Swapping ADD to Manual hubs?

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04-08-2011, 10:04 AM

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04-08-2011, 11:26 AM

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awesome. That's exactly what I was wanting to do. Seems so ridiculous to be turning all that stuff on the pavement. Thanks!

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04-10-2011, 04:50 PM

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is this info true on a 03 taco as well... I always thought I had to swap the shafts or some crap like that???

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04-10-2011, 04:52 PM

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is this info true on a 03 taco as well... I always thought I had to swap the shafts or some crap like that???

Yep, more work involved on the Tacoma pickups and 3rd gen 4Runners. Search for some write-ups.

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04-10-2011, 05:06 PM

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yeah thats what i thougt, I decided it wasn't worth it long ago but than ran across this and just wanted to make sure...

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Just swap the hubs and you can leave the rest of the ADD stuff as-is. The hose clamp mod. is to lock the ADD actuator full time. But if you are having no issues with the ADD and simply want to unlock the hubs for most of the time, manual hubs will do that. Then, when you may want to use 4WD, lock the hubs, then your normal shift-on-the-fly 4WD mode will work just like it does now.

Can I still use 4lo though? I want 2wd, 4lo and 4hi and I want to do the conversion. But was wondering if I'd lose 4lo by doing it.

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07-26-2018, 03:07 PM

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Sure, no problem there. In fact you can even have a bonus gear. With the hubs unlocked and the case in 4L to you have 2L, lock the hubs and you have 4L. With the stock ADD setup, it's like you have permanently locked front hubs (i.e. the drive flanges). If you swap to manual hubs and leave them locked all the time, you've made no change in the system, it works exactly the same as before.

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