MT Changing the Clutch

I think it took longer to re-size the photos than to actually change the clutch! That said I took some extra time to clean around the tunnel and remove and dirt or surface rust from the surrounding chassis and brake pipes and repaint with a smooth finish Metal paint (Triflow).Its a fairly simple jon and the FSM does pretty good except for two things.

1). Removing the gear levers - it may be somewhere else but not under the clutch section!

2). If you were to go step by step it would suggest removing the box then splitting the transfer box
I would suggest likemany others have done to remove the transfer box first -even with a two post lift, two people and a transmission jack it wasn't so easy.

3). I left the front stabilizer bar in to help support the engine/gearbox while we removed the top two bolts in the bell-housing. This worked ok but I should have removed before separating the box to make life a little easier.

The clutch went completely as I was holding out for a delivery from OZ with a relative, so went for a cheap solution from Milners costing around £175 inc VAT & Delivery. It seems to be ok and although it has two more springs than the Toyota clutch that came out it doesn't feel just as tight on the pedal. The OEM one that I removed was from Aisan and Toyota stamped.



Lots of photos so hopefully they will upload ok and in the right order.

not sure how to name these. the old forum let you caption each picture I think

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Nice pictures, thanks for taking the time to take them. This will be a job I am looking to do between Christmas and new year and was wondering where to get the clutch kit from. That kit should be okay shouldn't it. Valeo have been making them for a long time.
I like the painting you have done cleans it up well.

Cheers, Mark

Thanks mark,

I had hoped to caption the photos with explanations and tips as I did have to make a few hurried phone calls to Karl Webster but luckily his out of hours phone was still on! If you can see from the photos that my gearbox mount was sheared off and you can't really tell until the cross member is removed. I had also over-greased my drive shafts and you can see the crap that was flung round underneath as a result ( not to mention the leak from my power steering box). I like to use a proper metal paint as opposed to body shoot or waxoil but it does mean getting in with a few wire brush heads on the drill and grinder.

The two top bolts on the bell-housing (that everyone mentions as being difficult) are ok if you are using a lift but they could be tricky with the truck on the ground so even a pair of ramps would be a good help. You can see the discobobulator (SST 007) fashioned from every available socket extension that was needed though and I would recommend doing the job with a medium sized torque wrench for all the 17mm housing bolts as they are pretty tough to break with a regular ratchet.

One other tip is, that upon refitting the gearbox I warmed it up with a rag over the main gear selector and drained the old oil out. i was then able to fill it again through the gear selector socket rather than mess about with the side filler below.

Also if anyone can shed light on the missing box from uner the center console i assume it something to do with the alarm

You can inline the pics so you can add captions if that's what you mean but it does work differently and a bit more complicated than before. If you edit the post, click Manage Attachments, then look in the bottom of the dialog that comes up and you should see thumbnails of all the pictures attached to the post with little boxes to tick. Tick one then look for the 'insert inline' button (think that's right, going from memory though) and press it, that should put the picture inline in your post instead of at the end in a big block.

Good tip on changing the oil. I will do the same. If I haven't got a lift fitted in the yard by the time I do mine then I will have to do this with the truck up on 4 hgv axle stands so it shouldn't be too difficult. I hope.

Cheers, Mark

thanks Jon, I tried but I am not 'privileged' enough to have that option!

I liked the old website better....I mean the new landcruisers aren't necessarily better either!