i am luck on htat part, this one is good as it sits. the guy is an a&p and rebuilt it about 6 years ago. it has lived hte easy life of being a ranch truck and just running up and down the senderos and then coming into town once in a while

 

Okay so I'd really like to get away with using zero adapter plates for the trans and tcase.

Will the t18 bolt up to the 5.0?

I'd like to use the Dana 300 twin stick...but then again I don't want to pay the $500 for the adapter plate.

At any rate...if I didn't use the 300 id like to go with something that will bolt to the t18. 205? Keep in mind I'll be putting down around 320 ft lb of torque.

 

Im doing a similar swap, only my donor vehicle is my girls former daily driver 00 Mountaineer with the 5.0. Im definitely going a different route than most but wont be starting that for a little bit. Just got the body off, replacing all of the sheet metal and I still have some ideas to work out. Springs top replace, etc. Im curious, what have people done for the tcase shifter? Somehow re used the YJ linkage? SOmething else? It seems like in most cases the shifter would end up under the drivers seat. Trying to picture it in my head but its hard to with the body off.

 

Collin, a 205 will hold anything you can throw at it.....90 percent of the pull trucks have them. I am using one on my GE project and that honey should do 550 or so at the crank.

All you need is a SBF bellhousing and your good to go as all the ford 4 speeds use the same flange circle.

Zero, most of us go back to the 80's and 70's for the transfercases simply because they are easier to adapt and stronger. If you used a 205 for instance, you just use the ford shifter and it puts it right in the same place as a stock YJ one sits

 

Well then the 205 it is! Seems to me it will be fairly cheap to find.

 

Okay I'm picking up a 205 tomorrow. Came out of a '77 highboy.

Then hopefully Sunday I'll be picking up an NP435 with the granny low.

So the bell housing....where the heck can I find one?

 

if its a 77 highboy you cant use it.....they were divorced and you dont have near enough room for that.

Bell housing for manual or hydraulic clutch?

 

Yea that's what I said...but this highboy does in fact have a married 205 behind its c6. I verified pics.

He said the previous owner did some restoration. Whatever.

At any rate, I think I'd like to go hydraulic. Is that even possible? Would I be able to use my old hydraulic stuff?

 

Dude I don't get it. There's so many different bellhousings! Is there a way to look up the casting number?

 

ok then someone has denutted the highboy lol.....regardless as long as its married it will work for you. The only bell housing you can use is one from a 83-87 F250 with a windsor in it. I have some pics of mine in my RJ thread. They are really hard to find I can tell you that. You have to get different hydraulics and parts mike is working on that ratio for me right now.....also you have to make sure you get the right clutch, which I am also working on right now

 

Holy crap that is a long thread. Would you be able to look at the casting number on that bell?

 

I can, its an E3TZ something

 

Got my 205 tcase today.

11 / 23 / 78 is the casting date.

It was pretty caked in grime. Some elbow grease and i got 'er pretty clean.

 

Got the front end all freshened up a bit today.

 

Any opinions?

Ford V8 Engine Mounts for Jeeps

Novak's $230 mounts...

(P/N 713006) | Advance Adapters

Advance's $150 mounts....

 

Why doncha just make your own....I have 25 bucks in mine using these

Energy Suspension HD 30.4015 Cab Mounts - Peterbilt

 

I saw that on your thread. Its an option still.

Apparently the NP435 trans has a different spline output than the NP205's input? Any idea how I can make this work?

 

Ive never run into that, what did the 435 come out of?

 

I guess it came out of an old f100.

He said its a 28 spline output and my tcase is 31 spline input.

 

2wd then, you need a 4x4 one or swap out the main shaft

 

Yea. Sucked. It was cheap too.

Sanded down an primed the firewall today.

 

Found this yesterday. He says the top cover is aluminum. NP435!

Only thing is...the pic looks like a 2wd trans? He says its 4x4....with a married case. Maybe I'm confused. Need input!

Also...finished painting the firwall on Saturday. Looks good!

 

thats a 4x4, but out of a highboy. Notice the 4x4 shifter on the side...that's highboy 66-77 only. You need one with a married case to be 31 spline input....either out of 66-77 F150 or 78-79 F250/350.

 

I thought so... The seller kept trying to tell me that it's a married setup.

 

Here's a married one