Pros and Cons of Manual Hubs

[bflooks]

i believe you are incorrect, bruce. i thought you could do it on the later model 3rd gen 4runners, but that you have to disable the vtrac first. i know lee looked in to this a while back, but i don't recall the result. of course, this is only on the later 3rd gens. i know i could do it on my 98 4runner, but that is because i didn't have any of the electrical bs for my 4wd and tcase.

2 low mod only works on vehicles set-up with push button T-case, if you have a shifter to put it into the low range the mod don't work. The later model 3rd gens have a totally different set-up. The push button engages the awd aspects and not the low range. Low range still needed to be manually shifted. Tacos have a button for 4wd and another for the low range, the mod allows you to put it in the low range without engaging 4wd button first. Unless I'm wrong, but I haven't seen a 3rd gen that was all push button like the Tacos...


HI-JACK.... couldn't let Blake have all the pretty women...... now you'll have to guess who she is

i am not trying to pick a fight here, but i know someone that did this on his 2002 (i believe it is) taco with the jshift case. he was able to do it. i also know that i could have done it on my 98 4runner as well. i believe on these trucks, the mod allows you to bypass the actuator switch. once again though, i could be completely wrong. i stopped caring when i decided i was going dual cases with the pass. drop. i just have to keep the man. hubs unlocked now or look in to twin sticks.

[BruceTS]

My bad, there's another 2low mod that disables the ADD actuator from engaging, so in reality it's going into 4WD but since the coupler doesn't engage, the front diff just spins. Not a true 2low like having dual cases or twin sticks.

[AxleIke]

Well, Blake, I think you were probably being a LITTLE over concerned on that one, but I agree, you should run as little as you can with those baby's locked in, as your CV angles aren't awesome.

Its not that they will fail tommorow, or probably not even next year, but they have that potential.

Anyway, yeah, xwhatever on the others, you really don't need to unlock that much. Really just when you first air down, and then when the day is done.