Well, I picked up the parts to turn my 2005 Reg Cab 2wd Truck into a 4wd, I was going to build a 2wd street truck but I then came across these parts and I just couldn't resist...... I paid $1800 for a Front axle off a 2006 which included radius arms, shocks, steering linkage, rotors, pads, everything, the Trans, and t-case off the same truck. Truck was a roll over and had 30k miles on it. The guy I bought the parts from still has the motor that he wants to sell, he was willing to sell me the COMPLETE motor, trans, t-case, and front axle for $4500, that was almost to tempting to pass up but I didn't need the motor. So.. now the work begins! Thanks to Truck Source Diesel in advance for they are willing to guide me through this build.
None yet, soon.....studs, egr delete, and regulated return are getting done this coming week and then the following weekend I will start putting the 4wd in. I will post pics and updates as I go. :rockwoot:
I will be starting this conversion HOPEFULLY this coming week but I do have a question if anyone could help....... The t-case is electronic 4wd, does anyone know if I could convert this t-case or if I am screwed and have to look for a manual t-case?!?
Started putting the 4wd in today, I will post pics up a little bit later. Turns out the coil buckets are different, but other than that it is going pretty smoothly!!
here what I got so far, only thing I have to button up on the front suspension is the track bar. Next week I will start putting the 4wd trans and t-case in.
before:
AFTER:
I will keep this updated as we start on the transmission transplant!:evil
Finally found the time to finish my 4wd, and I did confirm that you can remove tail housing and tail shaft from a 4wd trans and bolt it right up to a 2wd trans. I basically just swapped tail housing's on the transmission's I had, thus not having to swap trannies. Went to the track last night and everything worked like a dream! All in all it was a pretty easy swap, the crossmembers are the same in a 2wd and a 4wd the only difference was the crossmember mount. Here are some pics of the final few steps:
2wd tail housing:
back of existing trans with tail housing removed:
4wd tail housing and t-case bolted up, with existing crossmember and new crossmember mount:
I just noticed that the previous pics got moved so here they are again, its not much because there was really much involved it was pretty basic, there was only really a handful of parts that were different:
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