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early tacoma double cabs
« on: Jan 01, 2010, 04:58:43 PM »
has anyone done a manual transmission swap on one of these. I think it would be an awesome truck but i cant stand the autos and they manual wasnt an option with these trucks. would it be pretty hard or expensive? ive done a swap on an 86 4runner and that wasnt to hard but im not sure if it would be about the same to do it on one of these trucks.thanks for any help.
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Re: early tacoma double cabs
« Reply #1 on: Jan 02, 2010, 09:03:26 PM »
Quote from: NCK4L on Jan 01, 2010, 04:58:43 PM
has anyone done a manual transmission swap on one of these. I think it would be an awesome truck but i cant stand the autos and they manual wasnt an option with these trucks. would it be pretty hard or expensive? ive done a swap on an 86 4runner and that wasnt to hard but im not sure if it would be about the same to do it on one of these trucks.thanks for any help.

have not done it myslef but i think it would not be that hard. prob just like doing it on an older truck
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Re: early tacoma double cabs
« Reply #2 on: Jan 04, 2010, 12:39:21 PM »
I would first make sure that your crank can accept a pilot bearing.  I know some toyota engines that came with a auto trans did not have the relief cut in them for the bearing although I'm not sure that the 3.4 is one of those motors.
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Re: early tacoma double cabs
« Reply #3 on: Jan 05, 2010, 12:23:50 AM »
There's a few of those on TTORA, not sure who but I know there's some.

I know, i'm not much help. But it gives you some direction to search..
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Re: early tacoma double cabs
« Reply #4 on: Jan 05, 2010, 06:55:35 AM »
Ok, so I did a little search on ToyoDiy.com and found that the 3.4 has the same crank whether it is used with a manual or auto trans - so a pilot bearing will go in it.  Now, go find yourself a wrecked parts truck to swipe everything off of - don't forget, you're gonna need a engine harness as well as a ecu - maybe even a dash harness.
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Re: early tacoma double cabs
« Reply #5 on: Jan 05, 2010, 09:28:25 AM »
its not at all like doing it in an older truck. it takes a lot of rewiring and installing resisters(there a thread here where Marlin talks about it). Ii have not done this but i did look into it when i was thinking about buying a d-cab. i will try and find the link's i had on what need to be done.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080213212808/http://www.junglecode.com/toyota/tacoma/transmission/
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