I dropped off my FJ Cruiser a few weeks ago with Jim at Inchworm to have it slowed down a little... Jim wanted to do some testing/prototyping on an FJC with his new gear driven tcase and adapters and I wanted lower gears. I had their new driver side drop geared transfer case (a.k.a. Lefty) along with a crawl box installed. The front reduction box has 2.28:1 gears and the tcase has 5:1 gears. The AT FJC's stock crawl ratio is 33:1, with the Inchworm setup I am now at 168:1. Also installed are a set of triple sticks that come up through the floor in the original tcase lever position, so no cutting was necessary. Jim also did a test fit of just the geared transfer case and it will install without modifying the gas tank or drive lines. The geared tcase is a great solution for folks that want to run lower gears, but don't want/need double tcases.

And lastly, but certainly not least, Jim and him team are great to work with... I am very pleased with my experience and will do more business with them in the future.

Here are a few pictures of the setup as it was being installed. I will post more information and pictures once I get my FJC back this weekend.

Gear driven transfer case plus the reduction box and adapters:


In the picture below you can see the FJC exhaust cross-over pipe and how flat it comes from the factory. I will be moving the cross-over pipe now that I have more room.


The belly of my FJC is now just about completely flat. Remove the factory cross-member and re-route the exhaust cross-over pipe and it will be flat:


The gas tank in the FJC's is very close to the stock tcase and must be shortened to install double cases. A plastic welding company was able to shorten the gas tank by 3". The 3" is equates to 1 gallon less capacity, which to me is worth it for the lower gears.

Chopped gas tank:



Clearance between tcase and gas tank after install:

 

awesome!!! simply awesome!

 

Yes, the tripple shifters really are the way to go IMO on the dual set ups. Besides not having to cut, they look fantastic.

 

Wow, everything's so clean!

 

Very nice Sol!
Looking forward to the end results, and the sticks.

 

Very cool. How about a pict of the 3x shifters?

 

I should have my FJC back this weekend. I will take more pictures of the shifters and cases and post them up.