thanks for the answers bigmike. i have a w56b top shift tranny and t case out of the same 86 efi 4runner. the 1980 case has the step in the input. from what i gathered from the info above is to use the 86 tcase for the crawl box and put the 4.7 gears and triple drilled flanges in the 1980 case. this should solve all the problems mentioned above correct?