Good-bye TOD

[Joe_Black]

Ah, gotcha. In that case I'd ditch the 4L30E altogether as it's borderline in stock configuration as is, and there are so many other options out there. When we had the '04 Axiom (I know I keep coming back to that) I really liked the Aisin slushbox as it was much beefier, plus the selectable TOD was nice. Of course if you drop the TOD a whole new world opens up...

[Triathlete]

I like my auto tranny. So lets go one step further...what other auto tranny's will work with our engine? Not that I really want to change the tranny.

[MrCrowley]

Here is another interesting theory-

Have you ever noticed that most independent sus. vehicles- especially cv jointed ones usually have a "differential box" with cv's connected to it, and ours has a "hacked" front axle with cv's bolted to the ends? Also, our front is the rear of the old troopers. This is all leading up to my thought- What if an old trooper rear axle was used again, but this time hacked only enough to install steering knuckles like the front of a true solid axle front 4x4. The difference being that all of the "extras" could be incorporated into it like ABS sensors, matched gears, multilink to match the rear, etc.

If I were doing this major of a hacking, I would run that Richmond 6 speed manual with custom gearing available, and I think that twin stick NP transfer case bolts to it? Hmm...

[Triathlete]

Since our tranny is used in some jeeps and other vehicles (or so I've been told on other 'Zu boards) the NP cases may be an option. It will just be a case of finding one that has the same bolt pattern that may be mateable.
As far as the front axle, I will be running a D44 from a wide track Waggy...close to the stock width and has the same lug pattern, plus a lot of aftermarket.

[MrCrowley]

Even if not, I have used some of the Advanced Adapters stuff to run a small block in a Jeep, so from my experience their stuff is better than stock as far as modern, tolerances, etc. I used their Chevy to Jeep aluminum bellhousing which was made better than anything from the '80s. lol