It's not actually for me. I'm knee deep in a turbo 2fe swap for my 80. I do still have a 4bt in my bronco crawler and am looking to pick up another to balance and mess around with.
I have a buddy with an 80 with a blown motor but after a year of trying to find an OM606 where your first born...
That strangely enough is the conclusion I came to. It seems all the guys that break things are using the nv4500.
Personally i'd like to do it and keep the a440..... they are much beefier than any GM or Dodge trans from the same era. But mine has a bunch of miles and to do an upgraded Tq...
Yeah I have a 4bt so I know about the vibes.... if it was going in the 80 i'll be balancing it anyway. I'm just more worried about the jackhammer torque effect on the diffs, and other parts. Just a turbo swap, fuel pin and turn of the screw and you'll be near 500 ft/lbs on a 4bt in no time.
So 4bt and 6bt swappers.... how is all the toyota components holding up to the sledge hammer torque of these motors. I've contemplated swapping my 4bt in if i'm not in love with the turbo 3fe i'm building currently. But a guy who is very knowledgeable with diesel swaps in cruisers has warned me...
Do you have to cut the output shaft on the diesel adapters adapter? I know you have to do this one AA one to the split case so i'm hoping if I do go that way I wouldn't have to replace the output shaft with a full length one again to match up to the HF2AV
So for those wanting to go NV4500 in their swap is there a way around the leaky adapter to the split case?? Already seen one swap where someone toasted their trans because of this. I'm currently looking at a cruiser that already has the swap but has this adapter in it and would want to rectify...