95 Dodge Ram 2500 4x4 V10 eng plow truck
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05-09-2012, 10:29 AM
#12
05-09-2012, 04:39 PM
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You are Right and Wrong
Right - The 95 is OBDI which uses less electronics for the engine/transmission.
Wrong - The V10 Intake manifold doesn't swap with the V8's nor do the sensors/wiring, etc. Its completely different as is the transmission.
See next response below
It really wouldn't be hard and I don't even think you'd need to change your driveshafts as the 47RH and the 46RE are the same length from what I've seen. If anything the transfer case may be the only difference in lengths.
Your 1999 uses a new computer for the guages, engine, and transmission as you already know. The 95 uses a 47RH tranny that doesn't rely on the computer for most of its shifting (only overdrive I believe). The rest of the wiring harness would need to be swapped with the engine as well, including the dash. If anything doing it this way is easier than if you had the older truck and were trying to put parts from a newer truck in it.
Everything would drop in and bolt right up, if you had a donor truck it makes life much easier. There is a guy over at ********* . com who is doing a similar swap now and seems to be going easy.
A lot of nay sayers have never even attempted something like this yet think it can't be done - I had a lot of that when swapping my 99 2500 from an Auto to a Manual and it ended up literally being a direct bolt in and go swap, very easy to do. Yet people made it sound impossible.
I'd say go for it, the V10 has a ton of torque and will make that little truck move well.
Right - The 95 is OBDI which uses less electronics for the engine/transmission.
Wrong - The V10 Intake manifold doesn't swap with the V8's nor do the sensors/wiring, etc. Its completely different as is the transmission.
See next response below
It really wouldn't be hard and I don't even think you'd need to change your driveshafts as the 47RH and the 46RE are the same length from what I've seen. If anything the transfer case may be the only difference in lengths.
Your 1999 uses a new computer for the guages, engine, and transmission as you already know. The 95 uses a 47RH tranny that doesn't rely on the computer for most of its shifting (only overdrive I believe). The rest of the wiring harness would need to be swapped with the engine as well, including the dash. If anything doing it this way is easier than if you had the older truck and were trying to put parts from a newer truck in it.
Everything would drop in and bolt right up, if you had a donor truck it makes life much easier. There is a guy over at ********* . com who is doing a similar swap now and seems to be going easy.
A lot of nay sayers have never even attempted something like this yet think it can't be done - I had a lot of that when swapping my 99 2500 from an Auto to a Manual and it ended up literally being a direct bolt in and go swap, very easy to do. Yet people made it sound impossible.
I'd say go for it, the V10 has a ton of torque and will make that little truck move well.
Nobody ever said it can't be done. Anything can be done. But what I will say is that when the OP goes to get his new swapped truck emissions tested or something like that, he will automatically fail, due to the fact that he no longer has the OBD2 port that they use on a '99 truck.
You are comparing swapping a transmission out (a common swap that TONS of people have done successfully) to swapping the entire brain, drivetrain, and half the interior out, so that then he has a truck that won't be able to be street legal. Unless he acquires several major parts from a third truck.
Last edited by Wombat Ranger; 05-09-2012 at 04:42 PM.
#13
05-09-2012, 04:50 PM
....Nobody ever said it can't be done. Anything can be done. But what I will say is that when the OP goes to get his new swapped truck emissions tested or something like that, he will automatically fail, due to the fact that he no longer has the OBD2 port that they use on a '99 truck.
That's an interesting complication that I had not even thought of. I may go back to the thread on ABS where the memebr was talking about just disconnecting it. That would probably be a fail also!
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05-09-2012, 04:55 PM
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05-09-2012, 04:59 PM
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05-10-2012, 07:12 AM
Where I work at there is a 99 2500 that my boss has, but it has been sitting for some time. I asked one of the guts what is wrong with the truck and all he could tell me is the injecters are bad and it didn't run right. I wait down there and looked at the truck yesterday and I be damn the dash is good and no rust in the doors at all. It has a 360 auto. THe truck was built to lower to the ground so you could load it with very little help, but by doing so the ear was removed so it runs on the front drive shaft ONLY. I need to get some pictures. What a setup it is JUNK in my book. He was unable to sale the truck so now it sits. I have been meaning to ask him about the truck abd will do so today if I see him
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05-10-2012, 07:23 AM
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05-10-2012, 10:39 AM
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Come on now. PA inspections aren't that tough. Although he will fail for not having the obd2 port in his truck for them to plug into and get the information needed. The swap is possible but like its been said its alot of work and probably not worth it in the end. Unless your building a truck that wont be on the street.
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05-11-2012, 01:30 AM
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05-11-2012, 06:48 AM
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if you get caught uninspected here, and get ticketed its a 62 dollar fine, and more if you take it to court to fight it.
however, if you pass safety, and fail the obd inspection they put a clear sticker with your birth month on it, and it makes it look like there is nothing there. so if you havent got the money to get it inspected, you can just take your old sticker off and it the cops cant tell!