i am thinking of doin it. i know jake was gunna do it soon i cant rememberif he diecided not too. well does anyone know how hard it would be on a truck like this. it doesnt look too bad the only hard part would be the pedals and mounting it to the frame. any info would be much appreciated.

 

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i would do it my self. i would just have to buy the new tranny though

 

I had looked into it when I had a '97 5.9l (gasser) 1500, and it didn't look TOO difficult, obviously there are some particulars to each situation, however the biggest issue is $ like bajafun said. Do your homework, and take trips to junkyards and such, the parts should mount up like stock setup (There was a manual diesel option in 2001 right?) if you just get the stock transmission cross member, and get a set of stock pedals. Good luck, I was 95% certain I could have done it in my old truck when I decided the money I needed to put into that thing was not worth it and just decided to get the one I got now.

 

yah the 2001's could come manual.yah i will have to start collecting parts.

 

Go for it, the only reason I didn't do it was because I had 150k on my old truck and it needed more then just tranny work, I also wanted engine work and such, I basically was planning on a custom rebuild with some more then excessive mods to get the towing capabilities the CTDs have...
Good luck!

 

Got the trans sitting on the bench in the shop. Done some research and it looks like its gonna be pretty easy. Not sure when I'll be getting to it, hopefully within the next 2 months.

 

make sure you record every thing!!

 

Will do

 

Cool.. At some point, I may consider going from an 6 speed to an auto Would be interested how difficult the swap was. Good luck!