zpd307
Registered User
i am knee deep into my zf swap. the e40d fried on me pulling a 12 ft camper. i picked up a rear driveshaft out of a 91 gasser f350 crew, along with the cross member. now that the auto is out, i compared the two cross members. i do not like what i see. both have the vertical curved piece that bolts along the outside of the frame, but the new cm is higher, therefore lowering the horizontal part. but the new cm is not as wide as the e40d piece. so i went to the junkyard so see what i could find, maybe there was a different gusset to be used...... all the manual tranny trucks used a completely different style cross member. there were several 250/350 trucks that had manual trannys, but the yards practice is to cut the cross members to get the trannys out. SO...... can i modify my e40d cross member to make it work with the zf tranny? or is anyone close that has a spare cross member?