morning guys. rain today, good day to take the truck to work. i am getting fired up to swap to a manual gearbox. I told myself i would not do the swap until my automatic bites the dust, should have another 30-50k miles left in it, and at 4k miles a year i think i will be fine for a while yet. it will give me a chance to source my parts for the swap at a good price. my plan is to swap to a 6 speed gearbox and swap from rear differential from 3.23 to a 3.73 final drive. then at some point pull the 4.3 v6 and drop n a 6.0 v8. i got to say, this little v6 is a mule. pulls a 6k pound Kabota tractor pretty good. i am impressed with the amount of torque it puts out. better than some of the smaller prissy v8's. My main reason for the swap is i need more truck, but i like what i have and its paid for. plus i can rebuild a manual gearbox, i don't work on auto's. So i smoked a bowl of the speediest stuff i got before heading to work. i think its working!!