The 80 series automatic transmission have problems ? they break ? (1 Viewer)

[adictoserie80toyota]

Hello, i'm Miguel from Spain, i have a question, here in Spain they are a few petrol engine 80 Series, i think that 15 ore 20 80 petrol engine, and a lot of them in Diesel engine, all Turbo charged ( HDJ 80 ). The automatic transmision brokes in the turbodiesel engine, i have a FJ80 3FE engine with 152.000 Milles and my automatic transmission works very well ( I change the Transmission OIL once a year ) Yours 80 series broken the automatic transmission ?


Why they break ?

Excuse me or my cheap english

You can respond my in Spanish if you want

Thank's

Miguel

 

[Beowulf]

Miguel,
The North American market (USA & Canada) only go automatic transmissions and petrol engines. No diseasel. No manual transmission.

The automatic transmissions are doing very well in our market. We got 2 different transmissions; the A442 in 90-94, and the A343 in 95-97 (which was also used in the 100-Series and the 4Runner.)

Good maintenance on the transmission is important.

There have been a few A442 complete failures but I am not sure we know the reason since maintenance is unknown. One (recent) failure (torque converter ?) is discussed in a current thread here in the 80-Section. We later found out the transmission had been making noise and vibrations for a few months before it failed. There have been a couple that failed due to bad shift solenoids. This is an easy fix though and not too spendy ($$$)

-B-

 

[CJF]

We got 2 different transmissions; the A442 in 90-94, and the A343 in 95-97

US 91-92's (actually 88-92) have the non-electronically controlled A440F.

Curtis

 

[wussyPup]

Yours 80 series broken the automatic transmission ?

Why they break ?

Hi Miguel,

I have a 1990 turbo diesel 80 series with A442F automatic transmission imported from Japan.

It over heated, popped a seal, and damaged the torque converter and oil pump body at about 140,000 Km; about 10,000 Km after I imported it.

I don't know the actual cause of the failure; but here are some details:
- hot day (high 20s celcius)
- 35" MT tyres
- towing a boat (not too heavy, a little over 1 tonne)
- highway driving with long (not that steep) hills

I was travelling at about 90 km/h in 3'rd gear going up a long hill when it failed - I understand that the stock valve body does not lock the torque converter in 3'rd gear; this will generate more heat.

Instead of having it rebuilt locally, I exchanged it for a reconditioned unit from Wholesale Automatic Transmissions in Australia.

-Steve

 

[concretejungle]

no. because they don't.

 

[fernandol]

Hola Miguel, aqui en USA la serie 80 solo estubo disponible en trasmision automatica y motor de gasolina, nunca existio la opcion de motor diesel ni transmision manual.
Los modelos mas antiguos con el motor 3f tenian una trasmision automatica bastante basica sin ningun tipo de electronica, luego cuando salio el motor 1fz cambiaron la trasmision a un modelo un poco mas sofisticado, controlado electronicamente. En general ninguna de las dos trasmisiones dan problemas. Siempre hay algunos casos de fallas pero son aislados y con mantenimiento dudoso o desconocido. En general yo no soy muy amigo de las transmisiones automaticas pero hay que reconocer que en el caso del Landcruiser 80 la trasmision no es motivo de preocupacion, por lo menos en la version norte americana.

un saludo

Fernando

 

[Beowulf]

Hola Miguel,

Guys,

While I appreciate that you want to help the guy in his native language, those of us that don't read/speak Spanish might appreciate a "synopsis" of your post... at least so we can agree, disagree, or post additional information.

This is an English language forum.

-B-

 

[92LC_good2go]

Guys,

While I appreciate that you want to help the guy in his native language, those of us that don't read/speak Spanish might appreciate a "synopsis" of your post... at least so we can agree, disagree, or post additional information.

This is an English language forum.

-B-

Beowulf, my Spanish sux (I'd do far better with an exact Russian translation)... but a rough translation (not too shabby a translation, just not exact) is this:



Hello Miguel, Here in the United States, the 80 series is/was (?) only available with gasoline engines and automatic transmissions. We were never given either the diesel engine or the manual transmission as options. The old models came with the 3F engine & a basic auto tranny with no known major problems, other than a very few failures due to a simple electronic problem. Then, when they changed to the 1FZ engine and other tranny to the newer (??) model(s) a few problems, but (something about electronic control/issues???). In general, neither of the two trasmisiones has problems. As always, there are some few cases of faulty (dunno if he means engines or trannys or both?? - an apparently implied object word or words are not stated outright), but these are isolated, and might be due to/on account of faulty/poor mainteneance or ignorance (of P.O.???). In general I do not like automatic transmissions, but [you] have to understand that, with Land Cruiser 80, there is no reason worry about the tranny, at least not in the American North version. Greetings, Fernando



I think that Fernando was merely translating your post (post#2), Beowulf, into Spanish, now that I look at it again.



Gee, sometimes I sure wish I'd bothered to learn Spanish.

 

[reffug]

Guys,

While I appreciate that you want to help the guy in his native language, those of us that don't read/speak Spanish might appreciate a "synopsis" of your post... at least so we can agree, disagree, or post additional information.

This is an English language forum.

-B-

Agreed please make your posts readable to all..............

Thanks management......lol

 

[adictoserie80toyota]

Thanks for yours coments


Miguel.

Gracias a todos por vuestros comentarios

Saludos

Miguel

 

[cruiser88]

no breaky

 

[Josh9180]

i have 207,000 miles on my 91' fj80 and have the original trans and no problems.

 

[cruiser88]

i have 207,000 miles on my 91' fj80 and have the original trans and no problems.

i have 320 thousand miles

 

[Shickalee]

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[Manuelsv]

Hola Miguel.

La mía dejo de funcionar a las 230,000 millas. Al final no sé que fue un amigo me vendio una transmisión usada que solo tenía 100,000 millas así que la cambie y al mismo tiempo mande el convertidor de torque a que lo renovaran. No sé porque exactamente fallo, pero si sé que el aceite que tenía estaba bastante viejo. Igual creo que 230,000 millas con mucho uso, carga pesada, y temperaturas extremas además de mucho uso en 4x4 (vivo en Arizona) La transmission vivió una larga vida y no era de esperar más. ¡Si le das buen mantenimiento y menos abuso no te preocupes por tu transmisión durara mucho más!