I would strongly encouraging losing the adapter and switching to a full size transmission. It'll involve changing driveshaft lengths, but you'll end up with a unit designed to work behind the V8 rather than one that was marginal behind the V6.
Could you give a little more background?
It's hard to tell - do you already have a V8 swap with an adapter to the FM146, or are you considering a swap because the trans ble behind the stock motor?
In the future I'll probably do the same. I bought a bunch of 5 quart jugs over the years when they were on great sales - like Rotella T6 synthetic for ~$10 a jug, etc. Some of it reappeared in my storage unit recently. I'll use it soon or give it away before it gets much older.
At first glance I don't see why not? But I defer to people that know better.
You'd need to splice a couple of wires to make the 4wd lights work on the dash.
Honestly most of it wasn't so bad. I took a break for a while when the initial engine build blew up and parked the truck. When I eventually got the thing back together and discovered I'd mixed up the camshafts, even that wasn't a breaking point. I just started unbolting crap, made an...
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