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Old 09-02-2011, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by winmutt View Post
Gotta think of europe and the rest of the world, engines from 200,240,280,300. Across a variety of chassis including galendewagens, pontons, SL's etc etc etc. I would pay 2k maybe 3k shipped for a brand new in box with warranty trans. G wagen owners world wide would not hesitate at the opportunity regardless of the price.

Globally I can easily see a batch of a 1000 of these at a reasonable price being sold with in one year, hell within a few months.
true, if they also managed to completely update the shifting away from the clunky side levers too, and you had a configurable new trans that would work in a dozen applications perhaps. Would be a completely awesome solution

Im still kind of interested in the toyota trans though, its just so close as far as starter position and bell size. Wasn't there a thread on a guy who put a 617 in a 4 runner or something, and he had some great pics of how perfectly the bell matched up? Im trying to find that thread

EDIT- here it is, look at some of these pics where he comes up with the adapter- (I also stole some of his pics) I mean, look at that, look at how close that trans in to a stock MB configuration

http://www.4btswaps.com/forum/showthread.php?8362-89-Toyota-4runner-OM617.952-Benz-Swap
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