Anyone know if I can use a 5 speed column shift from a Hiace with 18r motor?

In the future will upgrade to a 7K and will need the overdrive for FWY use.

Edited November 2, 201114 yr by diegoh

easy answer: no.

 

hard answer: you could adapt a W50 with a lot of head scratching (your box is a W40) but youd be pioneering the job i think. Unless someone here has been there already??

 

pretty well certain the hiace box will be a similar box to earlier hiluxes so wont do the job.

Its lists online that cargo vehicles using the K motor are L40 gearboxes

So that would mean the L50/52 would fit?

 

http://members.iinet.net.au/~stepho/engcodes.htm

every liteace ive pulled apart has a W-40 box, stop reading everything online and go ad look at a few cars in person at the wreckers....

As for "stop reading everything online" ill take that what I'm reading

from you is also in the same boat.

I spend most of my time at wreckers but liteaces arent common anymore

at the usual places I venture. The last one I owned was 11 years ago so

its been a while and are bullet proof so never bothered playing with them.

 

The only ones I remember did resemble a w40 at first sight but apart from

the different shifting mechanism rear extension housing they seemed different.

 

If it is a W40, I can easily use a w50 to combine the 2.