Rear wheel only drive

General discussion about our beloved Tercel 4WD cars
4wdchico
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My tercel:: 1985 tercel 4wd
Location: Chico, Norcal

Re: Rear wheel only drive

Post by 4wdchico »

Lazymechanic wrote:This is good. The T50 trans. I figured since the stock transmission output shaft is not in-line with the clutch center, I'd have to lower the motor. The only other concern is where the shifter ends up. It looks like it's further back than the one on the Tercel. Knit picking at this point though. As far as the Pneumatic drive for the front wheels, it's a nice idea, but I'd like to know if you've implemented anything of the sort. I can't imagine you're fabricating drive mechanisms from scratch, so what equipment uses such a thing that you'd be retrofitting? I've seen hydrolic drive for construction equipment like this fork/crane that used to tool around a site I worked one summer, but never pneumatic drive. And generating/compressing as well as driving too? Let me know where to find this stuff. So looking for the T50, I found pictures of hopped up corollas. I figure it was one of the options for one of the sporty ones, but if you have more specifics about what models had this trans and when, it'd be a big help. I think I'll be cruising junkyard row once I have all the info. The best deals are the least organized yards where you have to tell them what cars you want to check out. Go in with a part number and see the guy check his computer database and you know he's gonna charge top dollar. "Irrigadless" I'm jazzed. There's windy roads I've tried to forget that are knawing on me now that the drift is creeping back into my dreams . . . :shock:
The T50 tranny is comon to the Corolla ae86 in both GTS (4age) and SR5 (4ac) versions. Possibly older RWD Corollas as well. The bellhousings are different as the slave cyl. is placed on the opposite side of exhaust. So I'm pretty sure that you would need an ae86 SR5 bellhousing.

Pnu drive is something I have yet to really research. Was one told by a mech. engineer who had much experience in pnu that air compressor/ motors do in fact exist.
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