Hi i have a 1995 dakota 2WD with a 318 under a 100,000 miles and its pretty clean with a 40 series exhaust, Flowtech smog headers, TB spacer, Jet Performance module, K&N intake and a bunch more. Unfortunally its an auto and im looking to do a manual swap. How hard is it going to be and about how much would it run me? Would the trany out of a 95 v6 work? Any input would help! Thanks everyone

 

Welcome to DodgeForum!!

First of all, get rid of the TB spacer and JET chip... they are about as useful as paper weights. The TB spacer does nothing on port injection motors, and after a few days, the computer will learn how to get past the JET chip and I've heard horror stories of those JET Chips frying the computer.

As for the swap... not hard to do at all! I did one on my 4x4 a little over a year ago and I love it!! Here is the link to my write up...

https://dodgeforum.com/forum/1st-gen...-5-2l-4x4.html

Read through it and then ask any questions you still have.

As for the AX-15 (v6 manual transmission)... you really don't want one. It may work for a while, but it just isn't designed to handle the torque of the v8. There is a reason Dodge put the AX-15 behind the 4 cyl and v6 and not the v8! You will want to look for an NV3500.

 

Okay now i just need to find all the stuff to do the swap. I think im going to just tear the whole truck apart for paint so that will help. Thanks for everything!