3sgte S54 Diff/Axle free play, vid Options

[lagos]

Hmm, what year and model solara or camry used the e153 (sorry, i haven been keeping up on this issue at all).

[Culpable04]

all manual tranny V6 camrys and solaras have e153, also Lexus ES300, If I know you are driving up here to pick it up, I can soruce you one easily I mean, I got jim's in like what !? 30 mins ? lol

so let me know IF you are willing to drive up here and I'll help you find one.

[lagos]

Yeah, I looked on car-parts.com, and there seems to be a lot of them in the area for around 300 bucks. Its almost easier to get then another s54.
Didn't the camry also come with a 5sfe and s54 in certain years/trims?

I guess the hard part would be to source everything else. Im trying to get all of this done by mid may or so, and it seems like locating parts, and lack of money would hold me back from doing the conversion. It would be nice to have longer gearing though.

This post has been edited by lagos: Apr 18, 2009 - 12:15 PM

[Culpable04]

yes the camry also came with s54/5sfe combo, the e153 from a FWD car is still viable, " IF " we can find the tranny still in the car, we could get it along with axles. the hard thing to find would be the ST205 cables and the ST205 rear mount, and I have both , those are for my set-up but since mine will not be done anytime soon, I wouldn't mind letting them go to you if you were to go with a e153.


so think about what exactly you want to go with, I'm sure you can find a decent deal closer to you as well, but if you were to need help finding anything, I have more than 15 yards within 15 minutes drive from me

This post has been edited by Culpable04: Apr 18, 2009 - 7:10 PM

[lagos]

Hmmm

[Batman722]

I used a 2000 Solara e153 w/51K miles on it and after reading the jgreening "short axle" thread and talking to Corey I decided to use spacers just in case. Other people have not used spacers and have had no issues but I didn't want to take any chances.

I used IIRC 91 MR2 inners (with the MR2 axle carrier) and all-trac outers.
The spacers were easy to make, I just used spare parts from the left over axles and brought them to a local machine shop ($15 each).
I did have one issue though, this pic



the top is the MR2 axle and the bottom is s54. The groove where the snap ring is on the 2 axle needed to be in the same spot as the s54. So I brought them over to the machine shop and I had two options, either make a new snap ring groove closer to the end of the axle or shave the end off a bit. I wanted to make sure the axle sat snug inside the tranny so I had the top shaved down.

This is IMO because I'm using old axles with a newer tranny. If you use a 2 tranny then you wouldn't have that issue, everything would fit fine but you would have a 15 year old high mileage tranny.

I have had no tranny or axle problems problems.
If you want any details about the spacers or anything, just let me know.

[lagos]

Alright, that clears things up for me.
I have some thinking to do, and some deep analysis of my none existent budget to see if this is even possible.

I think what I'm going to do is take my motor out, and get the trans off. Then if the clutch is in good shape and I can keep it, I'll probably just go for an s54 to make things cheap. But if the clutch looks like it might be a good idea to change, I'll consider the e153 since that would just be a few misc parts away.

One thing that kind of turns me off from the e153 is the fact that if you ever have to replace the axle, for some reason, you'll be stuck doing your own rebuild. I had to replace my axles a few times over the years, and I really liked how I can just run to carquest or nappa, and come home with a fresh rebuild ready to go in.

[pittfirefighter]

One thing that kind of turns me off from the e153 is the fact that if you ever have to replace the axle, for some reason, you'll be stuck doing your own rebuild. I had to replace my axles a few times over the years, and I really liked how I can just run to carquest or nappa, and come home with a fresh rebuild ready to go in.

i am a little bit lost on this.. i haven't read the entire post but why wouldn't you be able to do this?? i used st185 axles on my CAMRY e153 (there are a lot of differences between the camry and mr2 e153's.... i don't know if you guys touched on this at all)... when i broke mine just went and picked up a new axle from advanced auto...

EDIT: after thinking for another min... its because mine has the MR2 LSD huh??

This post has been edited by pittfirefighter: Apr 20, 2009 - 2:37 AM

[lagos]

One thing that kind of turns me off from the e153 is the fact that if you ever have to replace the axle, for some reason, you'll be stuck doing your own rebuild. I had to replace my axles a few times over the years, and I really liked how I can just run to carquest or nappa, and come home with a fresh rebuild ready to go in.

i am a little bit lost on this.. i haven't read the entire post but why wouldn't you be able to do this?? i used st185 axles on my CAMRY e153 (there are a lot of differences between the camry and mr2 e153's.... i don't know if you guys touched on this at all)... when i broke mine just went and picked up a new axle from advanced auto...

EDIT: after thinking for another min... its because mine has the MR2 LSD huh??

You still have to make your own hybrid axle, with mixed and matched inners/outers and a spacer.
If camry axles just work out of the box, then I think that would be news to the entire community.

This post has been edited by lagos: Apr 20, 2009 - 6:27 AM