Well considering the boxes are the same JRL it's not dumb at all. Just to be clear, I was fitting a V70 gearbox into my XC70. The car is all back up and running and the AW55 50 from the V70 works perfectly and is now an AWD AW55 50. For those that said it's the wrong box I'm afraid you're wrong. If ...

Yes I know the question is essentially about making the donor gearbox into the AWD version

The only difference appears to be the final drives

Question was do the final drives just need to be swapped over?

What else is different?

Hi guys New to the forum. I won't go into the story but the transmission in my 2001 XC70 Turbo has finally given up at 150k and I have bought a low milage AW55 50 from a V70. (I have a new valve body, it only lasted a further 20,000 miles) I have now removed the old gearbox and I'm looking at the di...