For my next trick the standard type 9 is tooooooooo long... about 50% too long.
Is there a cheap easy way to get rid of the extension at the back of the box or is there any other box that's a lot shorter?
Depending on the outcome of this Q my next question may be considerably more dumb in a dumb sort of fashion.
Get your thinking caps on
LG,
Steve
it depends on the problem, if you want the gear stick near the front then a type 9 from a transit, the stick comes out of the top of the main box, but it does still have the bit out the back, but its got no stick place, i would guess that could be modded so its not there if someone knows what they are doing.
form memory the transit MT75 is quite short
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Originally posted by mcerd1
form memory the transit MT75 is quite short
The Sierra MT75 is quite short when you take the gear lever mounting frame off, would guess 150 + mm shorter than a T9.
There were a company at Stoneleigh doing replacement gearboxes for the type 9 in which the gearbox was a load smaller and shorter and just had a massive extension for gearstick. I will try and find out what the company were called. Sorry i can't help more.
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Originally posted by eddie99
There were a company at Stoneleigh doing replacement gearboxes for the type 9 in which the gearbox was a load smaller and shorter and just had a massive extension for gearstick. I will try and find out what the company were called. Sorry i can't help more.
Elite, Quaife also do a short Type 9 which ever way you go it's not cheap
my mate has a mt75 bolted to a zetec in his westy dont see why the transit one should be any different .m.
a transit MT75 is totally different from a car box, but transit type 9 could be made very short as the gear select comes direct out the top of the gearbox, all the bit on the back is, is a cover over the shaft, how short do you need it
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Originally posted by bj928
a transit MT75 is totally different from a car box, but transit type 9 could be made very short as the gear select comes direct out the top of the gearbox, all the bit on the back is, is a cover over the shaft, how short do you need it
this 4x4 your building - its not a blitz 4x4 is it ?
No mate, in case you didn't see it at Stoneleigh, this is what I'm after....
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one of my mates has a blitz 4x4 (also SJ based)
he looked at a few engine swaps (inc. VAG 1.9 TDi - someone was making adapters for the vitara's I think)
but in the end he got a vitara engine (1.6 I think) because it was cheap and easy - there is always the V6 though 
the type 9 out of a 4x4 transit then, early one, hens teeth though, or a T5 like the sierras have was available as a 4x4 in the CJ7 type jeeps, don't know how short both are though, another option, don't know how it would work but worth a look for a very short box, would be somehow use a mondeo mk1 4x4 box or maybe an RS2000 escort mk5ish 4x4 box, not sure how the mondeo/escort box would work as they were both trasverse mounted engines but it might be doable.
^^ thats a thought - you'd have alot more room if you didn't have the seperate transfer box.......