As far as the weather, it’s definitely a lot more like Illinois than Arizona right now ……into the 20s at night and the last couple of days 40s during the day.

I’m probably going to start on the splines first, that way if I can’t get them to work or screw them up, I haven’t shortened the input shaft and can still go with the adapter.

The engine that’s going in front of it is a 283 and the plan is to drop the whole mess into an 87 Ram 50 that has a 3.91 open rear end.



With the light weight and deep gears I figure keeping the tire size reasonable and doing the “adult driving” thing it will hopefully last, at least until my Grandsons reach driving age. Hopefully by that time I’ll have a spare one sitting under the bench and they can contemplate what happens when they do stupid stuff while laying on a creeper elbow deep in 90 weight


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