Okay so I was fishing around for info on the "poor man's" vacuum solenoid replacement for the FJ62's 4WD solenoids (my solenoid for disengaging 4WD went out completely), and I saw a post on Pirate that mentioned that an electrical switch in the tcase that activates the "engage" solenoid to shift it into 4WD when you use the manual shifter to put it into 4lo. Is this true? It makes sense, given that IIRC (correct me if I'm wrong) the FJ60's tcase shifter's fore/aft is for Hi/Lo and the left/right is for 2WD/4WD.
I'm asking because if this is correct, I'd have to rethink converting from solenoids to a manual switch in the cab. Now if it works the way I'm thinking, then a side effect of installing the manual switch would mean you'd have to remember to activate 4WD with that when you used the shifter to shift into low range. Basically this would give you the 2Lo option too if you left the switch in 2WD and shifted to low range with the shifter...
I'm asking because if this is correct, I'd have to rethink converting from solenoids to a manual switch in the cab. Now if it works the way I'm thinking, then a side effect of installing the manual switch would mean you'd have to remember to activate 4WD with that when you used the shifter to shift into low range. Basically this would give you the 2Lo option too if you left the switch in 2WD and shifted to low range with the shifter...