T-Case or parts for '87 60 needed

[marcfj60]

A coworker has an '87 FJ60 that had a failure inside the transfer case. The repair facility has stated that one of the shift forks broke off a piece and that piece in turn punctured the case and had all the fluid leak out. Does anyone have a T-case that is correct for that year, or a pile of parts to snag the shift fork from? I've never had one of those open. I don't know if this even sounds reasonable. But I offered to ask in our group and see what I could find. The repair facility claims that they cannot find the part new or at a salvage yard. I'm assuming they've looked for an entire T-case at salvage.

Does anyone have an entire T-case or some parts that they'd be willing to part with? Any other suggestions? I don't know if the service facility tried to see if the parts were available through Toyota.

 

[OGBeno]

The transfer case, as an assembly, is no longer available from Toyota.

All of the parts needed to rebuild it are available, including the case assembly.

 

[Cruisergreg]

A coworker has an '87 FJ60 that had a failure inside the transfer case. The repair facility has stated that one of the shift forks broke off a piece and that piece in turn punctured the case and had all the fluid leak out. Does anyone have a T-case that is correct for that year, or a pile of parts to snag the shift fork from? I've never had one of those open. I don't know if this even sounds reasonable. But I offered to ask in our group and see what I could find. The repair facility claims that they cannot find the part new or at a salvage yard. I'm assuming they've looked for an entire T-case at salvage.

Does anyone have an entire T-case or some parts that they'd be willing to part with? Any other suggestions? I don't know if the service facility tried to see if the parts were available through Toyota.

One thought that maybe worth what you're paying for it:

A shift fork breaking and flying through the case seems unlikely. However, there is a gotcha with the split case. The Woodroff (sp?) key can come off and that sucks the input shaft into the t-case, casing fluid loss among other bad things. I can't imagine a cast piece like the shift fork would break without other bad things happening as a primary force of failure.

My 0.02

 

[Devil Frog]

I have a complete '87 tranny and split case, would let in go as a complete assembly, to put $ in the h55/Orion fund

 

[pappy]

Greg, are you talking about the key on the outside that holds the idler shaft in place?

 

[Cruisergreg]

Greg, are you talking about the key on the outside that holds the idler shaft in place?

Yes. It has a habit of coming loose and sucking the shaft into the t-case. A common failure apparently. And you're correct it's the idler shaft not an input shaft as I wrote initially.

 

[Cruisergreg]

The reason I think a mere clutch fork failure wouldn't cause so much damage, as dscribed, is that it happily rides under no real stress 99% of the time on the dog clutch for 2WD drive and 4WD. A failure of the 4Hi vs 4low 4WD fork seems even less likely since it's almost never used on most rigs.

Again, just my 0.02.

 

[marcfj60]

One thing to note is that these same folks replaced the clutch master and slave cyl. not too long ago. I don't know if they did any more work beyond that. If they did pull the T-case or tranny, they could have unknowingly caused the problem Greg is talking about. Also, this truck has ~300K miles on it.


I wish I could 'trust' what this person has told me about the problem but he doesn't know much about autos and I'm getting it second-hand after his mechanic has told him what's wrong. I'll suggest to his mechanic that they go to AmToy, talk with Onur, and he can help them find the part(s) that they need.

Or, if he'd rather buy a whole assembly, how much are you wanting Isaac?

 

[Devil Frog]

Or, if he'd rather buy a whole assembly, how much are you wanting Isaac?

I could part with the assembly for $600

 

[Cruisergreg]

One thing to note is that these same folks replaced the clutch master and slave cyl. not too long ago. I don't know if they did any more work beyond that. If they did pull the T-case or tranny, they could have unknowingly caused the problem Greg is talking about. Also, this truck has ~300K miles on it.

Absolutely no reason to pull the tranny or tcase to replace clutch hydraulics.

 

[marcfj60]

That's what I thought.

 

[marcfj60]

I've got more information regarding this shift fork that I thought others might like to read about. Apparently, in the '80s, a company called Fairey made an add-on "overdrive" unit that you could modify your T-case with that would give you a third speed in the T-case, and a third lever for shifting into and out of this gear. The original owner of this truck bought one of these units when the truck was new and had it installed. It provides a 0.78:1 ratio "overdrive". Well, the grandson of the owner of this truck has been driving it and thought you could shift the third lever for the overdrive on the fly, after he'd gotten up to speed in 4th gear. After 300K+ miles, the BRASS shift fork had had enough of shifting on the fly and one side of it broke off. I think the mechanic this guy uses doesn't know much about Land Cruisers and the existence of these aftermarket overdrive units and only recently figured out that it was not an OEM part. He's going to just immobilize the mechanism for the add-on unit so that the T-case is in the standard ratio. And of course he had to get the case welded where the busted off fork punched a hole in it as it travelled around and got chewed up by the gears. Sorry, but I don't have a picture to send of any of it.