I live a few miles away from mud truck paradise. If my truck ever goes "muddin" it wouldn't be on purpose. I understand the thrill, just isn't my thing. Seems the mud truck guys up the road are very fond of the TH350 and don't much care for the 700R4. I'm told the jump between 1st and 2nd gear is a little severe at wide open throttle if you are hub deep in mud.
And they don't get much benefit out of the overdrive gear. All of which may work out well for me.
I just talked with a guy that does lots of work for the mud truck guys. He gets a steady stream of trucks and parts which he converts into mud trucks. When he gets one in that has a 700R4 his customers frequently want to change it to a TH350. I have one TH350 that is a runner and another that is a rebuilder. It looks like we are going to be able to work out a swap that will leave me with a nicely built 700R4 and the appropriate drive shaft in exchange for my two 350's. I have to read up on how I want the 700 to be configured. He may want my straight 6 motor as well.
I need to work through what a fair swap would be for all the parts and pieces
, but it should work out that I can get what I want with no cash outlay and get some good contacts for parts of the work that I don't want to mess with.