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Well after 11 months of research and finding parts I am ready to start my automatic to 5 speed swap tonight. Any last suggestions? Anything to watch out for? I will be sure and post pictures later!
Mine is all apart again, I just changed the 3rd gear synchro, and now I'm waiting for a new RPS MAX pressure plate, it's supposed to hold 450 ft/lbs with an organic disc, so no more slipping. I used a N.O.S. OEM pressure plate to start with, and it had the lightest pedal feel by far of any car I've driven. I hated that and the fact that it slipped way too easy.
Yeah I read your writeup and Ratkos several times and have both printed out for reference. I bought an ACT clutch kit with a heavy duty pressure plate and an organic street disc. Its a stock flywheel (resurfaced of course) and all new fastners from toyota. I am still waiting on toyota to get two bolts in for me. Anyone have any tips on getting the axles out of the differential? the carrier bearing is really stuck in there. Is it cool to pry on the drivers side at the diff?
My passenger axle carrier bearing was stuck hardcore the first time around due to oxidation between the bearing outer race and the mount. When I pulled it apart this recent time, it pulled right out (new parts). Yours might be easy, or it might be hard. What I ended up doing was lowering the tranny out first, then beating on the end of the axle where it was splined into the differential to drive it out of the mount. Even with a nice heavy sledge and some muscle, it still took a couple minutes of hammering. Luckily it's not so hard anymore.
Hmm so you just left the axle in and pulled the tranny off of the axle? Then with the tranny gone beat on the end of the axle to get the stuck bearing out? Sounds like I need a sledge.
Well its finally done, had to wait a bit for an extra bolt but me and two friends did the whole swap in one day! Started at 4pm and finished at 4 in the morning. Its running great, check engine light for the three shift solenoids but I have resistors ordered to fix that. No leaks and it shifts very smoothly. I am still breaking in the ACT heavy duty clutch but I already have 150 miles on it without incident!
did you get any pics or run into any major problems? did the clutch master cylinder give you any trouble?
My GF has the pics now I need to get them from her. We couldnt get the carrier bearing out of the engine mount so we just unbolted the rear engine mount which is really very simple. 4 bolts. The exhaust cat bolts were so rusted we took a grinder to them and ground them out then put new ones in. The exhaust manifold to down pipe piece broke off a bolt at the flange. We just skipped out on the third bolt since I will soon lose that section of exhaust in my turbo project. The tranny was a bitch to line up and the axles were hard to pull out. Other than that its all good. I have 210 miles on it now and its feling real good. At half throttle now it feels like full throttle before. Oh and cruise control stopped working so Im taking it out. Its amazing how torquey this motor really is without a slushbox sucking power. It feels much more peppy. And the weight loss of about 100 lbs is noticable.
Just remember kids, its not how you stand by your car, its how you stand IN your car!
The only picture I can find so far, check out the size of that engine hoist and the ghetto rigged 2x4 to add stability lol.
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I used a N.O.S. OEM pressure plate to start with, and it had the lightest pedal feel by far of any car I've driven. I hated that and the fact that it slipped way too easy.
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