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727 and a518 direct swap?

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Old 06-06-2010, 02:13 PM
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727 and a518 direct swap?

Im selling my a518 to guy with a 89 cummins and he was wondering if its a direct swap? TC and adapter and drive shaft all the same?
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I am pretty sure the drive shaft would need to be shortened.
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Driveshaft shortened, but I'm told a 518 is a 727 with an OD bolted to it basically. He will have to formulate a way to kick in the OD. Either a toggle switch, or use gov pressure. Write up in the sticky.
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you will need to swap front /rear shafts and a switch for the O/D .If i was doing it I would just put a 47rh in you only need a few more parts and you would have lock up
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so he could buy my driveshaft to
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