Let's see your FJ case swap

Hell yeah, thanks for that. Looks like anything close is still around $500, but I’m going to call the Bham place. Someone rigged up a cable shifter in place of the stock actuator so I’m kinda looking into that, too. Wish I wasn’t. Case swap seems easier somehow.

 

i got one locally off car-part.com for around $300 about 1.5 years ago

 

problem with making the electric shift case into a manual, you will have a constant leak as the shift rail since there really isnt a way to seal up it up with out the actuator being there

 

Yeah I’m seeing that now. Going to keep searching for another tcase. Sure wish there was a way to trick the computer though.

 

Picked up a tcase from a 2010 4runner for CAD$200, with 130,000 km from a wreckers, in Dec 2022. The unit wasn't pristine, but cleaned up ok. I beleive 5th gen 4runner manual tcases from automatics will wotk, in addition to FJ cases.

 

That’s a good deal. I can’t find anything under $500 so far, but am still looking.

 

I would t worry about mileage to much either. Most these things look pretty damn good on the inside once opened up.

 

Wow this is turning into more of a headache than just being expensive. None of the tcases I’ve asked about have had the damn shift lever. Haven’t seen any used ones and new is like $260…wtf…

 

That was an issue I was running into as well when looking for a friend which is why local place was the way to go.

you can always twin stick it in lieu of a factory shifter.

 

Just sucks. It’s basically a linear move from the Tacoma tcase in my mind and just a time and money suck. Was really hoping someone has tricked the factory tcase after a SAS haha

 

I thought I read on here that the 3rd gen 4Runner or 1st gen Tacoma Tcase shifters work in the FJ case as well.

 

Man it ain’t that serious lmao you’re spending how many thousands of dollars on a sas and this is a point of annoyance?

You could spin it into an (expensive) positive and do a northwest fab crawl box at the same time. Use the planetary gears from your stock case for the northwest box and put an fj case behind that.

 

I’m about 18k into it after a couple months. About 3k left to go. I’m a very budget oriented person so I don’t like to be blindsided regardless of the amount. My own fault for not researching it, just never crossed my mind. I also don’t want to invest more into the shitty tacoma drivetrain than I have to. I want parts that would switch to a buggy/bouncer chassis in the future and if I ever got a wild hair to throw something in the taco first it’d better be an LS/TH400/Atlas.

 

All you’d need to retain the Tacoma case is a jogging circuit on a cheap ass relay mounted board and wire up the lights directly to the dash. Something like this can be made to work on the stock case.

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So you’re thinking bypass any of the 4wd computer and just take control of the tcase actuator directly? I don’t care about dash lights, but do need some sort of indication of hi/lo I guess. I need to study what the actuator does inside the tcase and get a better understanding. I’d appreciate any more input you can add.

 

this was my reply to Pdugan when he was asking

option 1, gets rid off all the stupid electronics that can fail.
option 2, is the easiest and cheapest, but you have electronics that can fail.

now another option
option 3, do what @6 gearT444E said and figure a way out and still have electronics that can fail.

 

i gott a shifter from the same place i got my tcase and i think it was like 90 bucks.

 

yes just unplug it and tie dash lights to the cluster directly. Wire up a relay to reverse polarity between these two connections and jog them until you get the dash indicator lights.

 

I sold my actuator, but that’s no problem to buy another of course. You’re saying just plug it in, zip tie it up somewhere and everything will function as before?

 

yep. the hsift arm will move into its position and everything will be happy.

just make sure its out of the way and doesnt hit anything

When wyatt from RST first SASd his Tacoma before putting the fj case in, that's what he did