Hi Ho Hi Ho its to off the transmision shop I go.

[Racemag]

transmission donor? Vehicle Detail - Pickles Auctions Australia

[Sunny43.5]

Thanks for the link racemag we picked up the van on Saturday so its all fine now so once I have finished the conversion on the new one the old one will be sold privately .

[jfoldbar]

So have you considered an engine/transmission transplant? Put a reliable and cheap to service Japanses engine and transmission in there? It would be a bit of stuffing around, but such swaps are not uncommon and I'd imagine the cost would be around $10k

im very interested in this. can you pm me with more details. i tried to find out about this but couldnt find anyone that wouldnt stop laughing at me for suggesting it.

[Racemag]

Laughing...well I guess it depends on who you would ask to do it. It is never a small job and you would be forging new ground doing it...I would suggest finding out the amount of room, relationship of gearbox to driveshafts to engine. Base electrical system and fuel system. The see what you can get to fit in the space and seeing if the donor comes up or auction at pickles etc as salvage. Then check what a transplant would do for insurance and rego and if it needs engineering for emissions. It would be neither quick nor easy, but could be rewarding. It is very common to replace broken diesels in transits post 2007 with commodore v6 and five spd auto on LPG.