TouringMusician
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- Joined
- Jan 19, 2014
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO
I recently found myself the owner of a small 2 man carpentry company, and I?m getting tired of putting the interior of my poor Volvo through the abuse of hauling cut up decks to the dump.
So I started looking at little Toyota pickups (I had one once and love them) but I never was a 22r nerd like many are. About 10% of the Hiluxes here in Colorado have blown motors and the other 90% are wildly expensive. But there are blown motor 4x4 trucks for barely 4 digits?
I know the Toyota used the AW71, so it?s plausible to swap bellhousings and possibly have a b23x Hilux, correct? But has anybody ever heard of a way to connect the Toyota 5 speed manual to a Volvo block? I ran across some ancient forums in the Toyota world that mentioned an adapter, but seeing as this is such a rare swap, I?d doubt something exists?
P.S.-I know it would be easy enough to just use a Volvo transmission, but I was hoping to end up with a 4x4 truck, which would be way easier if the Toyota stuff could somehow work with the Volvo motor.
Anyway, I?m just wildly spitballing here, but I like Toyota Hiluxes and I like Volvo motors, and I don?t want to spend $7k+ on a 35 year old work truck.
Thanks!
So I started looking at little Toyota pickups (I had one once and love them) but I never was a 22r nerd like many are. About 10% of the Hiluxes here in Colorado have blown motors and the other 90% are wildly expensive. But there are blown motor 4x4 trucks for barely 4 digits?
I know the Toyota used the AW71, so it?s plausible to swap bellhousings and possibly have a b23x Hilux, correct? But has anybody ever heard of a way to connect the Toyota 5 speed manual to a Volvo block? I ran across some ancient forums in the Toyota world that mentioned an adapter, but seeing as this is such a rare swap, I?d doubt something exists?
P.S.-I know it would be easy enough to just use a Volvo transmission, but I was hoping to end up with a 4x4 truck, which would be way easier if the Toyota stuff could somehow work with the Volvo motor.
Anyway, I?m just wildly spitballing here, but I like Toyota Hiluxes and I like Volvo motors, and I don?t want to spend $7k+ on a 35 year old work truck.
Thanks!