1979 LANDCRUISER HELP

EDDY · Post by **EDDY** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 11:14 am

hi every one i have myself a 1979 landcruiser bj40 and in it it has electric hubs that have shit out and now my 4wd dosnt work i want to no if i can take the electric hubs out and put manual ones in with out changing the front axle?
and will i have to put in a new transfer case

wopass · Post by **wopass** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 7:09 pm

heya mate

never knew any of the 40 series came out with lekky hubs

part them off and pop some AISIN free wheeling hubs on, piss easy and no you dont have to change the axle :wink:

oldblue · Post by **oldblue** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:10 am

I didn't know that electric hubs can out before 1990, only seen them on 70series, you learn something new every day

If its the carbon brush's that are knacked, I can convert the hubs over to a manual type.useing your own hubs.

EDDY · Post by **EDDY** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:39 pm

wopass wrote:heya mate

never knew any of the 40 series came out with lekky hubs

part them off and pop some AISIN free wheeling hubs on, piss easy and no you dont have to change the axle

WILL THIS MEAN THAT I WILL HAVE TO CHANGE MY TRANSFER CASE? IT ONLY HAS HI 4, NEUTRAL, AND LO 4, ALSO WILL STANDED CRUISER HUBS DO THE SAME JOB?

coxsy · Post by **coxsy** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:48 pm

why should you change tranfercase's when it 's the hubs that are your problem

EDDY · Post by **EDDY** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:24 pm

because it is set up so wen u pull a switch out on the dash it engages 4wd and when the switch is in your in 2wd

oldblue · Post by **oldblue** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:57 pm

The switch is probley there to controll the transfer case when going from 4WD to 2WD. This will have nothing to do with the front freewheel hubs.
The only fuction of the hubs is to lock the front axles to the wheels.

rake · Post by **rake** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:59 am

You should have 2 switches on your dash. 1 for the hubs and 1 for the transfercase. If you change out your electric hubs for manuual ones which I would recomend anyway it should not effect your 4 wheel drive except you will have to get out of the truck to manually engage your hubs. The transferr case has an electric switch which engages a solenoid to bring you transfer case gear into gear via a vacuum switch which should be high up on the fire wall inside the engine bay right infront of the driver.

EDDY · Post by **EDDY** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:08 pm

THANK FOR THE HELP EVERY 1

skid · Post by **skid** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:30 pm

take a pic of your truck.

we wanna see this for ourselves, coz we never seen a 40 series with electric hubs
take pic of switches too

we just pic whores who wanna see everything new about 40s :lol:

EDDY · Post by **EDDY** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 8:45 pm

heres the pics

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wopass · Post by **wopass** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:09 pm

EDDY wrote:heres the pics

skid · Post by **skid** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:21 pm

well, I've never seen that before, especially on an oldie.

If it was 83/84, I could of believed it, but not 79.

thats rare as rocking horse shit

EDDY · Post by **EDDY** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:48 pm

its a jap import i think and 24 volt

niblik · Post by **niblik** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:52 pm

jebus...

how rare?!?!?!!! almost worth fixin it for the museum...!

almost... :mrgreen:

muddy · Post by **muddy** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:55 am

You may have a whole 70 series front axle? It looks like it has different front springs with the axle centred so it's a little further forward than normal.

MNC · Post by **MNC** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:44 pm

Can't be that uncommon. My old green truck had the same setup. Was an 81 Jap import (from memory).

EDDY · Post by **EDDY** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:08 pm

pritty shaw 1979 was the first year the electric hubs came out

cornfarmer · Post by **cornfarmer** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:04 pm

I had a 1980 BJ40 with the electric 4wd setup . I have never heard of them crapping out but after 28 years I guess they wear out. Try get another set might get another 28 years out of them!

oldblue · Post by **oldblue** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:16 pm

To my learned friends, We are getting confused about Electric hubs and Electrically controlled 4WD switches.which has nothing to do with the hubs
Electric hubs came out in 1990, on 70series.
These red 4WD switches came out on Jap imports, in conjuction with a H2 and L4 gear lever.

cornfarmer · Post by **cornfarmer** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:22 pm

Yeah im pretty sure the hubs on the early BJ40s are permantly engaged on the front axle, and all the switch does is sort the transfer case out.

EDDY · Post by **EDDY** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:55 am

oldblue wrote:To my learned friends, We are getting confused about Electric hubs and Electrically controlled 4WD switches.which has nothing to do with the hubs
Electric hubs came out in 1990, on 70series.
These red 4WD switches came out on Jap imports, in conjuction with a H2 and L4 gear lever.

so manual hub will solve this problem :?:

oldblue · Post by **oldblue** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:38 am

Tell use again, the problem.
In your system The front axle is a fixed drive, so if you don't have 4WD then its got to be in the switching system, which controlls the vacum diagrahm. or the vacumn side .

rake · Post by **rake** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:01 pm

Try switching your vacuum hoses on the transfercase around to see if you have 4wd. Don't touch any of the switches/knobs and if you have 4wd then it is definiatly your electric over vacumn solenoid switch.

SMOKEY · Post by **SMOKEY** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:28 pm

I'm with oldblue on this one. Looks to me you have the standard from factory fixed drive plates on the end of your stub axles, these drive flanges where removed when people fitted free wheel drive hubs. From new they had a cap on the end like a wheel bearing cap. DON'T throw your drive flanges away they are sort after as a spare to fit if ever you blow a freewheeling hub :wink:

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I WAS WRONG ONCE,-------- DON'T THINK IT WAS THIS YEAR,

FITZY.

EDDY · Post by **EDDY** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:29 am

HAY GUYS HAD ME CRUISER OUT FOR A RUN A WEEK OR 2 AGO AND IT SHIT OIL ALL THREW THE CAB IT SEEMS IT CAME FROM A HOSE ON THE PLUNGER UNIT AND INTO THE BACK OF THE DASH AND ITS NOT CONECTED TO ANYTHING. DOSE ANYONE KNOW WHAT ITS MENT TO DO OR WHAT ITS MENT TO CONECT TO.

CHEERS EDDY

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:51 pm

Jeez and these guys didn't believe you, they thought you were full of shet :lol:

Goes to show the old dogs can learn new tricks aye!

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