89 4 run 5sp trany to 89 ter 4x4?

[WolfHound]

Ok i have serched alot of posts and didn't find anything. I'm new here seems like a good crowd. My spelling isn't that great.

I have an 89 4x4 5sp tercel hatch tranny keeps poping out of gear a guy said trany is bad get a new one it has 230,000 on engine 4cyl. It got me back and forth to school for a year with smoke out the exaust oil leeking everyware and a leaking cylender or 2 and a (nick name) Run put put given by students. Every time i turnd off key it made smoke rings and hesitated to turn off till it backfired. I was gona dump it but it gave its all for a year and drove over 2hr 20min every day like this. I cant get rid of a tank like this. now since i graduated and have a litle income i can give it the special treatment.

question is will a 89 toyota 4 runner 5sp trany and transfercase out of a v6 fit to the tercel 4cyl engine? Or is thair a bell housing adapter anybody nows of that will make this posable. my bro has this trany lying around the house roting away if it will fit he will give it to me. I don't now much about tranys. Any help is aprishiated i love to gain and learn from others knawlage.

[dlb]

welcome, wolfhound. i'm afraid your tercel can't be an '89 4x4 5 spd hatch. first, the latest the 4x4s were made was '88, and there weren't many of them. second, the manual transmission 4x4s are actually a 6-spd since it has an extra low gear available when in 4wd. third, by hatchback you must mean station wagon, since no 4x4 hatchback tercels were made. so i'm going to assume that yours is actually an '88 6-spd 4x4 wagon. let me know if i'm totally wrong with that assumption. you can check the date of manufacture on the metal tag in the driver door jamb.

on to your trans questions. when does your trans pop out of gear? does it do it for all gears?

i'm afraid the 4wd tercel transmission is unique to these cars so no, no other trans will fit. if your trans is in fact dying, you will have to find another used one in good shape and put it in. however, the '83-'84 4wd tercel transmissions have a different gear ratio from the '85-'88 trans's so you have to make sure you get the right kind of trans to match your rear diff. sounds confusing but everyone here will help you through it if need be.

sounds like your car is a real project at this point. as long as it doesn't have serious rust or frame damage though, i'm sure it's worth doing the work on. i've restored several of these cars, have loved all of them, and learned a lot along the way. as long as you have the patience, anything can be fixed.

[WolfHound]

Ok i was totaly wrong i got a few cars to remember dates on Sorry about that.

Its an 1985 toyota tercel 4x4 it's gold and has 5 gears on the shifter not including reverse and a seprite shift lever for the 4wd. It has four doors and a gulwing style hatch door on rear. It pops out of 1st every now and then and pops out of 4th on acashion going on flat surface.

All other gears shift just fine. I'm gona check the fluid tomorow maybe it has a leak. everything else is leaking fluid lol. I herd if its low on fluid it will make it pop out of gear. I just graduated Tech school in the collishion field maybe i should of taken engine and tranny shop instead. lol thanks for quick post bummer it wont work maybe i can find a overhaul kit for transmission and just rebuild it.

[Petros]

kits are available, a rebuild is a big job but no more complicated than any other 5 speeds (except it has the transfer case on the rear and the extra low first gear). Flushing the trans with a 50/50 mix of ATF and cheap gear oil, drive gently for a day or two, and than drain and refill with fresh gear oil may help, but usually will not fix a worn shift linkage. finding good used transmissions is becoming more of a problem because the last time they were made was '87, and all are the same age. but they are out there.