Hi, not been on here in ages, been restoring the Range Rover body shell, nearly there now, so back on the oily bits ready for mockup, then the body will be off for blasting and thermal zinc spray coating.
regarding the input shaft lengths, it's not a case of them not being long enough, but possibly just the wrong lengths! I'm not 100% until Saturday when I plan to have a proper measure up, but the sprinter dual mass delete flywheel I'm planning to use (used one before on a 606) adds a lot of length to the 606 and has a nice roller spigot bearing which pops out easily and is easy to change for a different spigot bearing. I have a v8 bellhousing, a tdi bellhousing, a tdi r380 and a v8 r380 to try combinations. Obviously if it were too short there's always the td5 r380 which is much longer input shaft and i need to buy one anyway if this looks like working as I need a suffix k or l box to build the strong one from! It looks to me that the tdi input shaft with v8 bellhousing will be very very close to working, but hard to tell exactly until all assembled. I suspect it will be a little short, which I hope I can remove from the faces of the bellhousing. We will see!