The new Pathfinder is a different beast to the Navara - it's now an "All-mode 4x4". Not something you'd want to take off anything more slippery than gravel. Sort of puts it on par with Ford Rangers - keep them on the bitumen! (Come on, Nathan, bite will ya!!!). It's entirely possible that the Pathfinder fix will never work on the Navara unless we replace our drive train (and, of course, the control units, and marry those to the Navara ECU).
If we're talking the Navara box, cutting one wire here or there is only going to achieve making more joins in the wire. It's not going to change how the transfer case works - ours are simple beasts.
In our transfer cases, a 90 degree rotation engages a pawl that slides under the gear that drives the large HyVo chain that connects the front and rear drive shafts. The servo that does this takes one second to do this (as discovered by RaptorThumper).
A further 2 seconds of rotation - another 180 degrees of rotation, bringing the total rotation to 270 degrees - causes the planetary gears at the transfer case input to change from 1:1 to 2.625:1 entering low range.
You can't bypass the first stage. There's only one input - mechanically - to the transfer case, and in the D40 that's been controlled electronically (thus there's only one electrical input controlling the one mechanical input). You can't split it, change it, or ask Buddha to intervene and shine some divination in there to grant us the Most Holy of Ratios: 2LO.
D22s can only do it because they don't lock their front hubs and effectively achieve the same result, but they too have a transfer case that's not amenable to NOT engaging the 4WD components prior to engaging the low range components.
If we're talking the Navara box, cutting one wire here or there is only going to achieve making more joins in the wire. It's not going to change how the transfer case works - ours are simple beasts.
In our transfer cases, a 90 degree rotation engages a pawl that slides under the gear that drives the large HyVo chain that connects the front and rear drive shafts. The servo that does this takes one second to do this (as discovered by RaptorThumper).
A further 2 seconds of rotation - another 180 degrees of rotation, bringing the total rotation to 270 degrees - causes the planetary gears at the transfer case input to change from 1:1 to 2.625:1 entering low range.
You can't bypass the first stage. There's only one input - mechanically - to the transfer case, and in the D40 that's been controlled electronically (thus there's only one electrical input controlling the one mechanical input). You can't split it, change it, or ask Buddha to intervene and shine some divination in there to grant us the Most Holy of Ratios: 2LO.
D22s can only do it because they don't lock their front hubs and effectively achieve the same result, but they too have a transfer case that's not amenable to NOT engaging the 4WD components prior to engaging the low range components.
