sweet mod! I got one out of a sporttrac... yeah it had the rear wiper control, but I took off the switch and put a 12V outlet in it... then the lower switch was retrofitted with another fog light switch... still havent wired it up though...
Electric to Manual T-Case Swap Wiring
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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.
A couple of seconds with the continuity setting on the multimeter and I found out the switch on the t case just grounds out either the 4 low wire of the 4 high wire depending on what gear its in.
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.)
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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.
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Finding a bezel with no 4x4 switch was harder than I thought it would be. Exploders have the rear wiper switch, and there are not very many 95+ 2wd Rangers in the JY. I am going to keep looking for one with the dual cig lighters.
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A couple of seconds with the continuity setting on the multimeter and I found out the switch on the t case just grounds out either the 4 low wire of the 4 high wire depending on what gear its in.
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.
Finding a bezel with no 4x4 switch was harder than I thought it would be. Exploders have the rear wiper switch, and there are not very many 95+ 2wd Rangers in the JY. I am going to keep looking for one with the dual cig lighters.
