Grey wire mod

this mod will let me use the locker in 2wd 4hi and 4 lo insted of just 4lo i have a 2003 trd 4x4 it worked on my truck and i am showing you how i did it dont blame me if you screw something up this is the gray wire mod i have seen it on ther sites but i decided to put my truck on the line and try it on my truck sorry for the spelling
start with taking off a couple trim peices 4 screws and a little tug gets them off


now locate the 4wd computer it stands out

 

there is a plug in the bottom unplug it and locate the gray wire i have heard on some trucks the color is diff


now cut the gray wire about 6in from the connector and attach a peice of wire i used some red wire i had attach it to the part coming from the connector and then tape it up to make sure it doesnt come lose also tape the other end of the wire not being used anymore

now i ran the red wire to a ground screw that was already there

and thats it test it before you put every thing back together

 

notice the 4wd light is not on but the locker light is on


now put everthing back together and go find some mud to try it out it took me about 30 mins to do it

 

hey..whats that smell?..you smell smoke? Just joking.Thanks for the tip and pictures,I read it could be done,but it didn`t show how.

 

if anyone else has done this before and i missed something or should have done something diff let me know

 

Hey thanks for the posted I went out and did this mod today. Very very easy but i was wondering about the rear locker indicater light on the dash

when the locker is engaged does the light stay on or does it flash?

thanks

 

mine stays on but i have to drive back and forth a couple of feet you should be able to hear it turning on

 

Love the seat covers!

 

thanks they were an ebay find

 

Well I dont know what is going on
I did my gray wire mod just like u did greenbean i have an 01 taco 4 door and when i started driving down the road i realized that it had totally diffrent shift points and it would not go into over drive it was running and shifting like it does in 4H so idk what is going on
I hooked the gray wire back up so i could atleast drive it hopefully someone else has had this problem before and can help me.

Thank

 

In some rare cases, there is a different color wire used in place of the grey wire. The best way to identify the correct wire is to locate prong number 8. This wire is in the bottom middle of the plug, between a green/yellow wire and a white/black wire did you get the rite wire is it driving better since you hooked the wire back up

 

Ya it is driving fine now that i hooked that wire back up lol thats werid because I double checked the color and the location but I guess I missed something haha

thanks

 

Has anybody talked to Toyota and asked why this is not available from factory? maybe there are some under lying circumstances, perhaps doom is waiting around the corner !

 

i have others tell me about this mod and no prob i have no probs with mine you can use the locker at any speed with the prerunner so why not the 4x4
stucks did you hook your wire to the peice coming from the plug and not the one that runs up to the dash was it a good ground did you ever get the light to stay on instedd of just blink

 

http://www.4x4wire.com/toyota/minutemods/greywire_mod/gwm_05.jpg
http://www.customtacos.com/tech/index.php?article=10
http://www.offroaders.com/info/tech-corner/reading/Toyota_Tacoma_locker.htm
all of the sites say the same thing i dont know what happened with yours

 

This mod has been in-place on my 01 for about 6 year, without any trouble.


From the pictures it looks like GB just stripped the wire and wrapped it around the screw, IMO a crimp type connector should be used.

On my 01 I've found this, the power-outlet, and 2lo mods to be ultra-cheap and very useful, and Toyota should have built the trucks this way.

Keep up the mods.

 

thanks for backing me up on this one steves i should have use3d a crimp type but i was in such a herry to try it i will take it back apart this weekend and do it rite

 

This is probably a crazy thought but the screw I grounded it out on had another wire grounded to it maybe the gray wire what shorting something out or something along theses lines lol ya i know way out there

hopefully i will have time this weekend to mess with it somemore

thanks for the help

 

O shit im going to look really really stupid but i grounded the wrong end of the wire LOL i grounded the end of the wire that goes out to the truck i didnt ground the end of the wire that goes into the computer haha

that should fix it

 

glad you figured it out and it didnt mess anything up