TOY: Re: Toyota 4x4 Mailing List V1 #573

["Evan Mills" <mudyota@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik Bibelheimer wrote:
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>The shifter "seat" is probably what you guys are talking about.
>Here's an article for the V6 tranny, yours should be similar:
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>http://www.off-road.com/toyota/tech/shifter/index.html
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>It may or may not fix the problem, but its a good place to start.

I just did this on my 89 4Runner. It's like having a new tranny. The shifter 
has about 1/8" of play in it, instead of the 1" or so it had before. Now you 
hear clickety-click... click-click every time you shift. It's friggin' 
sweet!

The part numbers in that article for the bushing and seat will work (We 
should both have the W56 tranny.) but the diagram is a little off. The 
shifter boot on my tranny (I shredded it getting it off) was shaped like a 
football with the pointy end cut off, but the V6 tranny in that diagram has 
a round boot.

If I were you, I'd do this thing NOW. The results are excellent, it costs 
like $12. The article says it's not sure which part to replace, so I got 
them both - which was a good thing, since both the seat and bushing were 
SHOT TO HELL in my tranny. The bushing had cracked all the way through! You 
pull your center console, undo 6 phillips head screws, undo 4 more screws, 
and pull the shifter straight up. Then replace the parts and put it all back 
together. It took me about 10 minutes, but I had my interior gutted of 
everything but the seats at the time.

Evan Mills
89 4Runner, 33" MT/Rs, 9K Winch.

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