FJ yet again – transmission

[artur]

Hiya,

After reading faq, it seems that I am having engine or transmission mounts failure.
Switching to drive or from drive to reverse makes a little shudder and squeak. Other than that it works great.
If it’s the case, do I replace all of them or just the problem one?
I will try record it tomorrow.

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[artur]

Interesting thing happened today. Please, bear with me.
I asked my wife, who never was behind a drive wheel in her whole life, to sit there and change automatic gear box from drive to reverse form me and vice verse.
I told her what to do and I dove under the car to check the sounds.
There was pretty much nothing except some quiet gear box operation.

Later, I started joking with her about how afraid I was she was to drive over me. She said she had the brake pedal pressed to the floor as hard as she could.
Then, it hit me.
What if it not a drive shaft or gear box but brakes.
The sound is almost the same as the sound of the brakes which about to let go. I never press brakes as hard but just enough to stop the car. The same with gear change. There is certain momentum that engine transfers though gear box to the wheels, so if the brakes aren’t locked as hard, could the sound be the brakes that slip just a bit?

Artur

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