My truck is a 99 K3500 6.5td Crew Cab. Several months ago I finally got everything together to swap my auto transmission for the manual NV 4500. It was the best thing I have done to my truck. I used to curse it on every trip because the automatic did not give me any control over shifts and I new it was wasting fuel. With the cruise on it would often shift down and rev the engine just before cresting a hill. On really hard pulls up steep grades out west the TCC would unlock and generate tons of heat so that the engine would over heat. I have always had a manual to pull things with but I thought I would give the auto a try. I don't plan on doing that again.

Anyway several people have asked me for details on my trans swap so I thought I would post it so that others could get the info.

I got my NV4500 from a 4x4 accessories company out of Alabama that I found on the internet. They were easy to deal with and I got a brand new NV4500 for $1910 delivered. This was not much more than I could get a rebuilt for.

My bell housing, single mass flywheel, through out brg, concentric slave cylinder and master clutch cylinder came from another diesel page member that only had a 6k miles on these parts. I gave $450 delivered for this. My other option I was considering on these parts was to buy a new clutch from Kennedy or Heath which when I checked one of them had the clutch and flywheel parts for $384. The rest of these parts I was trying to find from a salvage yard but manual parts are hard to find.

I had to buy the clutch pedal and bracket from a local dealer that gives a substantial discount on parts. These cost me about $100. The pedal, master, slave and bracket has to come from a 97 or newer. The older ones are a different style.

I got the shifter stick and boots from a salvage yard for about $20. They were from an early 90