5le hilux - where's my 5th gear gone!? :(

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Rufflux
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5le hilux - where's my 5th gear gone!? :(

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I'm preparing to attempt a repair on my 5le hilux, which lost 5th gear during a drive. It was fine one minute and gone the next! 1st to 4th and reverse are fine, and I haven't driven it much since the fault occurred. I'm hoping it's a simple repair and will not require a major rebuild. I had the gearbox rebuilt less than 20,000km ago in Townsville Australia.
Someone has mentioned a circlip than may have shifted. Can anyone give me any advice or tips on this repair? I am in Papua New Guinea now and don't have a local workshop to do the job.
Thanks for any advice! Much appreciated!
Pete
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Re: 5le hilux - where's my 5th gear gone!? :(

Post by GRWLR ZN »

Good day Pete,
I see this is quite an old post... did you manage to have this issue sorted?
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Re: 5le hilux - where's my 5th gear gone!? :(

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Hi there, no not sorted yet. Haven't had the time to look at it! Any ideas how to go about the job? I'll. e going in a bit blind, never attempted a box repair before!
Thanks
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Re: 5le hilux - where's my 5th gear gone!? :(

Post by mcw »

Hi Pete
do not know what gearbox you have ,over here the the g series boxes 54 i think often broke a tooth on the 5 gear ,i know mine did at approx 390000 km, then the gaer still works just very noisy

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Re: 5le hilux - where's my 5th gear gone!? :(

Post by LouisZ »

your 5th gear broke 2 or more teeth unfortunately.
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