Prerunner to 4X4 conversion, concluded

something to do with the lock up feature in 4lo not coming on or something. I read something about that somewhere

 

It’s both the lower gearing as well as the torque converter not locking and unlocking

 

True I guess. The torque converter doesn’t lock in 1st and 2nd gear.

 

No problem
Ive had the tcase installed for a year with the spacer No problems or leaks from what I’ve checked. (I didn’t finish the conversion until may-July last year)

 

Not bad considering whats involved to get that output shaft out. See below. He pulls the output shaft at 36:50. Everything before that, yeah - lot of work.
https://youtu.be/aXnSFhauHoU

 

Yea that was 6 yrs ago now, but still it was a good deal. I had planned to do the tear down myself but for $250 it didn’t seem worth the risk. At the time my truck only had 25k miles on it. All the used transmissions I could afford had over 100k miles on them. I think I spent about $800 total to convert the transmission. The rail housing was the priciest part. I put over 100k on the transmission after that before doing a manual swap.

 

Fascinating thread! The attention to detail with all the pics and gifs is great too

 

Have you looked into this any further? I'm wanting to do this swap but i'd much prefer to have a manual shifting option for the t-case instead of having to deal with the wiring. Looking at the gif here i don't see why the actuator couldn't be replaced with a shifter of some kind

 

Nope, I’m backlogged years on ideas lol