Lift it, lock it, wheel the hell out of it, if you like it wheel it many more times, if you didn't like it change it wheel it some more, change more stuff, etc, etc, that's what I do. Don't throw that auto out until you try it, you may like it. I loved my auto Toy, miss it dearly, an auto trans is like having instant gear reduction except downhill, but if it is the electrically controlled converter you can shut off the stall and it's like having a engine brake. My friend/mechanic figured that out for me, and wired a switch to it. If you do it you just have to remember that once you try to stop it will not want to and if you manage to get it stopped it will blow the converter. Just flip the switch off and it reverts to normal. You do loose about 15% hp that the auto soaks up. Personally I love the long wheelbase Toy's, it's the same feeling when you go from a short wheelbase Jeep type vehicle to the wb of a standard base Toyota. Trust me I have had just about all of the popular offroad vehicles and some less popular types, the lwb Toy is the way to go as far as I'm concerned for the average rig. Now if you were going extreme which most of us don't, (I don't conceder the little sluice extreme) then I'd want a standard wb Toyota.
