91 405Mi16x4 Rear wheel drive conversion north south engine

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Thank you Savo, you are right dealing with machine shop is a pain, machinist in my country are like dealing with a hustler, they will say anything to raise the price up and i'll end up paying more then the gearbox is worth, doing it my shelf save me the trouble, i'm more proud of the clutch pressure plate than the input shaft because there was no other way and the machine shop told me is impossible to enlarge it, it is spring steel. The reason why i did it like this, is because the gearbox bell housing was too long and when i shorten it there were only two lower holes which did not line up, so i decided to use the upper part of a BE3 gearbox, that way my starter, crank sensor and 3 bolt holes lind up. Yesterday i cut a XUD7 block and crank in half and made a stand to hold it at 30 degrees to make it easy to line up for welding, now i'm waiting on my friend to find some free time to weld it.

Couple of weeks ago the harddrive on my pc died and i lost all my old pictures and videos, but thanks to youtube, one survived is very bad quality (vga phone camera) but shows how good the 4WD system on the mi16x4 is, that is a hill.

5-25-2016

Last couple of days some more parts arrived first of which is a air/fuel ratio gauge, blow off valve and flange, coolant expansion tank, level sensor and cap, and couple silicone vacuum hose, and screw in vacuum nipples, and made some progress on the gearbox, more to come.