vaultsman
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harveyp6 said:I did think you were going to have that problem when you were doing it, because the spacers you made to mount the exhaust to the back of the box were far longer than the ones I used, and although you cut and shortened your crossmember in exactly the way I did, your bolts came through in a different position to mine. You also had to cut the tunnel for clearance, which I didn't either. All I can think is that after measuring the position of the original flange in the tunnel, I dropped the back of the box a bit to compensate for the flange on the SD1 box being further back, and hence further down the slope towards the diff. Can't really remember, after all it was 25 years ago.....Only problem I had was the lever touching both sides of the console when in 1st and 5th, but that may be something you don't suffer with as your lever will be higher so won't have the range of movement level with the console to cause any problems.
Regardless of all that, I'm glad you're happy with the result.
I did wonder about dropping the box at the time, particularly as you'd said you only had to use 1/4"-ish spacers, but as well as the relative tailshaft flange heights I also had in mind the original position of the exhaust clamp relative to the body.
Maybe with hindsight I could have lowered the box by 1/2" or so, but even at that I'm sure the gearlever would need shortening.
Thanks for all your help talking me through this job Harvey, both before and during.
Cheers,