people were telling you what may go wrong but you dismiss it as not relevant then quote figers which untill its done are but theoretical, i havent even mentioned the centre prop bearing, which i can tell you disintigrates with a manual box due to...

i think your trying to convince your self not us

i cant shout too much i changed mine

still putting more stress on it, which ever box it is

and the one thing you havent taken into account is the gear box, known to disintegrate on a whim, changing the diff will put more stress on it when pulling away

see i just went ahead and did it, and there were plenty saying it couldnt be done and noone saying how to do it

so do the swap then

but what are the 5th and 8th gear ratios

you should look at the gear ratios, in the 5 speed 4th is 1 to 1, in the 8 speed 7 is 1to1, the later box may have 8 gears but thats only to fil in the spaces between the 5 speed to make changing even smother, the manual 6th gear is a lower gear...

been there done that spent 3 days looking for it, found it 4 years later still stuck under a hose along with a 10mm socket i lost the year before

and that keeps making me feel tied

it was an x3 box, you would have to change both diffs as the transferbox is not a true diff

as someone who drasticly changed hes drive train (manual box) in a l322 i looked at changing diff ratios, but decided against it as too much work for little gain, several things came from it, the forum was split about doing it ( one member was...