Have you ever seen a 76 FJ40 with full time 4WD?

[JohnnyC]

@bjowett I was looking for a reference to the m42 … haven’t been able to find a top load direct shifter with the side cover filler … had you seen an M42 before? And were they setup like the one on the prototype?

I thought maybe they created the designation M42 as the top load direct shifter as a variant of the M40 and then M41 ?

Have not been able to find diagrams of a direct shift M series anyplace … they all seem to be either lever floor shift or column shift

Just wondering

 

[Living in the Past]

Found a diagram of the M41 (thank you @bjowett !!)… looks like most every one I’ve found are column shift and the floor shift are with levers … so the M42 is a straight floor shift? and fill plug mounted on inspection plate/pto cover

This looks like yours John?

It seems the case may be the same 4 speed and 5speed but the 5 speed has a longer rear section addition

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My search was bringing up the same thing. Most five speeds. Also were column shift.

It does look like mine from the limited I can see. Listed as an M42 does make sense.

Going put the back on jack stands see if I can get some better pictures of the transmission and transfer case. Not sure I will time to pulled the seats and gas tank to pull the transmission cover this trip.

if its anything like the quadratrac BW made for the Cherokee Chiefs its junk IMO.

Fifty years later it really about the rarity of the vehicle not the quality of the components Toyota used. If the transmission is a Toyota M series transmission not used in the US just help confirm it was build by Toyota. If converted later in the US highly doubt someone would have sourced an out of market transmission to covert to a Borg Warner. Years ago @JohnnyC researched and found Borg Warner was in Japan in 1976 and had a relationship with Toyota. That may explain why Toyota used a Borg Warner. Because no information from Toyota can be found it may have been the quality of the transfer case why Toyota abandoned the project. But it shows Toyota was interested in putting a full time four wheel drive in a Land Cruiser in 1976. Believe the 80 series was the first production full time four wheel drive in a Land Cruiser. But always possible some other proto types were tried in other series in between.

 

[bjowett]

I have not seen another M Series with direct shift, and have the same assumption that the designation was created for the project…. Or perhaps already existed in the series, but was never implemented in any other vehicles. I believe the H50/51 are also remote shift, H55F is obviously top load direct.

Agreed, very rare… add to that the mere fact that these survived and made their way into private ownership is impressive.

Aisin and Borg Warner formed Aisin Warner in 1969. Toyota wanted AT technology and utilized BW designs for the product … unsure what Borg Warner was after. I’m sure all sorts of ideas and projects were discussed over their years together (ended partnership in 1987)… and both likely had access to each other’s design and engineering catalogs. So it makes sense, not having their own, that Toyota tried out this BW transfer case when the AWD idea came up.

 

[Living in the Past]

Was looking for a tag on the transfer case. The back up on jack stands I found this.

Maybe someone can identify the model.

 

[Living in the Past]

Because I not sure of the status of the transfer case I never driven it. The PO who started the thread said it had 4,000 mile when he bought it. When I bought it eleven years later it had 4,502 miles where it is today. I removed the driveshafts to tow it. My original thought was if the transfer is trashed I'll throw a H42 with matching transfer case. Along with stock four speed driveshafts. The high low shifter could be used for a PTO winch. But with original exhaust not sure it would work.