Wish i had of come across this thread two days ago.................. Why I hear you asking?
Welllllllllllllllllllll, was coming home from the barrington tops on sunday night and was just cruising at about 100 or so towing my parents little jayco pop up caravan (around 1500kg's im guessing) and most hills i came to i could power up without having to down change due to the chip and my re gearing with my 33's. At no stage was i being silly or smashing the gears etc but at one point i had to down change to 4th for a hill and it didnt want to come out of 5th
I first thought the clutch was on its way out and not disengaging properly and hense the load on the gear still and it not wanting to come out.
So i applied a bit more pressure and 'pop' out it came into neutral. I double shuffled and it slid perfectly into 4th, up into 3rd and back again, 4th then into 5th fine. Cant be the clutch i thought as it wouldnt discriminate between the gears.
So...... Has anyone else actually had this problem? If so what was it and was it expensive? Because the way its looking now with reading this seeing how much smaller 5th gear is and how its driven by a smaller drive shaft (is this actually the case with the new hilux's??) im wishing i had of known this before heading off.
Any help/advice would be appreciated.
Cheers, Josh