W59 Failure 3RZ-turbo

LTtaco · 11-24-2012, 08:12 PM

My W59 transmission failed in third gear tonight around 60mph while passing a slower moving motorist. The transmission only has 67K miles.

Does anybody know a good source for some high performance, high quality rebuild components?
Marline Crawler is the only place I've really heard of that works on Toyota transmissions.

Also, I would be interested in doing a Supra transmission swap, with a bell housing adapter. (Any experience with this, or alternative solution ideas would be appreciated)

HaVoCX · 11-24-2012, 08:30 PM

How many miles was on the w59 with the turbo ? Must've been ****ty in that black friday traffic

Greg_Canada · 11-24-2012, 08:35 PM

Marlin all the way

LTtaco · 11-25-2012, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by HaVoCX

How many miles was on the w59 with the turbo ? Must've been ****ty in that black friday traffic

Somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 miles. I believe my new clutch finally had began to break in where it would actually hold, and put the power to the ground in 3rd gear and beyond.

mitzu · 11-25-2012, 04:35 AM

Marlin seems to be one of your only options for a rebuild. Theres a couple writeups by Firdaddy and someone else that switched to a W58 out of a Supra. Im not sure how possible the R154 swap would be.

flatboy · 11-25-2012, 10:31 AM

Thats crappy to hear man

hamish_18 · 11-27-2012, 08:52 AM

wow you only lost 3rd??

LTtaco · 11-27-2012, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by hamish_18

wow you only lost 3rd??

Well, it all initiated with 3rd gear. Those sheared off teeth quickly made their way around to the other gears. I barely made it home.

hamish_18 · 11-27-2012, 12:53 PM

been there done that.. damnit anyways. but no sheared off teeth. interesting. feels weird though huh!

LTtaco · 11-30-2012, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by hamish_18

been there done that.. damnit anyways. but no sheared off teeth. interesting. feels weird though huh!

It did feel strange, I thought the motor blew up at first. It was a short burst of really loud pops that you could feel shake the truck like crazy at 60mph. After shifting to 4th all the was normal for a mile or so until those broken off teeth worked their way into the path of the other gears....it got messy. Let's just say reverse is now a forward gear.