4 speed od or 5 speed
I haven't done a conversion, but I drove a 5 speed Dakota for awhile.
It's a truck transmission. It's geared like a truck transmission, and it shifts like a truck transmission. It's not a bad transmission, but it's nothing special either. I know that if I was going to do all the work of hacking out the tunnel and re-engineering the crossmember to mount it (because you'll have to), I'd be installing a TKO or a T56 instead.