96 Chevy K3500 Conversion

[Pmaloney]

Hello all I am a new subscriber who just recently picked up a rolled 99 3/4 ton 24V to swap into my 96 K3500 Dually. I have spoken with Kenny at Auto World, extremely knowlegable guy. I did have some questions on the dodge front axle. Is it going to work on my dually if I find/purchase offset spacers? I would like to have a solid axle. Also anyone who has done a similar conversion in this era of truck any suggestions/help would be much appreciated! I can hardly wait to get that beast in my truck

 

[Pmaloney]

I was also wondering on the wiring what to keep and what not to and how the ECM outputs will interact with my factory instrument cluster. Any Ideas???

 

[Pmaloney]

Ok I'm assuming there are quite a few people out there who have performed 24 Valve swaps can anyone offer some assistance on any of the wiring???

 

[Pmaloney]

I'm pretty positive that these posts are making it to everyone, arent they?!? mabee I should do my own research and keep my answers to myself? (I will thank Malcolm though, but I figured there may be others that were considering a similar swap and may have wanted to "follow a thread")

 

[24VChev]

wiring

Good luck on your conversion to a Chevummins. The wiring is fairly straight forward. There is a good schematic on www.dodgeram.org. I installed a Ford Dana 60 under my truck as I went with leaf spring front end, alot easier to set up than a four link style. You can get all the brackets to convert your truck to solid axle from offroad unlimited. For steering I went with OTT industries crossover setup. Works really well. See my pics on readers rigs.



Malcolm

 

[RyanB]

I to am converting to my 88-98 2wd Chevy Dually to 4wd and dropping a cummins into it, only a 12 valve! I am using a 1998 Dodge dually Dana60 front and it seems to be going pretty good so far. I have all the brakets made to mount the links to the frame and the spring pockets on the frame work great only real mod I had to do was take the spring holders on the axle off and mount my own so that I could run the GM coils which are 1. 5" smaller in diameter. I also cut the cross-member down and it fits the axle great now. So far it sits a little high yet so once everything is figured out I will cut the springs down an inch or 2 or 3. The GM coils are much stronger than the dodge springs or so they look!



As for the engine... I just got it mounted in on the weekend. Tight fit but it works, the hardest part of the hole conversion so far was figuring out the 6-speed and how to make it site and how low I could make it sit. I landed up making a crossmember out of 3" channel and some 6" flat stock. I made it hange down 2" below the frame and it looks like it is going to work great! Yesterday I just got working on the intercooler. I used a Duramax intercooler which has much more surface area than the dodge unit does. It was a tight fit but its going to work. It reaches out to the lights or a little past them so what I am doing there is putting a 1/4" spacer behind them which will bring the lights flush with the grill.





If you have any other questions let me know and I can probably help you out with them. I also have pics of how I did the mounts and the 4x4 conversion comming within the next week or so.



Good luck... Ryan

 

[JLEONARD]

Tight fit but it works

You should see how one fits in my son's 95 S-10 :-laf :-laf

Look in my "reader's rigs" for pics.

Jay