gnrrpreacher said:
I dunno the Dodge years but I do know that the dodge tail will fit the chevy. I have a line on one of each for $250 total.
I *think* he is saying that the fixed yoke is the way to go, just made it a little confusing to read.
Hopefully this will last me long enough to save for an atlas. Only real option for me since I need drivers drop off of the 700r4.
Sorry I only check in here ever couple of days. The Dodge rear cover will technically fit on the Chevy housing (I am positive of this I've done it myself), however, the shift rod that controls the gears, and what range of 4WD or 2WD is in a different location. So I guarantee, the Dodge and Chevy NP241s are NOT, I repeat NOT compatible with each other. The only way to get a fixed yoke on a Chevy NP241 is to buy the kit. And I recommend Jess from Highangledriveline because he is on Pirate and has an excellent reputation and I've heard good things about the kit.
They will bolt together but the Dodge fixed yoke will NOT fit on a chevy housing, nor will the entire rear Dodge housing fit on a chevy half without major (and I mean major) aluminum fabrication. I had the same idea as you Gnrrpreacher and wasted a lot of time and money investigating it but it was not possible to have the Dodge rear on the Chevy front. Sorry! But other than that they are very similar and it seems 96% of parts are interchangable between the two. I was even able to get all of the Dodge guts to fit in the chevy version.
Also sorry if I was misread, the FIXED yoke is much better in my opinion. I snapped some photos, I wish I had an original clunky photo of the Chevy NP241. The rear slip yoke looks like one of Madonna's bras, similar to Jeep NP231, very long and pointy.. And not desirable at all for any SWB vehicle.
I put all of the photos here:
http://www.collegeinternetsolutions.com/cisautoweb/fj55/np241/
Hopefully they are self explanatory. I got my Dodge fixed-yoke one from a guy on PBB which I admittedly overpiad for a little but lower than 'market' price (ie if I were to go to a tranny shop). I have found them in '87 through '91 Dodges so far, all models from 1/2 to 1 ton. In chevies they were in mid '88 through '91 Blazers and later. But the '88 through '91 FS blazers and Suburbans, ONLY those with the old body style (aka passenger side drop), have a mechanical speedo while later ones (92 and on) have an electronic version. From not a whole lot later and on, they were pretty much all switched to drivers side drop in Chevies and Dodges, so if you need passenger side drop it has to be from these years. It ran late into 90's Dodge era and I believe Chevy too. In some models they were eventually replaced with the NP242, basically an electronically shifting version. Then I think the NP272 if I'm not mistaken, I believe also a similar transfer case...
And here is my Dodge NP241, again using a spare rear u-joint yoke on the front as well. The round flange (Jess can probably mate a high angle for it) fits on the front or rear too but OEM is on the front. And the input gear there is a Chevy one I put in the Dodge t-case, but in the end I decided to get a Dodge tranny instead, and simply use the OEM dodge pattern with the Dodge input (aka no tweaking or drilling required)... This is because the Dodge and Chevy NP241s are clocked different:
A neat thing I did was with the Dodges, the front and rear yokes are interchangable. The OEM setup is a flange (with a CV) on the front with a u-joint yoke for the rear. I used two u-joint flanges, and had custom driveshafts done with Toyota patterns on the axles and OEM Dodge ujoints on the t-case side. Hope it helps!