What up with this?
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1911
chupacabra
South American truck. At least it's "no reserve". 3-speed seems like a typo or an un-knowledgeable person writing the listing.
brian
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Or a drivetrain swap with junkyard parts.
1911
chupacabra
Yeah, you're right; I forgot that the general market trucks still had three speeds and drum brakes all around - though it says that one has front discs like a US truck.
Living in the Past
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Three speed was used in some markets into the eighties. Some call them poverty pack. Most likely disc brakes were added I. The restore. Five speed would have been a nice upgrade.
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Ha! I’ve never heard the term poverty pack before! Learned something new today.
Maybe it’s just another urban legend, but over the four decades I’ve been doing this I have heard on several occasions that the general market preference for the three speed was due to its ‘in the field’ serviceability. Nothing needed beyond a hammer and a screwdriver to tear one down.
I can get that. But the pairing with the 1.95 t-case made this a dog compared to both its brethren and it’s heritage.
It’s this kind of logic that led to the FJ62!
4Cruisers
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And the answer to that is to replace the dog of an A440F with an H55f. Either in an FJ60 like my '86 or in an FJ62, the 3FE/H55f combo is a very decent set-up. As many here have said, the H55f really wakes up the 3FE.I can get that. But the pairing with the 1.95 t-case made this a dog compared to both its brethren and it’s heritage.
It’s this kind of logic that led to the FJ62!
Living in the Past
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Ha! I’ve never heard the term poverty pack before! Learned something new today.
Maybe it’s just another urban legend, but over the four decades I’ve been doing this I have heard on several occasions that the general market preference for the three speed was due to its ‘in the field’ serviceability. Nothing needed beyond a hammer and a screwdriver to tear one down.
I can get that. But the pairing with the 1.95 t-case made this a dog compared to both its brethren and it’s heritage.
It’s this kind of logic that led to the FJ62!
Really only issue the FJ62 is the power robbing A440F. Has to be worse in the 91/92 FJ80. There are are few others I wonder about. BJ45V/ and the BJ60.
I have that term "Poverty Pack" mentioned a few times. Hear the reason the three speed was kept was for ease or rebuilding anyway long before the poverty pack term. I know Spector sold the ten spline thirty-one teeth gear to use the later one piece transfer case with the three speed. At least they didn't have the 3:70 gears in that. But have searched to comfirm that.
Bear
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Advertised as "only one owner"--but he's not the one selling it to you--it's the second owner, who bought it for a song, and had it restored in Central/South America with third-world labor for a hands-off Barrett-Jackson bonanza. Gotta love truth in advertising. Probably "only sparingly used on a small coffee farm" by Juan Valdez and his familia.
BTW, 3-speeds were factory-installed on some 40-series until October 1982.
BTW, 3-speeds were factory-installed on some 40-series until October 1982.
