Well, last night after two days of scanning wiring diagrams, soldering, heat shrink, running to the store to pick up parts and a mess of wire I finally completed my custom E-locker wiring harness. I used a factory RR Diff Lock switch, ECU, short wiring harness with breather tube for the E-locker electric motor, switch (to replace the 4WD safety and act as an interlock), modified indicating light plus a ton of solder, wire, heat shrink and beer!
When all the connections were soldered and heat shrunk wrapped I had one real mess sitting on the workbench and was a bit worried. I stood back had another cold one and decided to go for the test run. I hooked everything up to a spare car battery. The E-locker electric motor was just in the vise for testing purposes and I hit the lock switch. To my delight my indication light flashed and the motor worked! I was not until I jumpered the limit switch that the indication light came in solid, as per original design. I activated the motor back and forth half a dozen times and just about started dancing for joy in the garage when everything worked! My buddy thought I had lost my mind after seeing the mess of wires but he was impressed when it all worked.

I will try and post pics when I get the home computer fixed. It just crashed last night.

Project summary/status:
1-Install an E-locker in my 99 Tacoma
2-Purchased an E-locked 96 4Runner rear end, drum to drum but the housing might be bent.
3-Phase 1: Make a wiring harness for the E-locker. Completed E-locker wiring harness and tested.
4-Phase 2: Re gear 3rd member. The gears are on their way.
5-Phase 3: Either modify the 4Runner housing (cut all 4 Runner parts off and weld on spring perches for the Taco or find a used Taco E-locked housing.

All I can say is that you guys rock! Your help definitely helped make this phase of the locker project successful. Thanks a million guys.


Cheers,
P

 

Great job! I hope I am next to be jumping around in my garage like a lunatic!

 

pierre,

did the download of the manuals off the TIS site (linked in the Maintenance section) help contribute to the successful install?

Heh heh

Good job

Bob

 

Hi again fellas.

Yes the FSM downloads did help but most of the schematics I have seen in various postings here were bang on as well. I ran into a problem with the downloaded FSMs, my cpu died 1 day ago with all that valuable info stuck on the hard drive!

Right now, I am in the process of uploading pics, under the E-locker project album:
http://community.webshots.com/user/p1michaud

Again this forum rocks...

Cheers,
P

 

I have my rig wired up for an E-locker, now I just need to find one!