You might want to spend some time looking into exactly what he wants at this point and come up with a plan for the long game.The owner of the Cruiser would like to put a diesel in it at some point
For my diesel swap 55 I'm using a NV4500 5 speed trans and a Toyota split case transfer.
I documented most of the parts for the diesel swap here, Target carrier
And another with some good info, Mort's 76 FJ55