1st gen 4runner shift issue after crossmember install

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tgell001

tgell001

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1986 4runner Automatic

Installed a budbuilt crossmember that didn't exactly fit correctly, so he shipped me spacers and it required 2 to remove the interference with the bottom of the case. Now, I'm stuck in 4WH and the shifter but it into 2WH or 4WL. The shifter moves but feels as if its obstructed. Everything I've read up on these transfercases shows the linkage travels thru the case itself originating in the transmission. So how is there an interference? I need to remedy this before the weekend and its been raining is butt off here so I'm going to have to brave it to knock this out.

1. What should I be looking for?

2. doesn't anyone have an exploded view of this linkage?

3. As anyone else had this issue and resolved it with "body work"
 
You should have a 22RE and a A340F transmission with a VF2A chain-driven transfer case. The linkage for the transfer case is external, in other words not inside the case but outside, so obviously something is causing binding in the linkage after you installed the crossmember. The linkage doesn't go through the transmission. Support the xfer and remove the skidplate/crossmember and see if your linkage binding goes away. If it does, it's the cause of the problem and using spacers and such is just asking for trouble.

UNLESS you have a v6 which is doubtful as it's an 86. If you do have a v6 you have a A340H trans and an integrated transfer case. In which case yeah all the linkage is internal.

There's pics online but not many. Do you have a factory service manual? It's well worth the cost even if you pay $50 for one.

Hope this helps.
 
You can have the A340H behind a 22re. My 89 did. I'm wondering if your shifter is binding, I'd take the skid plate off and put the old one on and see if it changes anything.
 
Its a 22re, What appears to be the linkage is external and looks like a L bracket that spans top to bottom? I was second guessing myself because everything I found online was showing an internal linkage. So help me to understand, does the linkage attach to the top so I should be chasing an interference with the body or is the linkage attached to the bottom and my crossmember may been to be cut or adjusted?
 
I have a A340H btw, i just did some reading and the shifter is a giveaway it looks like
 
tgell001 said:
I have a A340H btw, i just did some reading and the shifter is a giveaway it looks like
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Want to know for sure what came in your truck? Look at the VIN plate on the firewall. It will tell you the tranny that came in the truck.
 
Lots of 22re's with the a340h. My 85 for example... I have yet to see an a340f behind a 22re despite there being several websites claiming the a340f was the primary automatic. I would remove the crossmember and support the transmission with a jack and lower it until your shifter starts working again. Then figure out where the interference is.
 
Turns out when I jacked the transfer case up to install the new skid, I went too far and bent the bracket that converts the shift from the top to the bottom/side. It bent it back close enough to go between 4h and 4l but can only get to 2H if someone sits in the drivers seat and moves the lever and I help under the truck... That'll work for this weekend trip, and hopefully that's the only thing that needs fixing when I get back haha
 
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