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Electric to Manual T-Case Swap Wiring
« on: November 30, 2009, 11:03:17 PM »
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.)


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.
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Re: Electric to Manual T-Case Swap Wiring
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2009, 11:17:47 PM »
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...
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Re: Electric to Manual T-Case Swap Wiring
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2009, 12:29:42 AM »
i wanted one w/o a fog switch, since I have switch panel for my lights.
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Re: Electric to Manual T-Case Swap Wiring
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2009, 02:47:40 AM »
thats another good write up man this kid sorry  this young ranger man is great to have around
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Re: Electric to Manual T-Case Swap Wiring
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2010, 12:00:21 AM »
stickyd this, another thread to good to get lost.

im gonna try this soon, dont like not having a 4x4 light haha
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Re: Electric to Manual T-Case Swap Wiring
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2010, 12:27:17 AM »
i have to do this i keep forgeting

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Re: Electric to Manual T-Case Swap Wiring
« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2010, 12:28:16 PM »
my ranger has the dual cig lighters what are you looking for one for?
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Re: Electric to Manual T-Case Swap Wiring
« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2010, 01:52:28 PM »
The radio bezels with no rear wiper, foglight, or 4x4 switches are kinda hard to find, but I ended up finding another one with dual cig lighters.

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