blueblaze
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So yesterday I was doing a u joint change on my M1008's rear shaft. And when I pulled the shaft out, the t case puked out its atf fluid a bit. And It got me thinking that when the truck had the TH400 setup it didn't do that to this extent.
When I did my NV4500 swap I used the double hump cross member. The original TH400 setup as we all know uses the flat cross member with the tall style adapter. Considering the frame is taller on the 1 ton trucks I wonder if using the double hump cross member with the shorter NV4500 adapter housing is dropping the drive line down further then it should be? That I instead should use some tubing and build it up like some guys do with the flat style cross member and get it back to its stock drive line location? Not to mention gain a lot of ground clearance back as well.
Or am I missing something in this equation?
I did some searching about it and couldn't find this exact conversation being had besides the usual cross member selection.
When I did my NV4500 swap I used the double hump cross member. The original TH400 setup as we all know uses the flat cross member with the tall style adapter. Considering the frame is taller on the 1 ton trucks I wonder if using the double hump cross member with the shorter NV4500 adapter housing is dropping the drive line down further then it should be? That I instead should use some tubing and build it up like some guys do with the flat style cross member and get it back to its stock drive line location? Not to mention gain a lot of ground clearance back as well.
Or am I missing something in this equation?
I did some searching about it and couldn't find this exact conversation being had besides the usual cross member selection.