[TR] Toyota tranny conversion TR6?

[Frank Fisher]

if you are talking about the Australian bell housing from Delow, then i have
to say I'm very happy with it.
choosing the right W58 Toyota gear box will put
your shifter within an inch of your original shifter in a TR3.
also choosing
the "right" W58 will get your speedo to work within 4% of reality. when
checked against my GPS.
as i did all the rest of the machine work myself i was
extremely happy with the way mine turned out.
cant tell i have the 5 speed
unless you lie on your back under the car.
completely reliable for 3 years
now.
Frank

From: John & Pat Donnelly <pdonnel1 at san.rr.com>
To:
Triumphs at autox.team.net 
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 7:35 PM
Subject: Re:
[TR] Toyota tranny conversion TR6?

I installed Herman's conversion two years
ago after contemplating Quantum
Mechanic's overdrive as Geo did. You cannot
tell from the interior that's
it's in there, and it's really nice to have that
5th gear. I put the car
through it's paces every day. No hiccups.

I don't
have to worry about crappy reliability of the "A" OD, or huge
expense of
fixing it. Just looking at all the "A" overdrive e-postings about
problems,
fuses, solenoids, switching, etc, scares me. If the OD goes south
we're
talking weeks to get the car back on the road. That's not for me. I
have none
of that will all the bennies, it was a no-brainer. 

As I understand it the
Eagle conversion requires interior modifications, as
does the Australian
conversion, so this didn't make sense to me. Unless you
crawl underneath the
car the only one who knows it's there is me. If you
drove it you wouldn't know
that there's a fifth gear.

I think the value is actually increased! And
besides, the serial number
doesn't have the suffix of LO anyway, so I'm
holding true to the history!

Johnnie

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Tim
--
> 
> Not to recommend one approach over another but just to give you a look
> at
> some options...
> 
> Bill Close in Mesa offers a slightly different kit
for adapting the W58
> to
> a TR:  Eaglegate <http://www.eaglegatellc.com/>. 
I've heard good
> comments
> from a couple of drivers.  His approach is
perhaps simpler because it
> retains more of the original TR
clutch/throw-out/hydraulics.
> 
> What I went with, John Esposito's rebuilt
ODs:
> Quantumechanics<http://www.quantumechanics.com/categories.php?op=newind
> ex&catid=7>
> Perhaps the most costly approach but lets you say 'Laycock de
> Normanville'
> in everyday conversations.
> 
> Geo
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun
12, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Tim Gaines <mtgaines at presby.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> > ...I've
just about decided to abandon the O/D plan in favor of the 5-
> speed
> >
Toyota conversion...

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