Originally Posted by Bearcat74
I found a nice sammi all original for $2000, it will need new tires. It's pretty slick, my Tacoma is a 5speed but I just don't care for clutching trying to ease up a slick hill with jump up rocks.


I also found a nice 1990 Sidekick 3 speed auto trans for $1400, it will need new tires. I like the idea of the auto but it looks like the low range on the auto's isn't real low.


Bearcat,

Not sure about for the autobox, but you can definitely get "after market" gears for both the Sidekick, Sammi and the newer Jimny for the manual trany.

In fact some conversions allow you to fit the gear box from the Sammi into a Jimny for instance.

Some of the conversions drop all the ratios in the box, while others just drop the Low gears.

If you go this route, you need to consider if you intend fitting taller tires as these will need to be taken into account also.

Regards,

Peter


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