Finished Finally!!!! Wow!!!!

[RRamsey]

Drove my commonrail powered 98 home last night, Wow was it worth it!!! After tightening the last bolt I filled the engine with coolant and fired it up. After the t-stat opened and one last search for leaks or problems, I closed the hood and took it for a drive at almost midnight! It ran perfect, the transition from 12v to commonrail went perfect, no check-engine lights, everything worked flawless!!! It is like driving a new truck, the 12v I took out would definatly eat the *** out of the C/R, but the c/r would give it a good run! The c/r is still stock 325hp so it would be expected that my faithfull 12v stronger with the mods I had. I just finished loading the revo/tnt software into my smarty but have never used a smarty before so I dont know what the catcher levels for the tnt programs are. what am I safe with? When I was re-flashing the ecm on the engine I discovered the engine was a 07 not an 06, the motor is bone stock, I am running a bhaf, 4" exhaust and a holley blue supply pump. My trans is a 47/48re built, no billet shafts, TCS billet 3-disc low stall convertor, stock flex-plate. any ideas?



Special Thank's to all my friends who helped contribute to this swap!!!

Rusty @ TCS

Scott @ De-Stroked

Bob @ Smarty

Kirk @ Premier Performance

Crew @ Autoworld

Bean @ Beans Diesel Performance

Robert @ Continental transmission



Special Laughs For the people who were to good to help, or gave more screwed up information than a retard could give me!!!



Painless performance , Thank's for nothin but lies! threw your crap in the garbage, Worst tech support ever!!!! 1000. 00 down the ****ter!



Fordcummins.com all I can say is they should fire the blind third grader that is doing their welding, and the moron who designed the kit's! Funny how their

bell-housing adapters look very similar to a prototype of someone else's adapter, almost like a copy? who the hell would butcher a good trans case??? nuff said...



and to all the know nothing "know-it-alls" who told me that various components wouldnt work or I would have to do this or that to make it fit, etc. Don't give people info if you dont really know if it is right or not, thank-you for attempting to help, but your info could have cost me big dough if I would have listened. fortunately I went with my instinct and it payed off!





The only 2 glitches in the whole swap were a result of faulty parts, other than that everything worked perfect from the first try, It runs like it came in the truck from the factory! will post pics of the whole install.

 

[TDC]

Sounds like a hell of a lot of work... Nice job... Where did you end up getting the harrness??

 

[Bob Wagner]

Congratulation Robert. Can wait to see the pictures

 

[RRamsey]

TDC,



I made my own harness, thats where the "special thanks to my friends" comes in. It turned out to be incredibly simple, I have been driving it for 3 days now without a single glitch. It simply runs fantastic!!!! I loaded the Smarty with the TNT program on #4 stock timing, Holy Crap!!!! My special thank's to Bob Wagner, this Smarty ROCKS!!! I recommend the Smarty to everyone, hands down the best tuner I have ever used! The truck has been running perfect, I couldnt be any happier than I am, this is the best install I have ever done. I have roughly 30hrs total in the swap, I had a helper that pulled the 12v and helped set the c/r in place, everything else I did myself. The motor is so smooth and quiet, it pulls hard and seems to be getting awesome mpg. The exhaust sounds absolutely baddass, it is the best sounding exhaust I have heard on a c/r, just a simple Diamond-eye 4". All I have left to say Is,,, I LOVE IT!!!Oo.

 

[MEby]

Hey i'm curious why would you remove a 12v to put in a cr? Looks good by the way.

 

[amsoilman]

Years ago, I put a 1958 318 CI V-8 in a 1951 Dodge pickup, which people said it wouldn't work! Well let me tell you, it did work, and worked well, Was a real smooth running truck, and lasted a long time!

Sometimes one has to go by the seat of their pants, so to speak.

 

[Cummins Thunder]

I would love to do that swap! I have been toying with the idea for quite some time. I would like to do it to the 01 since it is fully loaded and rides MUCH better than the 02 (Lorenz 2. 25 on order to help that).

I am just worried about having tons of electrical issues. Maybe you can go into a little more detail on harness modifications? Did you retain the 2nd gen instrument cluster? and it works correctly?



VERY awesome setup! Im jealous...

 

[Alphacowboy]

glad it worked out! I really want to do this eventually some day. If my '00 was in better shape I would do this in a heart beat and put the 24v in my work van... . some day!

 

[EBung]

Painless isnt that a oxymoron? I have been wanting to do the same thing and even asked about it on here and got nothing but noway noway! I knew it wasnt rocket science! Way to go!

 

[KKaufman]

As much of a 12-valve guy as I am, I've gotta say, the motor looks like it was meant to be in there. BTW, very clean rig you got there!

 

[grimesja]

RRamsey,

Where did you find a motor to make the swap at a reasonable cost or was the ranformation reasonable Here in North Florida, you might as well buy a new truck. Those engines are like gold to the salvage folks.

What do you guys think about replacing the 24 V with a 12 V?