Diy: 4wd To Rwd

[kidafa]

Hi all!

The forum has been lacking a DIY for putting your 4WD stag into RWD mode.

Firstly theirs a number of reasons you might want to:

• 2wd dyno runs
  
• Saving coin on the tuner pulling
  
• making yourself feel better due to less power loss from awd system
  
• Skids
  
• Burning up tyres before installing new ones
  
• any other stupid reasons you can think off......
  

The reason I'm pulling it is we've got a dyno day tomorrow and only mods since last power run on a 2wd dyno was shift kit and a 3' highflow cat (used to have gutted 2.5')... So im really trying to work out if the kits done anything power wise (yes I will report after the day)

It takes roughly 45 minutes, perhaps allow an hour for first timers

Tools required:

• 4 Jack Stands
  
• 13mm Ring Spanner
  
• Trolley Jack
  
• 12mm socket on ratchet and whatever adaptors you need for your setup
  
• King G Overals
  

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Method:

1. Start by jacking up your car get it so all 4 wheels are off the ground by 3 or so inches

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2. ENSURE you give the car a good shaking once its up on stands to ensure its nice and stable cos your going to be working under it!

3. Get under and locate your front drive shaft It comes out of the transfer case and has four bolts that go into the front diff

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4. Take your socket and 12mm and put it on the bolt head (side of bolt towards rear of car)

5. Try and give it a few spins to get it all moving you may be lucky and it may crack and you dont even need to use the 13mm to hold the nut still to undo them

[KiwiRS4T]

1. Au contraire there is already a thread entitled "Running Your Stagea In Rwd Mode, How to?" in the DIY section of the stickies at the top of this page.

2. But it is not very clear unless you read the whole thread where you will learn that for the S1 and S2 Stagea you have to (a) pull the fuse and (b) remove the front driveshaft.

So yes follow Chris' directions for removing the driveshaft

AND pull the 4wd fuse out of the fusebox next to the battery (after which the 4wd light should come up on the dash to indicate a fault).