Celicast185
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Hello to everyone!
This is Gerald from Peru, I'm the very proud owner of a 1992 ST185 Toyota Celica GtFour RC (one of only 3 originals here in my country), the car is like my son I love it so much and I want to keep it in my family for ever. For that reason, I was searching for some information about Toyota's All trac system, in order to understand it very well and avoid possible damages. There is not so much info on the web.
I know the system has 5 main components: Front, center and rear differentials, transmission and the transfer case, but the main thing I need to know is how much strength is this last piece? or which part suffers most by the misuse? I have to confessed that I have done two terrible things to my car: First, when I bought it 4 years ago, I took it to the mandatory vehicle inspection and I totally forgot that it had 4wd system! :bangshead: (it was my first time with this baby and also the Technicians were just as stupid as me because they didn't realize too :withstupid: ) and the car was tested in a 2wd common line to inspect the brakes (means that only 2 wheels of the same axle spin and the others 2 are stopped, first the front and then the rear wheels). I realize myself of that mistake the next day, but there was no sign of failure in the car, I reviewed system with a mechanic and it worked properly. This year I was on a circuit and I blocked the rear wheels to take a very tight corner :doh: (just one time because it was a very risky situation and I needed to avoid a crash). I was very afraid of the system has some damages, but the car still running pretty good, until today there is no noise of differentials, transmission, nothing strange, so that's the reason of my question, I always heard that this bad practices could kill the 4wd systems and I want to keep mine in perfect conditions. Do I need to check any special part of the system? maybe something internal? :shrug:
Thanks to all, any information would be very appreciated! :notworthy:
Gerald
P.D. I would like to post some pictures of my car, but I don't know how to post them here, maybe in another section...
This is Gerald from Peru, I'm the very proud owner of a 1992 ST185 Toyota Celica GtFour RC (one of only 3 originals here in my country), the car is like my son I love it so much and I want to keep it in my family for ever. For that reason, I was searching for some information about Toyota's All trac system, in order to understand it very well and avoid possible damages. There is not so much info on the web.
I know the system has 5 main components: Front, center and rear differentials, transmission and the transfer case, but the main thing I need to know is how much strength is this last piece? or which part suffers most by the misuse? I have to confessed that I have done two terrible things to my car: First, when I bought it 4 years ago, I took it to the mandatory vehicle inspection and I totally forgot that it had 4wd system! :bangshead: (it was my first time with this baby and also the Technicians were just as stupid as me because they didn't realize too :withstupid: ) and the car was tested in a 2wd common line to inspect the brakes (means that only 2 wheels of the same axle spin and the others 2 are stopped, first the front and then the rear wheels). I realize myself of that mistake the next day, but there was no sign of failure in the car, I reviewed system with a mechanic and it worked properly. This year I was on a circuit and I blocked the rear wheels to take a very tight corner :doh: (just one time because it was a very risky situation and I needed to avoid a crash). I was very afraid of the system has some damages, but the car still running pretty good, until today there is no noise of differentials, transmission, nothing strange, so that's the reason of my question, I always heard that this bad practices could kill the 4wd systems and I want to keep mine in perfect conditions. Do I need to check any special part of the system? maybe something internal? :shrug:
Thanks to all, any information would be very appreciated! :notworthy:
Gerald
P.D. I would like to post some pictures of my car, but I don't know how to post them here, maybe in another section...