The truck is a 1986 Toyota 22RE-Turbo with the A340F automatic transmission and VF2A chain drive transfercase and 4wheel drive. I would like to make it a manual, what manual transmissions with geardriven transfercases will bolt up to the turbo 22RE if any? any tips/advice on the conversion?

 

I believe any manual transmission thats bolted to a 22re will work. The manual transmission that came in the pickups with factory turbo is your best bet though although they are quite difficult to find

 

I believe the turbo equipped models came with the R series manual transmissions. IIRC, the 2WDs use the R150, and the 4WDs use the R151. The non-turbo 4 cylinders usually ran a W series manual transmission (and I think sometimes a G series?). The R series is stronger, which is why they ran them in the turbo and V6 models.

The problem you will likely run into with trying to bolt up an R series to your motor, is the bell housing. The transmissions are easy to find, but the bell housing can be a different story, unless you find one out of a turbo truck.

I'm not at all experienced enough to know which ones came with the geardriven transfers though. Seems like I remember reading that the W series use a geardriven transfer, while the R series is chaindriven, but I really don't know. That seems kind of counter-intuitive, to put the chain drive on a stronger transmission, and vice-versa.

Welcome to YT!

 

Gear driven cases only came behind 4cylinders

 

check these pages out
http://www.bchawkins.com/22rte.html
http://www.toyotaholics.com/support/...sp?TOPIC_ID=19
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=587521
http://www.toyotaholics.com/support/
https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f116...riteup-208821/
https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f116...stions-206990/
http://www.well.com/user/mosk/welcome.htm
http://www.22rte-trucks.com/simplemachinesforum/