Let's see your FJ case swap

make sure the shift boot is not putting any pressure on the stick as well as the hole in the body not interfering. Under load things can shift and cause interference

 

I don't have a boot on it right now, and the hole in the floor is nowhere near the shifter. I guess I'll see if the stiffer detent spring fixes it, and if not, I'll just pull the case out again!

 

mine wouldn't pop out except when i was going downhill on a trail that i remember. worked fine other wise. scared the hell outta me when it happened cuz i didn't expect to just be in neutral all of a sudden

 

Ok. Yeah then likely the double spring will help. Also you can pop the shifter off to see if the shift rails are worn where the detent balls hold the rail in place. They should look sort of like a “v” shape. I put the extra spring in when I first did the swap and haven’t seen it happen.

 

Yeah it only pops out when it's de-accelerating in gear. So I'll throw a heavy duty spring in there and if that doesn't fix i

Nice! I'll do that. Not sure what's going on, today it doesn't fall out of gear anymore but it won't shift into 4wd.
I'll just pull the case again and check it out. If the shift rods are contacting the trans tunnel I'd rather fix it now, rather than find out in a few hundred miles that putting pressure on the shift rods cause catastrophic failures.

 

Does anyone have an FJ tcase laying around that they can measure the diameter of the shift rods?

 

Can measure for you tonight.

 

Hell yeah, thank you.

 

Gimme a min and I can do it now

 

This what u want?

 

That's perfect, thank you! Building a template to help clearance the trans in the 3g. Hopefully it'll take a bit of the guesswork out.

 

Anyone have a shifter for sale?

 

Cant find a usdd one for the life of me

 

Have you tried:

https://www.car-part.com/mobile/index.htm

I had one lined up fairly local through there before one came up from a member closer to me.

 

I looked everywhere in a 3 hour radius can't fucking find one they all took them off

 

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/...0pYWm_Eunnqe4EKuMIzTPRCQBPc9sMxhoCbocQAvD_BwE

This should work and is 1/3 the cost of a toyota one.

 

how do i ground those wires and whats that other thing?

 

The question mark is the interior light switch/dimmer or a rheostat

 

they are already connected to ground through the stock harness, if your truck came as a prerunner you just tie other end of the switch to the chassis somewhere. That “other thing” is the variable ground for the dimmer rheostat

 

Going back thru my YouTube channel and damn it’s been 7 years since I made this video, but I have since switched out the ADD for a full time front differential tube from the FJ cruiser.