- Dec 4, 2011
- 597
I've never really had a problem with my 4WD, but any time my truck sits outside in the cold weather, and I turn it on, sometimes it won't let me shift out of 2wd and it says Service 4WD on the dash. The actuator light just blinks for whatever setting I put it on. Just kinda sucks because otherwise I have to warm it up a good 10-15 minutes (driving) before I can turn it on. The other day I was leaving work, and the roads were snowy and icy, so I turned my truck on, and started driving through the parking lot, shifted into A4WD, and it didn't engage, and the Service light came on. So I pulled to the side and shut the truck off (I've turned it off before, and restarted it and it would allow my 4wd to engage then), but this time, the truck wouldn't restart. It took about 10 different cranks for it to finally start back up... so about 5 minutes total had passed. Was my engine "flooded" because I turned it off while it was still revving high to warm up?