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Drove 10 hours straight trim VA to hike up Mt.Washington and drive up the Auto Road. Old Blue didn’t skip a beat! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

These are questions I would love answered. While I personally really like my ATX14A, it seems to remain a bit of a “black box” to me. I too have a set of Mile Marker hubs I kindly was gifted by[mention=36148]hawairish[/mention] but I have to admit I’m given pause by the recent destruction of a set & reports of other failures. I have only heard of OEM auto hub failures in theory but I’m unaware of any actual failures. Saving a single mpg is inconsequential to me but I see value in preserving wear on the OEM CVs (especially in light of recent discoveries that not all aftermarket CVs fit without binding in cases where the OEMs are fine). The primary reason for installing manual hubs for me is to allow for a CV replacement on trail without removing the wheel - though I have to admit that, with the kind of offroading I do, I will consider an OEM CV failure to be operator error on my part. Anyways, more info is great as there doesn’t seem to be much definitive on the ATX14A. The use of an undercarriage camera is an excellent idea.

Dozzerwd21 the Ecotec is the Aussie version of the vortec, 3.8L EFI based on Buick V6. Projectcar I gave the conversion a lot of thought multiple times. Guys that have done it keep blowing the manual gearbox, and the pathy boxes are getting harder to find. Could use a commo gearbox and fit a divorced transfer, like off a 720, but that is far more work and expense, Also, with the kits I have seen you need to use the very early engine - VN/VP engine, not the Ecotec which was VR/VS. The kits are not stocked by most suppliers (Marks 4wd adaptors, Castlemaine Rod Shop, V6 conversions.com and Dellow, and most kits were to suit the Commodore 4 speed auto. Kits came out at about 3k, plus you need a donor car and to engineer the thing, need to pay to have the auto modified to accept the nissan transfer case, new front driveshaft modded. I worked out $AUD 5k if I did all the work myself. In saying that there was one already converted on Gumtree about a month ago for $1000.

I did this awhile back but changed ALL of my interior lights to red to not mess with vision at night. and it looks pretty dang cool