Electric Lockers

[James W]

Spured on by Mikes's recent commnets about his very positive report on a front locker, I'm re-visting my project (a.k.a. Pipe dream) for a diff locker.

Doing some googling I came accross an electric locker used on the toyota 4 runner where some people are fitting them to other things with minor diff housing mods... Grinding and welding.

See here;
www.yotatech.com/showthread.php?t=64005

Where it seems a 4.56 diff (same as mine) can be found in the toyota 4 cyl 4Runner.

Has anyone gone down this road to see if it will fit in our Isuzus?

Can anyone offer shaft diameter and spline count for Isuzu's and the 4Runner? Is the 4Runner found in NZ or called somethign differant? i.e. is this a pipe dream or a posibility?

Anyone got a souce of 4Runner diffs? Toyota Part number 41110-3D010?

[geeves]

4 runner was available new here but moost are v6 The surf is the import version of the same beast but most are 2.4 diesel Cant help on the ratios but could be a cheap answer.

[geeves]

Interesting artical. It seems like theres also 4.3 ratio which matches the bighorn. Let us know how it goes. Anouther thought would be swap the whole diff. That also fixes the handbrake but would need cert

[Yarno]

I think swaping the whole diff would be the only way, those guys are modifying toyota diffs to fit the toyota e-locker and they have the right splines. Isuzu rear - 26 spline Toyota 8" - 30 spline

[geeves]

The toyota and isuzu share the same u joint so theres only suspension to worry about. I think some of them were coil so it becomes a very usefull project but a lot of time on the grinder