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Well, I emailed Advanced Adaptors and this was their response
Unfortunately, we do not have any plans to bring it back, and we do not have any inventory left to make any units.
Thanks
Orren Euler
Technical Sales
That sucks. After reading up on em a little bit the Ranger units seem like the...
Well that seems kinda shady. I don't know if I could buy a $3000 anything that the manufacturer won't supply parts/support for. Everything wears out or breaks eventually.
Well, maybe so but not for long. It's been my experience that with any hard use they need rebuilt every few years. I drove a 87 1/2 ton 4x4 on 38s for 10yr & had to rebuild the 700 in that truck twice. My current daily driver is a 89 c1500. I've had if for 7yr now & I'm on trans number 3. I...
I would like to stay manual but I'm not dead set on it. I played with a couple rpm calculators & at 60mph there's only about 80 rpm difference between the .75 4L80 & the .78 SM465/GV. Going by the ratios the 700r4 looks good but that seems like introducing a weak link to me. I'm sure there's...
10-4. To clarify I had no intention of trying to use the OD unit while in 4wd. I'm not sure why you would even want to. I was just wondering if all that extra meat behind the T-case would weaken the driveline.
My m1028 has a SM465/np205 & I've been wanting to do a NV4500 swap for the 5th gear because 3k at 60mph sucks bad. Then I started looking at putting a Gear Vendors OD on the set-up I already have. The only way I'd go nv4500 is if I can find an early one because I'm not willing to loose my...