I haven't tried my 4wd since fall, but its always worked well when I pulled my boat out. The 4wd system in my tacoma works far slicker than my gen1 tundra ever did. You just turn the knob on this tacoma, and its immediate 4wd lights green on the dash. My tundra would blink, and eventually engage with huge clunk shaking the truck.
More like sticky. It was that way from day one, never getting better. Never as fluid as this taco, otherwise my tundra ran great. I had heard cases on those gen1 tundras that year that some had faulty actuators in the transfer case, and wouldn't do 4wd at all.That tundra sounded sickly