I've spent the past few nights helping a friend swap engines and transmissions out of one FJ60 and put them in another. The odd part came about when the doner vehicle came missing a control arm on the transfer case. When we put everything back into the keeper vehicle and noticed what the control arm was meant to do. The standard shifting options are:
2H
|
4H--N--4L
With the arm removed, it then becomes
2H--?--2L
| ? |
4H--N--4L
We tested it out quite a bit before bolting everything back up and it all seemed fine. So we buttonedit all back up and took it for a test drive. Sure enough, it's a new valid position from everything that we can tell. The only advantage I guess that it gives is that you can stay in two wheel drive and take advantage of the lower gearing without engaging the front drivline. I haven't checked if there is a new neutral between 2H and 2L, or if you can take that path to 4L, but wouldn't be surprised if you could.
So now the questions. ???
Has anyone ever heard of this?
Is there a problem with doing this?
My friend said he had heard of someone doing this on a 40, can someone confirm?
Do any of you have this "feature" on your rig?
Thanks
2H
|
4H--N--4L
With the arm removed, it then becomes
2H--?--2L
| ? |
4H--N--4L
We tested it out quite a bit before bolting everything back up and it all seemed fine. So we buttonedit all back up and took it for a test drive. Sure enough, it's a new valid position from everything that we can tell. The only advantage I guess that it gives is that you can stay in two wheel drive and take advantage of the lower gearing without engaging the front drivline. I haven't checked if there is a new neutral between 2H and 2L, or if you can take that path to 4L, but wouldn't be surprised if you could.
So now the questions. ???
Has anyone ever heard of this?
Is there a problem with doing this?
My friend said he had heard of someone doing this on a 40, can someone confirm?
Do any of you have this "feature" on your rig?
Thanks