FJBen
SILVER Star
I have the classic flashing light on my rear locker of my 93. Front works beautifully. I wasn't hearing a "click" like I was with the front so I thought it may be the 4WD locker ECU.
Last night I put new rear brakes on mine, and pulled off the shield for the locker, I tried the battery test but my setup was less than ideal so who knows if I even hit the right wires with the juice or if the battery was good enough. I lightly tapped the actuator as well with a rubber mallet as I've heard it gets stuck.
Since we bought the new 80, I swapped my 4WD ECU into hers over lunch. Again both of her lockers worked and you could hear two clicks. So by that logic, the ECU is good.
After that I found a dirt parking lot and drove circles and figure 8's for a few minutes...no locking of the rear, i kept trying to engage/disengage while turning but no bueno. maybe I need to do it for like 20 minutes??? lol
This leads me to two things:
A: Faulty wiring somewhere in the locker wiring
B: funk in the actuator
I'm going to open it up a little tonight and check as I've searched on 80scool and here and found a few people have just opened it up, and also cleaned the connector and gotten good results.
In this pic, what bad things will happen if I open up the 3 bolted cover marked "41460"? can I visually inspect things or is crap gonna shoot all over the garage floor? lol? thanks
Last night I put new rear brakes on mine, and pulled off the shield for the locker, I tried the battery test but my setup was less than ideal so who knows if I even hit the right wires with the juice or if the battery was good enough. I lightly tapped the actuator as well with a rubber mallet as I've heard it gets stuck.
Since we bought the new 80, I swapped my 4WD ECU into hers over lunch. Again both of her lockers worked and you could hear two clicks. So by that logic, the ECU is good.
After that I found a dirt parking lot and drove circles and figure 8's for a few minutes...no locking of the rear, i kept trying to engage/disengage while turning but no bueno. maybe I need to do it for like 20 minutes??? lol
This leads me to two things:
A: Faulty wiring somewhere in the locker wiring
B: funk in the actuator
I'm going to open it up a little tonight and check as I've searched on 80scool and here and found a few people have just opened it up, and also cleaned the connector and gotten good results.
In this pic, what bad things will happen if I open up the 3 bolted cover marked "41460"? can I visually inspect things or is crap gonna shoot all over the garage floor? lol? thanks