Hey, thanks for the reply man. I've been trying to find a transmission to replace my dead W52 - found a guy with a W55 but that looks like it wont work since they're different lengths, and he's keeping his drive-line.
Do you know this from personal experience, or is there a tech writeup somewhere on the lengths and/ or spline differences etc. that a person could work out whether a trans. would be swappable? Been searching all over a bunch of forums and there just doesn't seem to be much info on the 2WD transmissions where there is for the 4WD models. Would love to know what transmissions will and wont work in my rig.