diff oil.
Would it be best to wait until after the service to try the 4wd?

The site looks great and I hope to learn a lot from it.

Thanks for reading.

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trekker · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 16:21 Post subject:

I think the Shogun Sport has much the same transfer case action as the Mk1, but not sure enough of that to offer advice.

Someone will come on shortly, I'm sure.

trekker · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 16:25 Post subject:

And welcome to the Club. !

If you have time, run the 4WD before the service, you need to be doing this on a quite frequent interval anyway.

trekker · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 13:54 Post subject:

Ok, yes your transmission is as a Mk1 , that's known as Part Time, because you cant use 4wd all the time.

Normal hard surface driving in done in 2wd. You can't use 4wd on hard grippy surfaces.

On slippery surfaces such as grass, mud, sand and gravel you can use 4wd. To engage, stop the truck, move the 4wd lever into 4 High and drive off, changing gear as usual. You see the green dash lights indicating all wheels are driving. For low range, stop the truck, move the same lever into 4 Low and drive off, you'll now feel the low gearing effect.

To return to 2H, stop the truck, move this lever to 2h, reverse a metre or two, then drive forward as normal. All the 4wd dash lights will go out.

That's the basics. I wrote a quite detailed and more extensive advice on this just the other day, so ypu may find this elsewhere.

dave

£9000 insurance quote WTF · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 8:07 Post subject: hey and welcome to teh club

use 4h but not on teh road learnt that the hard with my mk1 make sure you are stopped first if you decide to take the old girl off road then dont be scared to try the other 4wd modes but do not exceed the 10 mph just let teh paj to move itself

1066 Boy · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 20:32 Post subject:

Welcome to the club mate. Smile