Just curious: wouldn't a body lift have saved you a LOT of work??
One thing I do have to agree and hate to admit on, a body lift would have helped. Its cool that you tucked the tranny in nicely, but if you do a body lift later, it would defeat the purpose you had in the begining by raising it in the cabin area. Best of luck <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" /> Oh, and let me know when you bring my Monty by for the same swap. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Angelo
I was thinking about body lift at the beginning... The thing was that 2" lift would have not been enough, so some of the floor needed to be cut anyway. Also it's so much easier and saves a lot of time to fit tranny, make the brackets and build exhaust if you can do it from the top. Look for example driver's side exhaust, can you imagine building this from underneath, where front driveshaft and t-case are on your way. In overall cutting all the floor out and building a new one later I think decreased work load, increased quality of all the parts that I was able to built from the top instead of underneath and new floor looks cool <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />. The floor may look a major part of the project, but actually it took about 3 days to build it. Never done a bodylift, how long would it take?
Also I'm not a big fan of the principle of bodylift - it doesn't increase much offroad capabilities, but does lift Cg (center of gravity)
Prove me if IÆm wrong.
