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I didn't have to do anything for steering. I loosened up the steering shaft and watched it while I lifted the body. It only moved a 16th or so.

Interesting, all the research I did before my install led me to believe they were marked for AUS market. I installed mine as such and have no lean.

I removed the racks purely out of fear that there might be rust under there, there wasn't but I like it without em. As far as temps go they should decrease the farther you move the body from the heat source.

Nothing out of the ordinary really, just a bunch of nuts and bolts. Kind of a pain in the ass doing it by yourself but I needed some extra room for the 37's. I do hate the bumper gap so I guess I need to get off my butt and make some plate bumpers. For the radiator brackets I basically just put...

The starter contacts will only cure half the problem and that's the clicking instead of starting. The starter running while the engine is running and the engine running with the key off are common symptoms of a bad ignition switch.

So I've been doing a little bit of reading and stop me if I'm off base but it seems that the 4.5L is rated at 275ft/lbs and most road 4bt's are in the 265-340 ft/lb range unless they've been turned up. So is there any real concern of a stock or slightly turned up 4cyl diesel toasting these trans...

There have to be at least a handful of A343's out there living behind turbo or s/c 4.5's, I wonder how well they're holding up? I imagine the conditions would be very similar to those behind many of these diesels.

Don, That seems to be some pretty good evidence for the strength of that trans. Can you or anybody else tell me whether the A343 is built similarly?

To get back on topic, Rambler how long do you think it will be before you make an adapter and are able to check a toy trans behind a diesel?

Maybe I'm slow but when I search their site for HF2A adapters they show nothing for the nv4500.

Really, I haven't been able to locate those adapters. Could you shoot me a pm with that info? I guess at this point I'm still weighing options but auto is my first choice as a 5spd would exclude my wife from driving the cruiser.

I would love to keep the auto, not real crazy about the thought of using a compushift unit. What do you think it would take to adapt an NV4500 to the LC transfer case, assuming the auto isn't up to the task?

I'm quite interested in seeing the outcome of your research as I'd like to retain an auto trans when I swap in a cummins but unless you guys prove otherwise I don't have faith in the toy trans living for any period of time behind a diesel. I've pretty much come to grips with the fact that I'm...

Wheels are sold.

That's odd, I came up with drawtite 118357:confused: