I have been running a juiced up 6BT since 2015 and the only thing I broke was a rear driveshaft. This was climbing a steep wall at the end of the hole in the rock trail and I gave it a little too much skinny pedal. Axles, xfer case and diffs have all held up.
If you drive like a teenager...
A bunch of us have used Dustins kit or parts of it, others have done the swap without his components. Even with all of his parts, there is still a decent amount of custom work you need to do when performing a cummins conversion.
you should bring these questions over to one of our build threads rather than clutter up this thread. The purpose of this thread is to display the finished product of your 80 series diesel conversion. Come ask your questios on my swap thread if you like.
The advanced adapter split case adapter does leak between the trans and transfer case.haven't heard of a fix for that.
A few of us have an NV4500 to HF2AV adapter from Diesel Adapters. The 1st version is this didn't seal the find in the trans, and caused thegogglesdonothing swap to burn up the...
I'll let you know when I get there. I am still working on my conversion.
I do have a 24V ram with 4.10 gears and 37's and it drives like it did with stock 31's and 3.54 gears.
If you want to stick with 35's or 315's then you may want to re-gear to 3.54 or 3.73. You can get the gears from Marks in Australia. If you want to go up to 37's like myself and Wheelingnoob are, then 4.10's should be perfect.