nerofiend

I have an 87 4runner manual 5 speed 4cyl that im doing a bunch of stuff to. (Blazeland IFS long travel, All Pro Rear lift kit, ect, ect) But when i took it to the trails i noticed that it would not stay in 4 low. Every other gear seems just fine and holds great, its just 4 Low on the gearbox that pops out. If i hold it in place it works just fine untill i let go and it pops out lol.

I did get a heavy duty shift spring from Marlin Crawler hoping that it is the issue but my problem is that i have ZERO idea on where these springs go? I did some searching and only can find one reference to it that says to look on the passenger side of the gearbox for a metal plate with 3 allen screws in it but so far i can find nothing that looks like that. But it did not say whether i should be looking on top, bottom, or sides of the gearbox.

I figure since i have the springs i may as well install them, if they work great, if not ill move on, but i would like to know where they go lol.

Anyone ever installed these before that has an idea?

MudHippy

HD shift spring installation instructions(for t-case H-L shift rail, info partially extracted from the Marlin Crawler twin stick installation page, with some slight wording modification for clarity's sake).

nerofiend

Yep that seems to be the one. They recommended getting 2 springs for my setup does that tell me that there is another one on the other side as well? Kinda looks like there might be.

Thanks for the help

MudHippy

Yes.

1 for the High-Low shift rail
1 for the 2WD-4WD shift rail