waited a long time

First off glad to be here i have waited a LONG long time to post here and its finnaly here. i have a 96 obs swbexc truck and i am finnaly swapping out my tired 305. i just bought an 6.0 and 4l80E out of a 05 3/4 ton with all the accesories. i bought the schoenfields the BRP adapters i am ready the question is when i called nelson today i said i want to drive by cable not wire. She said i should get the custom harness and PCM from them. which i said i would but then she said my speedo wont work. my question is whats not going to work what else am i going to have to splice? i really just want to plug and play maybe have the 2 harnesses mated is there such a service thanks for the help.

Also which TB do i need to buy for the 6.0 to drive by cable?

Thanks in advance

Eddie

Welcome to the site. I did a swap on a 1990 RCSB so mine was different. We have quite a few swaps done here. Maybe someone that did a 96 will chime in. Can you still get the pedal and module from the truck to keep your DBW? That would be the easier way to do the swap.

Hey bud welcome, are you sure its a 6.0, not insulting your intelligance but my buddy bought a 6.0 bolted to a 4l80e out of an 05 3/4 tons, turns out that 6.0 is a 5.3 some of the long bed 05 3/4 tons are 5.3s

All you gotta do is feed the 05's speedo output into your truck harness speedo input...the GM (I should say our trucks) speedos for the most part use the standard 4k feed, even back into my year range (91) and probably a little earlier.
I swapped an 0411 into my 98 tahoe using Lextech's spreadsheet and my speedo works fine, which tells me that it is plug and play. Should be the same for you, also. My 0411 directly feeds my 91's cluster, no issues.
the pinout for your 96 is here
http://www.lt1swap.com/1996_vortec_5.7/index.htm

the pinout for your 2005 is here
http://www.lt1swap.com/2004vortec_pcm.htm

that lt1swap site is awesome, btw.

The owner of the junkyard said its a 6.0 and the vin did as well is there another way? i will look into the site for the pin out thank you

with that being said do i need a custom harness or do i just use the one that came with the 6.0?

and will the ac work or do i need to re-wire that?

could look on the block behind the ps pump and Alternator bracket and it should say 6.0 and if its a 5.3 it will say 5.3/4.8

I've got a brand new nelson harness for sale and it's setup for cable driven nt electronic tb.with PCM.I ended buying a 2000 gmc so no need for the harness I bought or schoenfields.pm me if interested,I'll give u a great deal.also the cable from the pedal on ur 96 is long enough to be used on ur 6.0 intake tb.

took the pump off she is a 6.0 awesome!

Congrats man!

done i will post pics later, runs great its bogging down under intial acceleration though.

with pictures

damn man i like that truck!!! it looks good with them stock rim on her....i question for you, do you know what are the sizes on the fuel/return lines..

mine with exact same problem was the maf, yours could be the maf's location. looks good

5/16 i did the corvette filter trick

Mr. Cleans truck! lol Looks nice man. Question: With regards to the a/c wiring, do you have the computer controlling it, or just the low-pressure switch(only) on the accumalator, the same as it was originally? Again...beautiful workmanship.

Wow that thing is one of my new favorite OBS's. Definitely a sick interior.

That's awesome! What are those seats out of??

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That's awesome! What are those seats out of??

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Those are just recovered OBS seats, they came in the 94-98 interiors.

they are the stock seat recovered that correct leather with suede inserts. there is a guy i know with these seats that took the head rest off and had it redone now that looks really good kindda a hot rod look, but i thought it would look stupid on an ex cab. as far as the AC goes i had it wired in no separate harness i used the DBW and the 05 PCM and they wrote it all in.

the one thing i did do that i found out from a friend who put E-fans in another Vehicle is that 01-03 ford windstar fans will bolt right in, i bought the painless CPU controled relays and those things are a dream, i paid 15 bucks for the fans at PICK N PULL and worked great no issues keep this thing cool even in Hot Summer traffic. Just a suggestion.

Absolutely KILLER!

Jesus...Just everything about it is perfect. My 95 engine bay will hopefully look just like this in the near future, except I think I'm going with the 5.3.

thanks man i appreciate it. it used to be a sheet rock truck the roof of the cab shows it

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the one thing i did do that i found out from a friend who put E-fans in another Vehicle is that 01-03 ford windstar fans will bolt right in, i bought the painless CPU controled relays and those things are a dream, i paid 15 bucks for the fans at PICK N PULL and worked great no issues keep this thing cool even in Hot Summer traffic. Just a suggestion.

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What size radiator are you running? On my swap Im going with a 34" radiator and ran accross this post and was wondering how the winstar fans would work on it. Thanks for the info!

Very nice swap BTW!

i bought an aluminum one a while back it was the 40" from summit and the fans fit just fine on it. The fan shrouds mount the radiator so i just (neatly) trimmed up the Fan shrouds and mounted the fans on that. it looks stock and cools great i think i am more proud of the fans than the entire thing. and the fans are the exact height of our radiators so you dont have to worry about them bending fins and causing leaks (which would suck).

Thanks for the info! I would love to see more pics if you have any. The custom little things always make a big difference when your doing the fab work. thanks!