TRD E-Locker Capabilities??

What's the bottom look like?? Anyone did a conversion from limited slip to lockING or seen it done?

 

There is supposed to be a sticker on your door, plus the owners manual...




For safety reasons, the locker is to get you unstuck or to get you up or over an obstacle. It is engaged at a stop or barely rolling. Yes it will work/ stay locked at any speed, but TOYOTA says NOT to drive faster than 5 MPH. The reason is that a locked rear makes steering more difficult, and Toyota doesn't need a bunch of stupid people suing them because they weren't warned, and drove off a cliff or into a tree because the truck doesn't turn as quickly when locked.

The 4WD locker only works in LOW RANGE, so getting faster than 30 mph isn't common!

If you all keep racing with your rear locked, and wreck your trucks, it won't be long before that locker is gone and TRAC and A-TRAC will be all that's available, since they do not affect steering.

 

Wow

 

Do any of you know if all generation one TRD Offroad trucks have the Limited Slip Differential? I have a 2001 2wd pre runner SR5, i don't have a button to control the rear locker so i assume that it is a LSD. I got stuck in the mud this week, one of my tires was in a bad rut and never did spin once we got stuck. The driver's side rear tire spun and spun, but the passenger's side rear tire never moved once it lost traction. I was thinking it would have engaged the Limited Slip Differential at some point and gotten both tires to spin, but it sure didn't. Any words of wisdom?

 

No, they all are OPEN differentials, as are all of today's Tacomas. Only the 2005-2008 TRD SPORT Tacomas had mechanical limited slip. Since then, we all have electronic limited slip.

You are describing an open differential (the one tire in the air spins and the one with good traction does nothing).

Limited slip would apply resistance (brake pressure) to the free spinning tire so some power would apply to the good traction tire to move you ahead.

A locking differential would lock both tires together and no spin at all, both would turn equally.

 

It may have been a special order option, sure.

What does "one tire fire" mean?

'Limited' means only so much slip is allowed before the slip is stopped. Slip = spin.

 

This is why I was asking. I thought all V6 trd tacomas had the button to lock the rear differential, but my tacoma does not have that, and it does not appear that it has a LSD to me either. Did the generation one TRD trucks not all come with either a rear locker or a LSD?

What year TRD offroad trucks did definitely come with a rear locker? and was this only in 4 wheel drive? Sorry for all the questions, i'm pretty confused

 

I have a 2005 4L trd off road. As far as I thought, only the manual trans OR comes with the locker

 

I still get confused.
So do a lot of dealers going by ads.

Is making the E-locker work a matter of hooking up juice and a switch on non-E-Locker trucks or is this a different differential?

 

Thank you RL.

 

Yes great info RL

 

Rock lobster you suck

 

The First Gen TRD was an Off Road. In 2005 they invented and added the Sport TRD, which did not have a locker. Only Off Road TRDs have a rear locker.

 

So mean.

 

RR locker ftw

 

I just read that if your e-locker actuator fails in the field, you can manually engage and disengage the locker. How do you do this? Would the actuator need to be pulled off? Would a special tool be needed to actuate it?