Crash course,3.0 5speed swap

[derrik]

So a bit of a verbal update and lack of pics -_- I left my phone on the charger when I left to go work on the truck.a good friend of mine from so-cal was in norcal for training.we ended up making a last minute decision to wrench on the truck.I got the trans stabbed,downpipe bolted up,starter in place,the auto driveshaft does not work on the manual.the output shaft diameter is bigger on the manual than the auto.good thing I grabbed the driveshaft from the junkyard doner!
Now the tricky part,my friend is a foxbody enthusiast.he is convinced that all I should have to switch for electrics is the ECU and the trans harness that shoots through the drivers side frame rail.the one that houses the rear lights and fuel pump wires.since he knows more than me,I am going to try it his way.but I have read a few times that if the auto harness is used that there are a few pins that have to be swapped /installed and wires ran. Part of the reason im going along with his idea is that we found the clutch master cylinder plug capped with a factory bypass insert in the auto harness.so I am going to compare the big firewall connector between the auto and manual harness hopefully this saturday and try to get it going.the pedal assembly is also installed and the dash is damn near removed. There will be crappy cell phone pics on saturday if I make it out that way!

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[derrik]

Welp......yup.....5speed is bolted in and all the "easy" work is done.....

This is where I left off with my buddie convincing me that we should be able to get it going with the auto harness no problems.

Lets just say,im not an easy one to convince.switching out harness' just made more sense to me,and with numerous people saying thats the way they did it...I might as well follow their lead if their trucks are all operational. This is where todays festivities ended unfortunatly.I am prepping for a week long trip to so-cal on streetbike so going over the bike took precedence.

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[derrik]

So ive been neglecting my thread,I havnt been taking the pics I should.either way,it was a pretty straight forward swap since I just swapped out most of the wiring harness's,the only ones I didnt switch out was the headlight section and the harness that runs along the drivers side rail,they are the same,I had to swap out the fuel injector harness because thats what holds the connectors for the automatic trans.today was the first time the truck drove in 5years,quite exciting. Only drawback is it is loosing its atf out of the thans input shaft seal(assuming this),it has a pretty bad miss,and the trans is kinda noisy.and the strangest thing,the power steering pump is held at an angle so the belt squeals? Ive never seen this problem before -_- either way the truck is saved from pick a part for a bit longer

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