Ah yes, what a difference a day makes, I’ve learned a bunch since yesterday. You sound like you were paying attention in class Big. I talked with Steve at Advance Adaptors this morning for about a half hour and that's pretty close to the same story that he gave me. I'm going to keep my eyes open for my buddy who wants to make some changes, like a 235, transmission swap etc. I need to Zero in on exactly which years Dodge we should be looking for. If I understand this correctly, they started putting them in the Dodge in '95 and the ones in the gas burners is what we are looking for, that sound right? But up through what year would that be? I read that they used that trans up to 2005?
What Steve told me pretty much mirrors what you said. He said something about having to change the front shaft for aroung $100, the pilot bushing and use the 1" spacer/adaptor, about $250 and like you said, you can use your Chevy clutch and throw out brg. I'm wondering if he meant change the bearing retainer rather than the front shaft???
Also unless I misunderstood him, the early GM did have a mechanical speedometer. And that lower 1st gear doesn't bother me, anything is better than the 1st gear in the SM420. If I were to ever do a swap for my self it would be for the 5th gear overdrive that the 5speeds have.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
