1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Yup, it's a 6 speed that's a direct swap with a readily available bellhousing adapter. It's cheaper than any of the Toyota transmissions that came behind a 2J and it's stronger by far, even manual Supra guys swap to them after they blow up their R154

 

Not bad.

All this Corona Traffic (or lack thereof) has me wishing I had a faster vehicle. Couldve easily held 100 mph or more on some parts of my drive home last night.

 

I'm not sure that would survive any better

That sounds good

 

It's a really easy conversion to do and if you pack the rack with grease I think it would do fine. At least it would stop leaking or blowing seals, but I'm not sure how long the pinion and rack would last before wearing out since all the steering force is moved to the pinion rather than the ram in the rack.

 

I might just do that regularly anyhow. It's seriously spooky how smooth this car is at speed. I've regularly drive cars as new as 2014 models, nice ones, that didn't feel so smooth and planted at speed. As for the manual trans, I'll likely put a shift kit in it and see how long it takes to blow up at around 450 horsepuppies. People seem to speak highly of the A650 so maybe it'll impress me. I like how it drives around town, shifts nice and firm. I'm not entirely against keeping it if it wants to be kept

 

Find an old manual rack. Install electronic motor on the column. They’re surosingly strong

 

I wonder how strong the 5 lug manual rack is

 

Not, it is very small

 

All that work, still IFS (to summarize what the same buddy who offered me the 41s always sez when I'm asking questions)

 

All the money I've spent of that front diff for gears and locker, CVs,hubs, rack, ball joints...still IFS

 

Now is not the time to starting cutting things, start collecting for the winter

 

So is a Corona virus mod day a bad idea? For once there are lots of local people around to hang out

 

Less than 10, full send

 

I'll just tell everyone to leave their wives and kids at home

 

10 seems like it would be a pile of humans for a mod day anyway

 

I wish my truck was emo so it would cut itself

 

Same, I’d request parallel though

 

The reman Autozone PS pump in the Taco has whined since I installed it. 14k miles or so on it now, whines and works. Even with the Magnafine filter and PS cooler I installed. Gets a little quieter when it warms up tho. I just think of it as an imaginary supercharger.

 

That's usually cavitation, remans are cheap, might be worth checking that your filter screen in it is clean.

 

It is, or was when I swapped it to the new pump. I've bled the shit out of it too, can't get it to stop whining. I'm just waiting for it to die and I'll replace it with a Toyota unit.