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by **Vertigo** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:12 pm

i cant figure out what gbox my ae80 has. its a 1984 and came with a 2A carb engine.

anyone have a website listing the different toyota gboxes?

by **Silent Knight** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:24 pm

It should say on the Vin plate on the firewall what kind of gearbox it is.

Otherwise gearboxes normally have a build plate on the side of them that says what type they are.

by **Vertigo** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:33 pm

unfortunately mine does not id it on the VIN plate.

guess ill have to poke my head into the engine bay..

by **Vertigo** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:42 pm

cant see any obvious markings...
anyone know of a website with this info?

ooh, btw its a FWD

by **Silent Knight** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:45 pm

This may or may not be of help to you...

http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/pit/9975/dataBySubject/Gearboxes.html

by **Punter** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:51 pm

If its a jap import it will have the box code on the firewall, but since its a '84 I would say its NZ new, which gives you a string of numbers and letters meaningless to us mortals.

AE 80's are FWD right, if so I would say you have a c50

by **Vertigo** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:59 pm

ok, thats a good start.

must be one of these, and c50 is looking likely... but still not sure.

by **Punter** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:27 pm

Does it have a bulge for the starter only on one side or both??

by **Vertigo** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:45 pm

i think on only one side.. will check

yep, definately only on one side (front side)

by **Punter** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 6:51 pm

Then its a c50, IIRC the c52/c56's have a bulge on both sides.

red car · by pc » Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:06 pm

This has been much confusion for me also. I can get the gear ratios for lots of gearboxes, but can't get anything that matches up the gearbox type, i.e C52 to the number stamped on the gearbox i.e 6325865. So without an adequate build plate there is no way of reading what the gearbox is. NZ new cars seem to have the gearbox type 'thames' F@#$!!!

Has anyone got documentation on how this system works?

by **Distrb** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:28 pm

Punter wrote:IIRC the c52/c56's have a bulge on both sides.

Some do... some dont. Have yet to find what causes there to be one on both sides....

by **Punter** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:08 pm

Distrb wrote:Some do... some dont. Have yet to find what causes there to be one on both sides....

hmmmmm... well that sucks.

Anyone know how to tell them apart then?

by **Vertigo** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:35 pm

if punter is correct, i would say an older car, like an 84, would have a c50. from that you could probably work out what gearbox a particular model would be most likely to have, but this method is by no means accurate.

red car · by pc » Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:02 pm

I think Punter is incorrect also. I have a gearbox which the build plate said was a C52, and it only has one starter motor 'bulge' on the front.

AFAIK if you don't have an accurate build plate to match the gearbox, your stuffed.

by **Punter** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:54 am

pc wrote:I think Punter is incorrect also.

I was just going by what I have seen of c series boxes, which is obviously not much :oops:

by **Quint** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:00 pm

take the gearbox out and count the output shafts revolutions campared to the input shafts revs

I can get the gear ratios for lots of gearboxes

match it up, and u'll be away, bugger of a way to do it, but if you need to know. *shrug*

red car · by pc » Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:18 pm

Yep... if you know the final drive/ratios etc. that is the only accurate way that I know of.

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