Well, the project has finally started. I bought everything I needed for the swap and tore into it this weekend. I flew out to AZ last Wednesday to check out the goods, crate them up, and ship them back home to CA.
Here it is after I picked it up in CA. It's a '99 4R70W with the AA adpater and a elec shift BW1354.
Here it is all good and cleaned up nearly ready to go in.
A close up of the bw1354 attached to the AA adapter.
As always, it's a tight fit getting into the garage. My buddy, Asp84, came out from AZ to oversee (actually do
) the swap.
Here's the '99 4R70W with the '96 BW4404 I took out of the truck next to the new tranny and 1354. Both units were within an inch and a half to being the same length.
New transmission going back in.
This is me cutting up a piece of the old BBQ grill on the side of the house. I needed some metal to fab up the new cross member bracket.. brackets.
And as usual... I ran into a few problems. Apparently, AA makes two different length adapters. One 5" (that Stadx2 used) and one 9" (which is what this package came with). Now, this makes things very interesting. The extra 4" pushes the transfer case back close to the gas tank. So close infact, that the shift motor cannot be bolted on. Doh. So, this leads me with only one other option. Mechanical shift 1354. Hee haw.. that's really what I wanted anyways (if I couldn't do what Stadx2 did with the 100% stock like integration).
So I'll be trying to get my hands on one in the next couple days. I had to buy a V6 driveshaft because the V6 transfer cases have smaller u-joint flange dealios than the V8s. Also, the V6 drive shaft will have to be shortened 1.5" to fit. Alec (Asp84) thinks his old 1st gen front driveshaft will fit perfectly with this setup. So he'll FedEx it over tomorrow and we'll see about that.
So basically, it will look like this but with a nice big shifter sticking up through the floor. I think i'll dig it.
As you can see, I have plenty of room to rig something up that'll work.
Hopefully, I'll be testing this out at Truckhaven this year. We'll see.
I'll include more pics and a parts list here soon.
Here it is after I picked it up in CA. It's a '99 4R70W with the AA adpater and a elec shift BW1354.
Here it is all good and cleaned up nearly ready to go in.
A close up of the bw1354 attached to the AA adapter.
As always, it's a tight fit getting into the garage. My buddy, Asp84, came out from AZ to oversee (actually do
) the swap.
Here's the '99 4R70W with the '96 BW4404 I took out of the truck next to the new tranny and 1354. Both units were within an inch and a half to being the same length.
New transmission going back in.
This is me cutting up a piece of the old BBQ grill on the side of the house. I needed some metal to fab up the new cross member bracket.. brackets.
And as usual... I ran into a few problems. Apparently, AA makes two different length adapters. One 5" (that Stadx2 used) and one 9" (which is what this package came with). Now, this makes things very interesting. The extra 4" pushes the transfer case back close to the gas tank. So close infact, that the shift motor cannot be bolted on. Doh. So, this leads me with only one other option. Mechanical shift 1354. Hee haw.. that's really what I wanted anyways (if I couldn't do what Stadx2 did with the 100% stock like integration).
So I'll be trying to get my hands on one in the next couple days. I had to buy a V6 driveshaft because the V6 transfer cases have smaller u-joint flange dealios than the V8s. Also, the V6 drive shaft will have to be shortened 1.5" to fit. Alec (Asp84) thinks his old 1st gen front driveshaft will fit perfectly with this setup. So he'll FedEx it over tomorrow and we'll see about that.
So basically, it will look like this but with a nice big shifter sticking up through the floor. I think i'll dig it.
As you can see, I have plenty of room to rig something up that'll work.
Hopefully, I'll be testing this out at Truckhaven this year. We'll see.
I'll include more pics and a parts list here soon.
