All,

Trying to find the differences in the TC for 00-04 years, V6 AT's. I have found some TC's at some local junkyards for around $250, only they are 00' and 01's. I was told by a shop that these have manual speed sensors and that mine (04) has electric. Would these TC work for my truck or would I need to change something else out? Was also just informed by a junkyard that the 04 is not interchangalbe with any other year. Anyone heard this and why?

Calmini says the TC Gear set is the same for the 01 and the 04 so me buying Dan's Gears for his X should work fine.

On hold with the Nissan dealer now to see what they can tell me.

Thanks.

Well, after 15 minutes the part department at the dealer came back and transferred me to service. They said the difference is the 04 has electric speed sensor and that is why they are not interchangalbe with other years. They said you cannot swap the sensor's because the gearing is different.

I guess my question would then be, if I did go with a older TC, what other mods would I have to do to in order to use it (just go without a speedo!)?

you should be able to use any 00-04 T case you can change out the sensor swap yours in for the one that is on the T case you buy. Speaking of T cases I have an Extra one for sale will take 150.00+ Shipping if your interested in it.

Where's Brent on this one?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by lmhin:
you should be able to use any 00-04 T case you can change out the sensor swap yours in for the one that is on the T case you buy. QUOTE]

Both the dealer and the shop I talked to about installing the gears said you cannot just swap out the sensor, the electric sensor gears will not sync up with the manual gears.

I guess if you change out the gears also, then that would work, but that defeats the purpose of having a spare to swap with installed unit, would still have to dissamble the installed unit to swap sensor gears with the upgraded unit. What I am trying to do is keep my truck from being down more than one day.

There was no gear/cable on my Xterra...it was just 3 plug in wires....

Not sure.

I put a cable t-case on my truck and just slipped the electric sensor in the hole the cable assembly came out of. It works great and the speedo gears were the same. This was on a 95 t-case while my 98 t-case is 100% electrical except for the shifting.

You CAN swap the mech. sensor for the elec. sensor. The mech sensor is longer and skinnier than the elec. one but with the elec. one being a little bigger in dia. it has enough of a tooth to engage the drive gear. I did this in my lastest swap. My 00 has an elec. speed sensor on the trans and the 01 transfer case that I put in it had an elec speed sensor. The 96 had a mech one but they all interchanged.
JIM

Hmmm... I wonder why the dealer and the junkyard say they are not interchangeable. So, I guess the thing to do is buy it and try it huh?

let us know how it goes.. i was wondering the same thing for my 4x4 conversion..

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Originally posted by gumybob:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by lmhin:
you should be able to use any 00-04 T case you can change out the sensor swap yours in for the one that is on the T case you buy. QUOTE]

Both the dealer and the shop I talked to about installing the gears said you cannot just swap out the sensor, the electric sensor gears will
not sync up with the manual gears.

I guess if you change out the gears also, then that would work, but that defeats the purpose of having a spare to swap with installed unit, would still have to dissamble the installed unit to swap sensor gears with the upgraded unit. What I am trying to do is keep my truck from being down more than one day.

all I can say is when I converted to 4x4 I am using 2 differant year/model componets and everything just bolted up I have an 00 Frontier motor an 01 Frontier transmission and an 01 Xterra transmission the only differance I found was the speed sensor and I just swap them out. every thing works great.

the speed sensor is the little curly tan plastic gear near the ass end of the t-case, right?
i have an 02 frontier i am doing a 4x4 conversion on, and im pretty sure my tcase is from an 01 xterra.

I'm running a T-case from a early 90's pathfinder in my 2003. They are all the same. The only thing you need to do is use the censors (speed, and the other two that are in there, forgot what they do) that are currently attached to the TC on your truck. The older TC actually have a thicker chain in them so they don't wear out as quick. There are two us us CO folks that did this at the same time and neither of us have had any issue.

Oh yeah, and because of slight shifter differences, you need to use the shifting linkage from the older vehicle. There is i think a 1/2" difference in length.

I also have my stock t-case available for $150 its from a 2003 MT Frontier. Has less than 50K mi.

The speed sensor is one difference, the other is that the chain got narrower for 2001 or so. Other than that and the 4-cyl/V6 difference, you can swap them around. There's also a minor difference in the front cover plate between the manual and automatic but that's easily dealt with.