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Took my 2.8L hilux turbo diesel for a spin down the coast on Friday and shattered the clutch plate on the way (one of the springs fell out). Fixed that with a heavy duty RPM clutch kit and then on the way home lost 5th gear and eventually the whole gearbox failed.

Is having 33's on a hilux along with the extra tourqe from the turbo too much for the driveline or am I just unlucky? I have bought a fully reconditioned 5 speed gearbox for $2000 fitted which also comes with a warranty. How long should I expect for this one to last?

unbreakable wrote:Took my 2.8L hilux turbo diesel for a spin down the coast on Friday and shattered the clutch plate on the way (one of the springs fell out). Fixed that with a heavy duty RPM clutch kit and then on the way home lost 5th gear and eventually the whole gearbox failed.

Is having 33's on a hilux along with the extra tourqe from the turbo too much for the driveline or am I just unlucky? I have bought a fully reconditioned 5 speed gearbox for $2000 fitted which also comes with a warranty. How long should I expect for this one to last?

depends on how much mechanical sympathy you have .. could destroy it easily in less than 6 months if you tried .. but should last for years.

the buying used bit on hiluxes said 5th gear is best saved for easy flat stuff, drop down on hills or it will fail.

so i'd say just use 4th more. not that i'm an authority on these things

Matt

i have 35's on my lux all day everyday with a 2.4 turbo, intercooled etc and when i blew the g52 box which was reco'ed before i bought it i about 8 months but looking back at it, it did cop abit of a hiding and as twinnie said dropping back a gear on the hills might have helped the life span of it. i have a r150 in mine now and cant be happier. (except maybe a gear drive transfer would be better then chain)

YB.LOW4 wrote:(except maybe a gear drive transfer would be better then chain)

Why do you say this?

Would it be worth swapping a gear transfer onto the back of the R series box?

The chain transfer is lower in low range which is better in my opinion.

(sorry for taking this off the original topic a bit).

Highway-Star wrote:

YB.LOW4 wrote:(except maybe a gear drive transfer would be better then chain)

Why do you say this?

Would it be worth swapping a gear transfer onto the back of the R series box?

The chain transfer is lower in low range which is better in my opinion.

(sorry for taking this off the original topic a bit).

I dont know alot about hiluxes but I'd assume its because there are plenty of aftermarket reduction gearsets (crawler gears) on the market for the gear driven transfers. If you've got a chain drive all you can do is change diff ratios. Not sure if the transfers are a straight swap.

RAY185 wrote:I dont know alot about hiluxes but I'd assume its because there are plenty of aftermarket reduction gearsets (crawler gears) on the market for the gear driven transfers. If you've got a chain drive all you can do is change diff ratios. Not sure if the transfers are a straight swap.

Thought of that, but the way it was posted sounded like another reason...

The chain driven is lower standard, which is nice.

I've got a G52 withs gear transfer, and R151 with chain transfer sitting here, and no way they are a straight swap, but I understand it can be done.

Yeah can be done there is plenty of info on marlin site it must be down at the moment will ink it up when i can

RAY185 wrote:

Highway-Star wrote:

YB.LOW4 wrote:(except maybe a gear drive transfer would be better then chain)

Why do you say this?

Would it be worth swapping a gear transfer onto the back of the R series box?

The chain transfer is lower in low range which is better in my opinion.

(sorry for taking this off the original topic a bit).

I dont know alot about hiluxes but I'd assume its because there are plenty of aftermarket reduction gearsets (crawler gears) on the market for the gear driven transfers. If you've got a chain drive all you can do is change diff ratios. Not sure if the transfers are a straight swap.

thats exactly why mate.

Here's the link could just use the box to case adapter using a top shift case
http://www.marlincrawler.com/htm/transf ... co_box.htm