Electric to Manual T case ?

[PlumCrazy]

I tried searching it, but came up empty.

I will have 1354m in hands this weekend and plan to put in my truck when I put the tranny back in. But I have a few ?'s about the wiring.

A) How to I make the 4x4 lights stop blinking since there is no shift motor?

B) How do I make the indicator lights work with the manual case?

-plumcrazy

 

[Downey]

its custom i could never get a straight answer.

 

[Greg and Drew]

Best solution might be to take that little piece of the dash that has all the buttons and indicators and swap it for a manual? Otherwise maybe just unplug it? Not sure how much they changed 92-94 but the 92 apparently had all the wiring in place for one way or the other? We bought a truck that had a manual 1354 case swapped over to an electric 1350 near as I can figure. Tragic.

 

[PlumCrazy]

Mine is a 95, the 4x4 stuff is all over the place.

-plumcrazy

 

[Natedog]

I would get the wiring diagram and chase all the wires down. Prolly end up unplugging the electric push-button junk (I'd rip all the wiring out too ) and then add/splice a few wires using the 4x4 light switch on the manual t-case to activate your dash 4x4 lights. 1995...prolly not the most fun job...but do-able.

 

[AllanD]

You do want to replace the piece of dash panel where the 3electronic 4x4 control
is now and replace it with one from a manual shift (or 2wd truck for that matter)

Besides where the 4x4 control is now makes a damned nice place to
put an oil pressure guage...


As for the 4x4 indicator lights your dash facia has the 4x4 and 4Lo indicator positions, you just need to install light bulbs.

As for makign the lights work?

Look on your firewall near the big round firewall connector, in that
general area there will be a small two conductor connector, there will be a plain light blue wire and a light blue wire with a black stripe.

IF you can find ANY gen2 4x4 truck with a manual T-case the wire that runs to the MANUAL T-case is a seperate two wire "harness" that runs to the t-case position indicator switch and connects to that plug near the firewall connector.

That's all you generally need... just plug it in at both ends and tie it to
other wiring to keep it from getting tangled in the driveshaft...


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[PlumCrazy]

Its a 95, with the twist style 4x4 switch. The indicator lights are already in the cluster, they blink because no shift motor or switch is being detected. I got the chunk of "harness" the plugs into the tcase, I will check the fendliner/fire wall area for an extra plug, but I am pretty sure 95+ Rangers aren't going to be that simple.

And as for as a good place for an oil press gauge goes, I thnk my pillar pod will be perfect

-plumcrazy

 

[PlumCrazy]

I may just remove the bulbs, after all I dont have indicator lights to tell me what gear my tranmission is in.lol I am pretty sure I can tell when its in low, and I can always grab a front axle shaft and make sure it spins to check for 2 Hi if I am uncertian

-plumcrazy

 

[Fx4wannabe01]

If you just unplug the shift motor, your lights flash like crazy? weird. Learn something new every day. Mine doesn't do that. They just act like it's in 2wd. Of course I've got a different wiring system which may have something to do with that.

On mine, the case has a gear position switch. All I gotta do is run wires from that switch up to the gauges and it's all good to go and functioning properly. Again, no clue if any of this helps you and your truck of that ventige.

 

[Andres629]

Subscribed. Have this in the works too, want to see if I can get the lights to work also.

 

[Fx4wannabe01]

OP has a different dash than you and different switch setup. What Allan said applies to you.

 

[Andres629]

Precisely why I subscribed, so now I don't have to go searching!

 

[PlumCrazy]

I put my manual t case in and got the console/shifter issue all taken care of a couple of weeks ago. So I decided to get the indicator lights working.

The switch on the t case just grounds out either the 4 low wire of the 4 high wire.

I looked at the 4x4 system wiring diagram and found out the blue/black wire going into the GEM (located just to the left of the radio) is the 4 lo indicator light ground, and the solid gray id the 4 hi ground. (there are two gray wires going into the GEM, its the lower one on the plug.)

So all I had to do was connect the two wires from the tcase to the two indicator light ground wires coming from the cluster.

This was a lot harder to find than I thought. Exploders have the rear wiper switch, and there are not very many 95+ 2wd Rangers in the JY.

 

[Original_Ranger84]

Kick ass! I just put a manual in my truck and needed to figure out how it hooked up. now I know! Now I just need to get the front driveshaft and shifter boots figured out.