DarioGMC
Newbie
Hi everybody!!! I didn't write for a while but we're still working on the truck, so now it's time to write an update.
In July we made a big order on Rockauto, 1700 euros for something like 45 parts...everything for the manual conversion + everything for the complete front end rebuild + a set of KYB Monomax for 1-3" lift. We bought the NV4500 4wd mainshaft and 5th gear nut from Allstate gear.
I can say we've been satisfied with every seller.
So the first thing we did is the 2wd to 4wd conversion on the NV4500, to be honest, i thought it would have been a more difficult job...but. at the end of the day, we've been able to do it without any problem and just in few hours.
My brother also had an "art attack" and invented a solution for the famous 5th gear problem i'll show you in the pics.
As you probably know, between the 5th gear and the 5th gear nut there's a vibration dampener or a spacer, so my brother designed this special spacer. The idea is the following :
there's a high wall tube outside and inside another tube splitted in two halfs. As you can see from the pics it has a profile that matches the shaft profile just to stay in place the best way possible. If the 5th gear happen to slip back it pushes on the splitted tube that tries to open but it pushes against the big thick tube so it can't go anywhere (or at least this is the idea).
I realise my explaination is a bit ******.....i tried to do my best...if i could write about it in Italian it would be ways easier.
Then we also spent a ton of hours on the fron end, we replaced everything and restored the front part of the frame and all the control arms.
We also tried to make two new torsion bar keys because the truck is lifted (in a crappy way by the previous owner) but there was too much tension so we went back to the stock ones tried to crank not too much. We also made a couple of spacers for the upper ball joints so now we have a good working angle. We are very happy for the result, the truck is leveled and finally it has shocks with the correct lenght. Unfortunally at the moment i can't find the pics.
At the moment we are at a very important stage : we have to uninstall the transmission from the truck. We started yesterday with the transfer case....we thought removing the gearbox crossmember was enough.....but after a lot of cussing we discovered we had to remove the other one, the one where there are the torsion bar keys. So next week i hope we are able to remove everything.
For this post i think it's enough. See you for the next update!!!
And i want to say thank you to a lot of people here because i've found a lot of infos here and there for buying the right parts!!
In July we made a big order on Rockauto, 1700 euros for something like 45 parts...everything for the manual conversion + everything for the complete front end rebuild + a set of KYB Monomax for 1-3" lift. We bought the NV4500 4wd mainshaft and 5th gear nut from Allstate gear.
I can say we've been satisfied with every seller.
So the first thing we did is the 2wd to 4wd conversion on the NV4500, to be honest, i thought it would have been a more difficult job...but. at the end of the day, we've been able to do it without any problem and just in few hours.
My brother also had an "art attack" and invented a solution for the famous 5th gear problem i'll show you in the pics.
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As you probably know, between the 5th gear and the 5th gear nut there's a vibration dampener or a spacer, so my brother designed this special spacer. The idea is the following :
there's a high wall tube outside and inside another tube splitted in two halfs. As you can see from the pics it has a profile that matches the shaft profile just to stay in place the best way possible. If the 5th gear happen to slip back it pushes on the splitted tube that tries to open but it pushes against the big thick tube so it can't go anywhere (or at least this is the idea).
I realise my explaination is a bit ******.....i tried to do my best...if i could write about it in Italian it would be ways easier.
Then we also spent a ton of hours on the fron end, we replaced everything and restored the front part of the frame and all the control arms.
We also tried to make two new torsion bar keys because the truck is lifted (in a crappy way by the previous owner) but there was too much tension so we went back to the stock ones tried to crank not too much. We also made a couple of spacers for the upper ball joints so now we have a good working angle. We are very happy for the result, the truck is leveled and finally it has shocks with the correct lenght. Unfortunally at the moment i can't find the pics.
At the moment we are at a very important stage : we have to uninstall the transmission from the truck. We started yesterday with the transfer case....we thought removing the gearbox crossmember was enough.....but after a lot of cussing we discovered we had to remove the other one, the one where there are the torsion bar keys. So next week i hope we are able to remove everything.
For this post i think it's enough. See you for the next update!!!
And i want to say thank you to a lot of people here because i've found a lot of infos here and there for buying the right parts!!
