Donuts are on me!!

Following a through read of the locker hack instructions on FJ Cruiser World I have now enabled my trucks to do DONUTS!!!!! And does she do them sweet!!

Although Regreb's instructions were clear enough for me to complete the hack I thought I'd share a few photos of the steps to help others along the way to here goes:

Step 1: Remove the drivers side sill trim - it is straight forward, jsust wiggle and pull to get it off, no screws, just clips:



Step 2: Remove the foot rest (I'm doing this in an automatic so not sure how it looks in a manual). Again, just grab it and pull. Its only cliped on.



Step 3: Next step is to take the side panel off the drivers foot well, because behind there is all the electrical gizmotry. This is held on by on screw/knob which can be undone by hand. Then pull the side panel off.



Step 4: With all the panels now removed you should be to get your head right down in the foot well and look up the inside of the panels you have just removed. You should see loads of wires and a few blue boxes into which the wires are connected. The one you are looking for is right up at the top and is about the size of a cigarette packet. Reach up inside and unscrew this blue box from the metalwork.



Step 5: Take a look at the blue box and you will see that the wires go into the bottom of the blue box via a white clip. Un-clip that and the box should be completely free now. Take it out and put it somewhere safe.

Step 6: This is an extra step we added to Regreb's method. We prepared a short length of wire with a femal wire splice connector at one end and a loop at the other. This will later become the earth. Screw the blue box back in place but with the loop end of the new earthwire you have made looped on to the screw holding the blue box on to the metalworks.



Step 7: Moving now to the plastic clip you removed from the blue box. Take a close look and you will see a white cable with a blue stripe running along it. It will be connected to pin number 8 on the white connector. This is the one you need to cut. As Regreb says, look plenty of times and be sure you have the right one before cutting. Cut it as far back along the wire as you can, away from the clip end. Cut the wire and now connect a male wire splice connector to both ends of the now cut wire.



Step 8. Take the end of the white/blue wire leading out of the white connector and clip this on to the earth wire you connected to the screw on the blue box in step 6. This has now earthed the wire as per regreb's original instructions.



And that's it, job done. You can put everything back together, reversing Steps 3 to 1 and go out donutting!! Just get to your favourate donut place. Leave it in 2WD, hit the Rear Diff Lock button and floor it!!!

Thanks to Regreb for your original post, and Richard for your help putting it all in to action and look forward to out donutting you tomorrow in the desert!!

YBOD.

P.S. In case you were wondering, the reason we put a mae splice connector on both ends of the white/blue wire when we cut it was so that in the future, if i want to change the wiring back to the original arrangement all I need do is disconnect the white/blue wire from the earth and plug it back into the other part of hte white blue and hey presto you are restored to factory default.