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My 1986 regular cab SR5 was damaged when someone backed into it. The insurance company thinks its worth 1700$ , I think they are wrong . It has 300,oooKilometers hardley any rust on the cab , the box has been patched up and looks good at night in a rain storm ? Runs and drives great , I wonder...

Well I got ambitious the other day and took the transmission apart , good thing I did not have to separate the gears and stuff. It turned out that the large roller bearing on the output shaft was spaled on the inner bearing race. 40 dollars and some elbow grease and it should be good for the...

Thanks my neighbor at the cottage gave me an old toyota 4x4 with the non independant front end maybe a 83 or 84 I will check next time out there when the weather warms up , do you think that would be a 5 speed ?

Yes they salt a lot up here it is nearly impossible to find these old toyota's that are not rusted away, at least we are not humid like Ontario were these things rust away very quickly !

Pick n pull wreckers has the odd old toy truck and trans are 150 bucks, a rebuild ln Calgary is very pricey !

Yes it is a 5 speed and I don't know if they made more than one type or not, I would like to replace it with a 5 speed, unless a 4 speed would bolt in and not lose any top speed ?

It has 280000 km showing , the Trans works good but has a bearing noise in all gears except 4th. I have had the truck for about 8 years and I imagine everything is original ?

I have had a noisy bearing in my 86 pickup for several years, made it more bearable with lucas oil treatment. The clutch finally went so I thought I should fix the tranny as well . The repair guy I know said he would only use toyota bearings which are very expensive, and the old bearings are...

It was a fair size pot hole on a logging road, it actually started missing briefly before I hit the hole , then cleared up for a couple minutes , maybe the bump was just a coincidence. Thanks

I have a problem with my 87 with the 22r/e engine , I hit a bump and it started running poorly. It is only running on the first and last cylinders , the two middle cylinders have good spark and 150 compression. I figure it must be fuel problems , I unhooked one of the injector wires and am...