Yeppers, I still remember when you were still buying and selling military trucks way back seems like 3 forums redos, you are the guy who redrilled the 3053a duce adapter for a true sae #2 pattern i am thinking, used to follow your posts on the m715 site, how long ago was that??? Anyway, when i buy those spicer 3053a I always get them to pull the top cover and look in them, snap a digital picture, the ragtop has ruined more m35 trucks for people who dont know the spicer 3053a is actually the armys rainguage for the trucks as the shifter boot dry rots and the poor transmission get blamed as being bad bad due to water in the case, do you still have a truck with a big block chevy and 53a in it?? I not been on the forums in years, i dont have period on this keyboard sorry, anyway, spicergear, is there anybody in your area that could make a married adapter for a spicer 3053a to a 241 t/c or 205 271 etc etc?? There is a national parts shortage on nv replacement parts, they are nonexistant my rebuilder tells me and he will not install the china trash, he buys cores to get good used parts to try to rebuild a nv4500 when he can find surplus parts still made by usa new venture, $2500 total with all usa updates out the door down here, $400 labor installed in a 4x4 truck, is there a shop in your area than can machine inside splines in a transmssion to transfercase coupler?? Aparently very rare machine down here, many can do spline recutting and new shaft splines bu not the inside splines to match the 3053a to a married adapter if there was one avaialble, I thought the nv4500 had a tail case that was aluim and the nv5600 and g56 were alium cased as well??? If i am wrong so sorry stand corrected, but i still think the 3053a especially with the updated kit tom has is one of the tuffest and cheapest transmissions you can buy right now, you can not buy a nv5600 or g56 without a core due to parts shortage so a rebuild is like $4000 to $5000 down here, I rather run a divorced 205 transfercase or a 273c transfercase with a divorced input shaft from a GMC 5500, trying to find out how to buy a np273c new t/c or parts to make a dodge or ford transferase 270 series into a manual shifted and divorced t/c so can run this old 53a in a newer dodge 3500 4x4 truck i have with bad nv4500?? Any ideas about the np 273c divorced t/c??