05-15 2wd to 4wd conversion guide (for dummies)

Hell yeah dude! Looks sick! Ready to buy some metal to finish the skids, rock sliders and maybe some extrusion for the roof rack! Happy fiestas fellas!

 

Thanks for the great info! Its long over due for my access cab and i wanna get into more places. Appreciate the time you put into the post and including pics.
Let the part shopping begin!

 

Sorry I actually sold it to @Longtech like 2 months ago.

 

Thanks i did see that after i sent the message! Appreciate the message bk ! The hunt continues

 

Feel free to reach out if you get hung up on something, tons of people here willing to help!

 

I appreciate the community on these forums. Ive skimmed through so many threads looking for new ideas and troubleshooting. As i get my parts and attend Youtube collage ill be sure to reach out.
Thanks

 

Same here fellas!

 

Now ill have to start my owe thread! Just scratched the itch and picked up a FJ case, Carrier assembly, and front drive shaft!!!
ECGS will have more business
Still hunting for Transmission and rear drive shaft

 

Modify your original rear shaft and avoid drama. Cheers dude!

 

Agreed. I bought a 4x4 shaft and went through all that pain before I just modified my original. Just be sure to modify it correctly, I got a slip yoke put on the front portion instead of the rear. Idk why I’m like this

it’s been working ok tho despite the mistake lol

 

Good to know, Ill start looking around town for a drive line shop.

 

By chance do you have a pic of how you fixed/re route your DS exhaust after the cat?

 

All I got

 

That will work!

 

Post #84 of this thread.

 

Very helpful as well! Did an oil change over the weekend and was trying to envision all the new parts and mount location.

 

Sweet post man super helpful for me! I’m doing the same thing for my truck right now, and am almost done, but my trannys shifting super hard. Any ideas on what it could be? I check the fluid level about 3 times and it’s good. Almost 100% sure all the electronics are plugged in but I’ll triple check. Junkyard told me if somethings wrong with the tranny they’ll swap it out so I’m not too worried but did anything like this happen to any of you guys? Probably just going to have a professional look at it on Monday to possibly clear some codes if there are any, but just really would suck if I gotta drop the trans and replace it again.

 

I don’t know if you have seen this in the past but this is the right procedure to check fluid amount, I had some shudder issues, after a cycle and some shudder fix my transmission runs like new, I have put this thing to the test and runs like a dream.

 

Btw, welcome to the 4x4 family.

 

I was getting shudder really bad after a while even after flushes and instant shudder fix additive. The shudder would not be present if I shifted into the 4 position and accelerated slowly from a stop so that confirmed that the problem was the flex lockup in the converter. I replaced it with a rebuilt one from Florida Torque Converters part# 89-90 for V6 models with A750e/f. Refilled with Valvoline MaxLife Full synthetic trans fluid and havent had a single shudder since. My recommendation for anyone doing the conversion is to go ahead and put a new converter in the tranny while it's out. It'll save you the headaches of having to drop the tranny again in the future.