coopster

Haha! How do you know they're 'slightly better'?? I don't recall my 95 ever getting to 75 ish. Downhill, maybe. Great work btw.

On that gear, was there something special about that red shift fork? Or was it needed because of the actual gear size?

JAR3289

The red fork is the heavy duty Marlin crawler one. The first gear shift fork tends to wear out on these transmissions producing the "popping out of first gear". So I went with it to see if it lasts longer. It does have a larger contact surface and I can see it lasting better.

85toyman

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Cool build. You definitely took some interesting approaches to problems. Looks awesome! I am glad we have another 1uz build on here.

JAR3289

thanks man, I did read a lot of your posts before I went with this swap. There are tons of great stuff on this forum. I have been using my rig as a daily summer driver for the past three years with no major issues. I think I have around 30k miles on it.

84 yota dude

Still got this thing?

Was researching 1uz swaps and remembered this thread. Love how you swapped the 5th gear for more overdrive.

JAR3289

Thanks man, it was an awesome project, still driving it around in the summers as a daily driver.



QUOTE=84 yota dude;52439858]Still got this thing?

Was researching 1uz swaps and remembered this thread. Love how you swapped the 5th gear for more overdrive.[/QUOTE]

84 yota dude

That's awesome.

Would you do anything different if you were to do it again?

What's your winter rig?

JAR3289

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I would make sure the frame was not so rusty 😂. But seriously the only thing I would do different is maybe do a 1-2" body lift. This would allow me to push the engine and transmission back maybe an 1" for more room up front. I do struggle from time to time with overheating, still even after putting in a duel 1" core aluminum radiator with three fans on it. I would say between the fans and the engine I only have 0.5" Max, and on the back you can see it rubs the fire wall. Been thinking of putting a hood scoop and or louvered vents in the hood to let the heat escape. I do wish I new more about ignition systems, would be cool to get rid of the distributors, I feel like the engine could benefit from someone who knows how to tune with a stand alone computer. Maybe add a supercharger, but the overheating has me holding off on that a bit.

Oh yeah, the winter rig is a 2016 Tacoma 4x4 TRD, not as fun as the summer rig.

84 yota dude

Ha!

That makes sense.
Sounds like a super tight fit.

Nice winter rig.

Also, I looked up the gears for the 5th gear swap and it looks like they are discontinued. But I found a thread on Pirate that is about the swap with many more details. I haven't read the whole thing closely yet.
https://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/toyo...gear-swap.html

JAR3289

Thanks for the link, that's a good compiling of all the data I found when I was researching it. I remember seeing all those pictures but not sure where I initially found all the information. I see that getting these gears is getting a little harder.

84 yota dude

Back with a question about the 5th gear swap.

You successfully swapped the 5th gear on a pre 95 r150? With those part numbers?
I looked closely and see the nut holding the 5th gear on unlike the post 95 r150 trans.

JAR3289

Yes it was a 1994 transmission, those part numbers will not work on the 95 and up.

84 yota dude

Awesome!

Thanks for the reply. Appreciate it.

Unfortunately the counter gear is no longer available... Ugh!

JAR3289

Yeah, I have been looking for another one as well and can't find it anywhere. Just when there is a good solution!

84 yota dude

Such a bummer.

Did you take any pictures of the bottom of the gear?

There are later model counter gears still available and I am curious how they are different from the pre 95 counter gears? They look the same from the top picture.

Later model gear:
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Edit: I can see a slight difference in the number of "teeth" on the center.