The NV4500 5 speed is bullet proof. I put a short shifter ball in mine when I built it. All in all, I put $4K into the converson. Nice tight little shifts. With my few 2500 RPMs I tow more than my brakes can stop and don't need an extra gear.
After my Cummins Chevy I got the conversion bug, put a 4BT Cummins in my 68 Bronco, tooled up my VW pickup with a bigger 1.9TD and a Mercedes in a Jeep.
But I have to agree (with sarcasm): why waste all the money repowering. Buy one ready built. And I hold that thought only as long as I don't think about payments. And that an equivalent truck to mine is over fifty grand and too pretty to use. I had my truck 10 years when I repowered it.
Honestly, repowering a truck brings problems. Like headliners that are so old they need replaced, worn out turn signal arms and cruise control switches and dealer telling you that part is no longer available, and recommending LMC truck as a parts source.
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