It's all in, a fairly easy job. It took me 6 hours, but messing with the passenger side nuts added extra time. Removing the transmission crossmember and lowering the transmission helps, but a 13mm crows-foot makes it happen, I only had a 1/2" but it's interchangeable. The fuel tank skid plate added to the difficulty as well. I had to remove the transfercase motor from the transfercase and bend a corner of the fuel tank skid plate to get the transfercase up past it. I simply bent the corner back afterwards. An adjustable wrench works well for this.
Attached are pictures of the end of the nag transmission, the NV245 and NV140 transfercase and finally a picture comparing the NV245 drivetrain to the NV140 drivetrain. The NV140 is about half the weight of the NV245.
I have tested shifting the transfercase and the transfercase is shifting correctly, next is to test drive it, check for vibrations with the used driveshafts and to test for low lock errors.
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