Thanks for your input,

The 54 waas the last year of the closed driveline so I would need to swap that if I changed everything else correct?

I am leaning heavily towords rebuilding this one as itr apparantly only has 15000 miles on it and I just don't really have the know how to do major surgery if you know what I mean.

Yes, I can get a kit to rebuild it, is 6V to 12V something I should swap too?

About the tranny, is there any way of finding out if it is decent as I will be pulling it as well or is that something I should rebuild as well?

Can I get a higher ratio tranny? or is that something i specify when rebuilding it?

thanks again