A bit more pic whoring

[tRustyK5]

Remember when Tim ran this setup in his red SWB K10? How is your setup different than his? I know he ran the ORD Doubler, but is everything else the same?

I can't recall all the spec's on Tims setup, but my 205 is clocked up 3" and I'm bucking the trend and going with 1410 yokes front and rear...then running 1410/1410 shafts instead of CV shafts. Near as I can tell the front and rear driveshafts will be within 1" of each other length wise...so I can carry one spare. Overall I guess it's pretty much the same setup though.

Ira: I know the cool kids all run 5.13's, but the 4.56's i have are pretty much perfect for me. For wheeling with 40-42's I'll definitely have more than enough gear, and for DD duties with some 37" AT's the 6.2 will be purring along at ~1900 rpm on the highway. I should see 22 mpg.

Besides, i've never been one of the cool kids...why start now?

Rene

 

[dremu]

LOL, nothing really wrong with the smurf blue, I just couldn't find anymore that matched so I decided on hammered silver instead. I mostly wanted them painted so it'd be easier to trace possible future oil leaks...to be honest the only parts that will ever be visible will be the shifters.

Rene

Now there's a clever idea ... I did the silverish color on my crossmembers when I cleaned thirty years of scuzz off them, and my excuse then was that they looked nicer ... but there you go, leak tracing!

-- A

 

[tRustyK5]

Hey, it worked on the current SM 465. I easily found the source of a leak...and then did absolutely nothing about it.

Rene

 

[sandawgk5]

Ira: I know the cool kids all run 5.13's, but the 4.56's i have are pretty much perfect for me. For wheeling with 40-42's I'll definitely have more than enough gear, and for DD duties with some 37" AT's the 6.2 will be purring along at ~1900 rpm on the highway. I should see 22 mpg.

Besides, i've never been one of the cool kids...why start now?

Rene

those are some good numbers for a rig that size . I wish I could get 22 MPG . Someday I will be in the 100 Ratio Club

Ira

 

[yellowK20]

Rene do you think you could link me to your post about drilling the face of your 203 box???? I have a new project truck the 6.5 grenaded in my 93 so i'm putting a 350 tbi engine in it and a SAS and i'd like to put a doubler in it ...... actually i just need D-side drop t-case it has a NV4500/241 combo now . I have a 4-spd-np208 ,th400-np205,th400-np203,th350-np203,and a P-side drop Dodge NV4500-NV241 sorry for the hi-jack but you seem to be the one in the know about this stuff

 

[82K5_6.5L]

i want that!

 

[tRustyK5]

Rene do you think you could link me to your post about drilling the face of your 203 box???? I have a new project truck the 6.5 grenaded in my 93 so i'm putting a 350 tbi engine in it and a SAS and i'd like to put a doubler in it ...... actually i just need D-side drop t-case it has a NV4500/241 combo now . I have a 4-spd-np208 ,th400-np205,th400-np203,th350-np203,and a P-side drop Dodge NV4500-NV241 sorry for the hi-jack but you seem to be the one in the know about this stuff

I had Kyle and Jordan at NWF do the redrill on the 203 range box when they rebuilt it. From what I understand it's not too complex, just transfer punch through the adaptor holes, drill and tap. Where it got a little weird was the adaptor on the rear of the NV4500 was designed for drivers side drop, and the 6 hole pattern is not symmetrical. Kyle and Jordan did the redrill just fine, but the pattern they drilled was the mirror image of what i needed. My theory was that when GM switched to drivers side drop they just mirrored their CAD models for the adaptor housings.

At any rate you can only effectively get 5 out of the 6 holes with the redrill...which is fine. All I had to do to overcome the mirrored pattern was to oval one hole on my output housing. It was a 5 minute job with the Dremel and a small carbide burr.

I may be able to dig up some pics on my computer and post them up...

Rene

 

[tRustyK5]

Sent a pm with pic's, but figured I'd post them up here as well as it might help someone else.

First pic shows the gasket on the back of the NV4500 output housing. Note there is a 7th hole in the gasket and it is oriented to the left upper area.

Here is the gasket oriented exactly the same way on the redrilled face of the 203. the 7th hole is now on the right upper corner because we're looking at the other side of the gasket now.

And here is the gasket in the mirrored position on the 203.

NWF drilled the face of the 203 correctly according to every other one they had ever done up til mine. Every other one had been for adaptors that were originally passenger drop, my NV 4500 was a drivers side application as they all were.

Rene

 

[lamberthkp]

awsome set up

 

[yellowK20]

Sent a pm with pic's, but figured I'd post them up here as well as it might help someone else.

First pic shows the gasket on the back of the NV4500 output housing. Note there is a 7th hole in the gasket and it is oriented to the left upper area.

Here is the gasket oriented exactly the same way on the redrilled face of the 203. the 7th hole is now on the right upper corner because we're looking at the other side of the gasket now.

And here is the gasket in the mirrored position on the 203.

NWF drilled the face of the 203 correctly according to every other one they had ever done up til mine. Every other one had been for adaptors that were originally passenger drop, my NV 4500 was a drivers side application as they all were.

Rene

What version 203 did you use??? I'm assuming a TH400 version is that correct??? whats' the spline count on that???

 

[muddybuddy]

is all this sexy stuff in ur k5 yet?

 

[tRustyK5]

Gus, I'm not sure what version that 203 started out as but it has the 32 spline short input now.

No, it's not in my truck yet...soon though. I have some time off starting at the end of the month and should have all my parts in by then.

Rene