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That is one thing that I would prefer NOT to do, but I already have the car with the matched MANUAL transmission.
It looks a hole lot easier to match the car's transmission to the truck's driveshaft than to match the car's engine to the truck's transmission.
I still plan on changing the gearing in the differential to hopefully MORE than make up the difference in fuel economy by taking advantage of diesel's low-end torque.
I am still maybe looking at buying a different truck (same model, & roughly the same year) and doing the swap into that. That would allow me to still have transportation while transplanting, and maybe give me some more time to think about things.
I really need to have car guts sitting in my driveway to see and figure out exactly what I am doing.
It would be nice to keep the manual transmission, but that seems complicated right now. (This Mercedes was only available with an automatic in the States.)
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