Mallcrawler83
Well-Known Member
Anybody read the threads on pirate? Any locals do it? Seems to good to be true....

I built mine simple like, certainly to simple for pirate.
Remove bellhousing from trans.
Take piece of 1/2 steel, take bell housing. flip bell housing over to mating surface to trans and spray liberally with paint. While bell housing you sprayed is wet slap it down on the steel. Boom, good pattern.
Take transmission minus transfer case cleaned up, do the same with the paint and slap it on the steel.
You have your bolt holes left in paint, an outline left to cut, and 2 plates once you cut. you need the adapter to be 2.5" mount to mount, so goo to tractor supply and get some 1.5" .25-. .375" 1.5 strap and cut weld bend it to fit the difference in you chosen clocking to the 2 plates. True up and weld together. Flip front shaft to rear, build a front shaft.
So, $30 in steel at tractor supply. 2'x2' piece of 1/2", and a spare trans. and a little time.
You got the file to build a case doubler that easy, or did we move away from cheap tech?