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4runner Handbrake into Hilux

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:51 am
by dillza_69
im sure its been covered but i cant find anything, even if i search using google.

What is involved? I have done a 3rz conversion and the exhaust has melted the handbrake cable. From the 4runner i only want to use the lever and the cable that runs to the middle of the car, is this possible?

If i am going about this the wrong way, what have other people who have done 3rz conversion done about the handbrake cable?

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:35 am
by dans-paj92
hey mate,
i got a '84 4runner and a '85 single cab lux.
I took the handbrake cable off the lux and put it on the 4runner. The hilux cable itself was too long so i had to get wire rope clamps to make it shorter. So if your putting a 4runner handbrake into a lux then it wud be too short.. Unless yours is a different year model to mine and they changed..
Cheers
Dan

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:36 am
by Rory
extractors stop this happening. other than that the v6 surf assembley, i belive u only need the front half back to the centre bearing x member

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:17 am
by vrod
this is a common mod for ingine swaps. but it looks like mine was modified to sit on the inside of the firewall. not sure if this is easier or not tho

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:34 am
by dillza_69
Rory wrote:extractors stop this happening. other than that the v6 surf assembley, i belive u only need the front half back to the centre bearing x member
that sounds like what i want, does the surf cable run down the inside of the firewall? And what model surf should i be looking for?

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:57 pm
by vrod
im pretty sure they are in v6 4runners

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:02 pm
by dillza_69
that is what i thought but when i rang a wrecker they said the cable ran down the outside of the firewall of the 4runner they had there, it might not have been a v6 though. I will look into it.

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:20 pm
by RUFF
vrod wrote:im pretty sure they are in v6 4runners
Correct. It is only the V6 4 runner that had this set up.

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:12 pm
by dillza_69
I have found a v6 4runner, I'm going to look at it tomorrow

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:00 pm
by madmont
The pulley for the handbrake on my 1999 RZN169 is in the cabin

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:32 pm
by smaddock
For my 3rz conversion into a 22R 4runner I used a V6 4runner handbrake, has the pulley on the inside of the firewall. I melted mine initially too :)

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:46 pm
by dillza_69
yep got one out of a v6 4runner. Cheers for all the reply's