a4ld to 5speed swap problems

[rcvanness]

I hope somebody can help me, my a4ld died on me so i took it out of my 1987 ranger supercab stx 6'box and i got a 5 speed Mitsubishi FM145 out of a 1986 ranger xl reg cab 7' bed. i got rid of the electronic transfer case and just went with all manual stuff, but the problem ive run in to is my back shaft is two peices and the second half is too short, and using the back shaft from the 7' truck is too long, i would like to know will a rear shaft from a straight drive reg cab 6' bed truck fix my problem, carrier bearing an dfront half of shaft fine its back half i got problems with.

 

[The_Dealer]

fm145 is 2" shorter then the a4ld. your front driveshaft is 2" too long and your rear 2" too short. sounds like u are going to have to either convert to a 1 pc d-shaft, which i reccomend doing. or u will have to shorten your back shaft which is too long from the 7ft truck. d shaft shortening is about 50-100 bucks.

 

[AllanD]

The "one piece" REAR driveshaft from a 1998-up would have fit the A4LD (with a change to the rear axle flange) but is too short for an FM145.

The intermediate shaft between the T-case and the carrier bearing for an FM145 or T-K is 2" shorter than the shaft he needs.

The front axle driveshaft is 2" too long.

a 1988-up FM146 or M5OD-R1 trans would have been the same OAL as the A4LD you removed.

The Fm146 or M5OD-R1 would also not REQUIRE relocating the transmission crossmember.

But the M5OD-R1 would require replacing the shift boot floor plate with one from an '88-up and extending the hole in the transmission tunnel to match the '88-up plate.

this has been discussed more times on this sub-forum than can be counted.

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