I just got my currie twin sticks and it doesn't have a position for front high range. Is this a normal with all d300 twin sticks or just the bought ones. I think i can just yank the rear driveshaft and and put it in 4 wheel high and have front high but if i can make a shifter that has the option i will.
thanks

By virtue of the way that the Dana 300 is set up, it can't be operated in front wheel drive hi range. Lots of people have complained about it because the people selling the kits like to have you believe you can put it in whatever gear you damn well please when that just isn't the case.

As opposed to 4 positions of the shifter (as you have stock) you have three for each lever, low range, neutral, and hi range. The only extra options you get with twin sticks are Rear Wheel Drive LO Range and Front Wheel Drive LO Range (both of which are mondo handy).

it would be fun and convenient to be able to utilize front wheel drive (especially in the winter...that is, up here where we actually get snow that amounts to something) but sadly, tis not the case.

I think your suggestion of unhooking the rear d-shaft to run it in front wheel drive hi would work, but why would you (unless you blew a u-joint or broke the shaft). Or perhaps taht was what you were getting at....

Just for the record, I'm to cheap to shell out the $130 for a twin stick kit, so I made my own. Now that you have the currie one, you can probably see how easy it owuld be to just make it. 4 Plus Offroad's design is even easier. Check it out.

Boots

You wont have a front high postion on the sticks unless your remove the lockout..

The lockout is in place because once you remove it you can accidently put the rear in low and the front in high, Vis versa and blow that transfercase to never never land..

And this lockout would be where? As in teh ball detents on the shift rails? I know there was a lockout in the Dana 20 t-case, but wasn't one as I recocognized it in my 300....i'm sure I just didn't know what it looked like...

I'd like to take it out, so I could utilize front wheel drive hi range too!

Boots

Now you have me worried, what WOULD happen if I put one stick in high, and one in low?:( :nuke:

Originally posted by JohnC
Now you have me worried, what WOULD happen if I put one stick in high, and one in low?:( :nuke:

You'd grenade the case.

Originally posted by BootsntheJeep
And this lockout would be where? As in teh ball detents on the shift rails? I know there was a lockout in the Dana 20 t-case, but wasn't one as I recocognized it in my 300....i'm sure I just didn't know what it looked like...

I'd like to take it out, so I could utilize front wheel drive hi range too!

Boots

Assuming it is like the 20, you would remove the interlock pills between the rails, not the detent balls.

Well, I don't think the 300 has an interlock, hence why you really don't have to crack it open to make it twin-stick ready, its a bolt on application. The only thing I found holding the shift rails from moving wherever they wanted was the detent balls. I suppose you could take those out and get free range of movement in the shifters.

As for putting one in hi range and the other in lo range, it would definetly blow the u-joints, I don't know about grenading the case, probably if you really hammered on it. But really, why would you do that. I know, i know, its possible. I just think it'd be very noticeble having one ALL the way forward and one ALL The way back when you hardly ever do that. I dunno.

Anything's possible.

Boots

It is like the 20. Two oblong "balls" between the shift rods just in front of the case in the aluminum shift housing.

Not an easy job considering you have to pull the intermediate gear to get the shift forks off of the shift rods.

Easy job once that is done. Pull the rod out, remove the plugs on the side of the shifter housing, drop the lockouts out and reassemble.

Ed

thanks .
So i take it there is no other differences between yalls home made and thought out sticks and the currie ones? Just want to end up with the best set up.
Yea my unmoral plan was to buy the currie sticks and use them as a template to make my own. And either send them back or just sell them localy and lose a little.
Yea i was thinking if i blew my rear 60 i could pull the shafts and put it in front 2 hi but if that happens i'll just pull the rear driveshaft and put it in 4 hi. but the further in the build up i get the less i'm thinking about driving it to the trails
thanks again