Locker Anytime Mod for Dummies 2005+

I need help, forgive me if I’m stupid but
Im totally stuck . Truck is 2005 tacoma from America 4.0 .

My first issue was that my plug was not the same one you showed.... second issue was that rather then my pins going 1 2 5 6 they went 6 5 2 1 all my stuff was a mirror image of what you show ... I’m absolutely stupid or my trucks a lemon .... anyways I used the same colours you used I put them in the same place on the relay but now my 4x4 lights lockers lights and abs lights are all on , I cant engage 4x4 or the locker the only thing I can do is unplug the relay and then I’m stuck in 2 wheel drive , the one thing that is working is when I hit the locker button the relay clicks and it’s light turns green .... please help this noob!

 

I've been drinking.
A friend in later posted had the same issue.
I will try 4 you in the morning hopefully to tag and post you

6 speed?

 

I think you are close and maybe it's just a cross up on the wires. The drawing shows the front of the plug, but I can now see how that could be confusing. Your plug looks just like mine. I've inset a shot of mine next to yours.



Here's a drawing from the wire side of the plug


Hopefully this is a little clearer. The front and back of the plug are mirror images. Check that the correct wires are going to the right places and let us know what happens.

 

Finally got around to doing it to my 07 last week. I made my “Y” and ground cable the day before and got it done fairly quick after work one day. Works awesome! Thanks again for the write up and relay.

Took a few pictures


I did the tests like the how-to said, but I wanted to make sure lol

 

Ok ok ok I messed around a little more replaced my 4x4 fuse all is good but burnt out the locker ....

Do you figure there’s any chance my grey wire mod caused the locker to overheat or did I do somthing wrong rebuilding the locker actuator ? My 4x4 hi and low work since installing locker mod and putting new fuse in ...so Im Leaning towards I messed somthing up with rebuilding and installing the actuator wrong

 

Dang, that looks ugly. Isn't the gray wire mod a 1st gen thing? I know there was another 2nd gen mod that tricked the truck into thinking it was in 4 low all the time. I never looked at mixing the two.

 

I did the locker mod with relay just referred to it as grey wire

 

I'm hoping someone else can jump in here. It's hard to tell from the picture, but it looks like the wiring to the relay might be wrong. Double check that the correct wires were cut and plugged into the right pins on the relay.

 

1 green / black 2 Y cable
3 y cable 4 pink
5 big green 6 big blue
7 red / black 8 ground

 

I did just swap 7 and 8 I wonder if having that backwards could have fried the locker motor

 

It could have since it wasn’t grounded correctly. Have you tried cleaning up the copper wire on there, put it back in, and checked the fuses?

“Ground (if you are using a diode equipped relay it's important that 7 and 8 are connected correctly. If you do it backwards fuse ig1 no.2 will blow.)”

 

Well what happened the first time was I had it done the correct way it tells you then it blew the fuse anyways so I switched it to be the other way lol

 

I shouldn’t have done 2 jobs at the same time makes things to confusing to find the problem lol

 

The motors winding
Is toast it broke in a couple
Places going to order a new actuator today

 

Damn that sucks!

 

Ok I don’t get it everything did work but I killed my locker new one just arrived I doubled checked all connections to relay looked good grounds connected started truck and bam I had abs light on e break light on , my power windows won’t do anything my heaters won’t work , relay does not light up green when I hit locker button or engage 4x4 locker doesn’t work 4x4 does I am so confused checked fuses they all are good

 

Jeez that’s not good. I can’t even attempt to look at schematics until Monday at the earliest.

Almost seems like something isn’t plugged in.
I know you said you checked connections, but are any of your female connectors going onto the relay touching by any chance?

When I was hooking mine up, the connectors were fitting loose onto the relay and a few were touching, but I tightened the connectors with pliers before plugging the main pigtail back in

 

Going to be a late night now I did use pliers on them before I will try again and install a new vampire

 

Ok I tightened all ends even taped them so there’s no chance of contact still , no green light in relay, no locker light, no power windows or heat I am so confused but 4x4 does work, abs and e break lights are on ..