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NPR Tranny to toyota Tcase adapter? .......... Every cabover I've driven had a realy nice low 1st gear.what trans is in the NPR?
Can you just use that?
If there was a city I didn’t see it lol, was literally on “Landfill Dr.” when buying this truck, just some trailer park. Guy was super nice tho, he bought it for $2,500 drove it for a while and wanted to break even, don’t think he knew what he really had in terms of engine potential.Did you enjoy your visit to Clay City?
I believe it is the MSA5D, info from a while ago on mud about doing what you’re talking about states…what trans is in the NPR?
Can you just use that?
As much as I want to get things running… I want to do them properly. I feel like if I rush things, it will end up screwed up and I’ll just have to take apart everything later down the line and re do it the right way. Honestly I love the idea of using the engine and tranny. I think I’d have to regear my diffs cause I’d like to be able to go 65mph comfortably and with 5th gear being 1:1 with 4:11 in the rear I know it would be revving super high at that speed.NPR Tranny to toyota Tcase adapter? .......... Every cabover I've driven had a realy nice low 1st gear.
Or if in a time crunch to go back to school and just have to drive that troopy: Commit the sin of dropping the Isuzu engine and tranny in and run it rwd only for the fall semester till you get everything figured out and lined up.
I have spent alot of time researching swaps for my BJ73. I found that there is not a great variety of adapters for our particular T case, fine spline input H55F...There's alot of information on IH8MUD, but sometimes it is hard to search and find it/find it again. It might be easier to fabricate an adapter for Isuzu bellhousing to H55F tranny as opposed to an adapter from isuzu engine to H55 bellhousing. J.. does have the great bennefit of having the parts in his hand to touch/look at /measure and figure out how to get it together. Pretty bold to dive in like he is not knowing for sure what lies ahead.
Yep, I kept thinking while driving back just how good of a truck this would be, me and my dad could turn it into a car hauler for all of our nonfunctional cruisers, could be AMAZING. But its just so far gone, unsafe, especially while carrying a load.I would feel bad pulling apart a truck just for the engine, but it looks like that ones chassis is at end of life anyways, so very nice! From what I've read, you may just have one of the best diesels of this size ever made. I'm excited to see where/how this goes!
Sadly not, at least not one I have access to. Other friends at other schools were talking about helping me out with their schools stuff, could be cool.Your school has a Student Shop?
Maker Space with software to lay out bellhousing adapter? 3d model printing?
I drove by UVA’s student shop one day and saw a 60 series with the bonnet up.
Truck owner ( an English major) was working with 2 excited techie kids using water jet cutter to make frame gussets.
Sadly not, at least not one I have access to. Other friends at other schools were talking about helping me out with their schools stuff, could be cool.
Reading more into everything, I don't know how possible it is for me to add a transfercase to the Isuzu transmission. Only real way I've seen is if I have a divorced transfer case or doing heavy mods with a land rover tcase, id just prefer not to go through all of that just to use a tranny that doesn't even have an overdrive. Might just be able to make an adapter from the Isuzu engine and bellhosuing to just the transmission, much smaller and less holes to deal with. Then use a 13BT clutch disc (for added power) in combination with the Isuzu pressure plate/flywheel. That is if the Toyota cutch would work with the Isuzu parts... robmobile also mentioned I would need a custom sized pilot bearing if everything else checked out, don't know how to source that but I feel like it would be pretty easy compared to everything else I'm taking on.
Sorry for a hijack...I am in the middle of a 4BD1T swap in a FJ62 right, you are definitely going to want a different exhaust manifold/turbo. There is no the isuzu setup will clear your brake booster
Sorry for a hijack...
The statement that the stock Isuzu 4BD2/1 manifolds and turbos don't clear the 60 Series brake booster is incorrect. See below.View attachment 3088778View attachment 3088780View attachment 3088781