I have a 1972 NP 205 divorced t-case from a Chevy blazer. I will be putting it in the M715 soon. I thought about swaping the internal parts of the 205 into the 200 case but it just doesnt seem like its worth it. plus I gain a PTO that I will be using for the winch.
The questions are:
1 Is this a fairly standard case to use so that it fits most of what everyone else swaping in a 205 is doing? I dont know if all the divorced cases use the same mounting points.
2 I would be making the brackets so that it will use the original cross beams and would use the original brackets in conjunction with some add-on brackets so that the PTO on the t-case can be used. This would place it in the same spot as factory. I will be shifting the driver side mount over more tward the drivers side frame to clear the PTO mount area. Does anyone have any suggestions or see possible problems with this setup?
3 would anyone be interested in buying any brackets if I made more while im at it? I'm pretty busy right now with getting the truck ready for hauling wood and I have a wood boiler to build also, but this winter I could crank out a bunch if anyone would be interested.
It would be nice to have a bunch of "standard" tech articles that show a good way to modify the M715 that are easy to follow and use common parts. obviously there are many ways to get to the same point, but it would be great if someone new to the site could just look up a standard NP205 t-case swap and see blueprints of the brackets that need to be made, pictures of the installed t-case and information on what years and models to look for a case from. I would have liked to see an article on engine mounts for installing a ford motor into the M715 particularly a 351 Cleveland or M motor. I ended up making the brackets myself but wasted a whole lot of time making them and taking out the motor 3 times. My point is that a lot of us are reinventing the wheel just to modify our trucks when we could find a good way and write up an article on it so that others could follow it. I had suggested using CJ7 windshield wiper parts to make a setup for the M715 and it works great, Gwen beat me to that one, but I certainly wish it was a posted article so everyone could see that it is an option compared to those single wiper motors that don't work with each other. I am sure that there are lots of ingenious ideas that people have come up with or discovered that some part or annother works on an M truck. it would be cool to list these somehow. What do you think?