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Originally Posted by 123c
I love the 4 low and e-lockers in my Tacoma  , I went up a rutted out and muddied up road yesterday, and wouldn't have made it without them both. Gotta love the e-lockers, I just need to figure out how to do the mods to get it to work on 4 hi, I guess there is a saftey switch that needs to be jumped  |
I’m not going to tell you not to rig your Tacoma to run with the diffs locked in 4-H. But, I will say this: Be very careful where, when and how fast you go with all four corners locked up. As I’m sure you can imagine, you’d better be on some pretty slick stuff when doing it over about 15mph. I’m not sure how the transfer case and transmission are set up for it on the Tacoma, but it seems to me that safety switch may be there for a good reason. I have a Pinzgauer 710K that when all four corners (both diffs) are locked and I’m in high range, on anything other than mud or very loose gravel over 10mph, it sounds like things are wanting to explode from down under.
Not to mention you might find it hard to make any quick direction changes all locked up like that at higher speeds. The Pinz can also lock it’s transfer case. I’m not sure about the Tacoma. If not, that may actually be a good thing for you and the transmission. I'm sure you know your OR driving. I'd just hate to hear you blew some gears up.
I'm into the slow controled crawl mself.
Sounds to me like you’re out to make one heck of a mud slinger. Enjoy. And let us know how the safety switch mods work out.
Also - Knowing you can’t “shift on the fly” in and out of 4-L: That safety switch might have something to do with not letting you jump in and out of 4WD with the diffs locked. That might hurt on the wrong surface.