the swap begins

[Wtfan18]

alright heres the update. so some buddies came over sunday night and we put the bed on the truck and took it for a few rides. well needless to say its pretty discusting. with the stock gears it gets 4th gear rubber and at roughly 70 in 6th gear it luggs so i need my 4:56s in the worst way. to be honest im a bit afraid of how its going to go after they are in. im not used to a v8 and this truck gets 4th gear rubber now.... the clutch is really tight. and it goes awesome! i busted my rear u joint last night so i bought a bit beffier one. so hopefully it holds up. i still need my intake, traction bars, lsd, gears, and a few other small goodies. but i am soo happy with how it turned out. the motor is silent doesnt tick or anything and the corsa sport sounds discusting. ill try to get vids tomorrow for ya'll. its hard though every gas station up here stopped selling 93 so i might have to travel with a few 5 gallon cans to get some.... and start storing it at the house or something.... oh and my neighbor already flipped on me haha. he's a dbag anyways... but i am overly happy. thanks to everyone who helped! its not done yet but nearing the finish line...

[RedHeartbeat]

When you get the LSD installed you need to drive over to the neighbors and do so doughnuts/brodies in his lawn.

[Wtfan18]

When you get the LSD installed you need to drive over to the neighbors and do so doughnuts/brodies in his lawn.

haha oh yes greg i cant wait for that auburn hes getting a nice set laid down right in front of his house. maybe ill back into his driveway. the guy yelled at me for drifting my tacoma in the snow at 1 in the morning saying that there could have been kids in the road... there is a total of about 5 houses on the road i was on... hes a total jerk... and i was in my house first. he just moved in a few years ago posted the 4 wheeling trails etc. he deserves it. he asked me if i s*** where i ate lol I JUST LAUGHED IN HIS FACE... i hate killers of fun.

[RedHeartbeat]

he asked me if i s*** where i ate

Should have offered to s*** where he eats.

[ducky]

yeah I hate killers of fun too. when I got the turbo I laid two fat strips in front of my house where my parents live. Well the neighbors across the street didnt like that, but I couldnt hear them yelling at me over the sound of my turbo

[beater6.0]

well on my 98 sending unit its 40 ohms to 248 ohms and i thought the 97 and earlyer was 0 to 90

[Wtfan18]

please let me know what you find out because i really want it to work properly... id rather not changed my pump etc but a resistor would be nice... where exaclty would the resisitor go???

[RedHeartbeat]

Do you still have the stock 1998 PCM in the truck? If not, reinstall it. Or did you remove all the wiring that wasn't being used or plugged into the new engine.

If you have removed all the goods, you can buy a fuel bucket from a 96-97 model salvage truck and swap it out with yours or at least trade out the float level mechanism somehow. The resistor block that the arm sweeps against is what you will probably need. Trace back the wiring that goes from the float to the PCM an splice that wire to the wire that goes to the fuel level gauge in the instrument cluster.

[NITROUS]

Greg is right but I believe you'll have to replace the fuel pump also since the 98's come as a complete sending fuel pump unit. The variable resistor on the sending unit for the 96-97 trucks has to be the key to making the 98 work unless we can put a resistor of some sort in line.. This is part of the reason why Dakota Digital won't make the 96-2000 cluster.

[beater6.0]

the sending unit on the 98 comes off at least the one i have does lol. if not use a big hammer lol