RVS said: (quoted from post at 08:52:39 06/18/15) I have a complete donor truck engine tranny and all the bits and pieces. Was going to put the whole unit in the 79 but the driveshaft for the front diff is on the wrong side. that is why I was going to use the original tranny. Will have to look into the torque converter and see if this worth the work. Just have some time off from work this summer and if I'm working on a truck in the shop it keeps me out of my wife's line of sight. This will be a toy project not an everyday driver or work truck.Thanks for the info from everyone. Will let you know if and when I get started and how it works out.
You will need to swap entire wire harness from the dash and the ECM from the diesel in as well.+ the rad and oil cooler and numerous other things.
And The brake booster as well
You will curse the day you started on it.
This post was edited by bison at 18:27:32 06/18/15 2 times.
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