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Looking at buying an 86 4runner, 22re with an auto tranny. Seems to shift good and strong. Are there any big issues witht he tranny, as far as strength and reliabilty?
Toyota auto tranny??
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If your planning to use it for a daily driver the auto tranny works great, but if your planning to set it up for hard trail use, skip it and get one with a manual tranny.
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Well, the rpice is righteous, so I most likely will snag it anyway. Its gonna be a wheeler, SAS will be #1 mod. How hard is the conversion? I would assume amazingly simple. Bolt in stuff, Id imagine.
I'll disagree, Ifind the auto tranny to be fine on the trail, but it saps too much power from the 4-banger to be a good daily driver. If it shifts crisply then it's in good shape, but be aware that they can develop alot of slop over time, and they are not very cheap to fix. I personally love mine, and there are a few other members who agree with me.
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Wow, that really what I wanted to hear.
This rig will only see street to and from the local trails, and a very limited DD status.
This rig will only see street to and from the local trails, and a very limited DD status.
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Not the SAS.....Im not ignorant. I see I typed it confusingly. I meant the auto-manual conversion.
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i had an 88 w/auto... it had 260,000 miles on it and i had NO problems with the tranny, and i always hammered it around town (DD). i must say the only place the trans really sucked was long uphills, very slow and high taching
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I had an 86 4Runner with an auto trans worked absolutly fine on and off road, (it was a turbo though) took it everywhere or anywhere I wanted, just a few locations I went with it: Rubicon, (did skip the sluice) Los Coyotes, (did el hill and went down to bagbys rock) some awsome trail in Arizona with the Mesa 4Wheelers, (can't remeber the name something like upper and lower woodpecker or peckerwood or such) Ackybreaky, Doran Canyon and so on and on. Never had any problems with the trans at all sold it with 245,000 on the od and never had to even rebuild it. I did notice that once the motor aged it no longer wanted to climb steep hills with large rocks. It was well set up with lockers front and rear, 4.88 gears, downey/rancho/procomp suspension, lots of armor, 33'sx11.50 tires, and the auto trans which is like having a "Marlin Crawler" type gear reduction which I called auto gear reduction. The only down side would be on the down side of any hill does not have any engine braking for the most part but I would just use enough e-brake to slow it down without sliding. This was before SAS was common which is what I would go with if I did another IFS Yota, but never did I fear 3wheelin' with my IFS. I loved my auto and am in the process of swapping out my 4 speed for and auto in my Willys.
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Excellent info, thanks a bunch. I really couldnt see Toyota using a shitty transmission fo any kind, but I just wanted to make sure. Now all I got to do is finalize a price, and I will have made tha switch to the dark side
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