had this truck since I was in high school. Really only drove it for a couple of years inbetween various stages of building. Here's a few pictures up to date. The 6.0 came from a high km's work truck from the company my wife works for, it's a 4wd so I'll have to convert that over to 2wd. I'm planning on using as much of the electronics as possible including the fuse panel and relay center, as my original harness is a rats nest, and maybe even the dash and gauges set up. I'm concerned with a few things with the swap, mainly the vats, and the fuel supply. I know a custom tune can take care of the vats, and I'm sure I can make something work for the fuel system from what I see on other projects here. But I'm trying to do this ultra low buck. We just bought a house, and renos are following. Only paid 500 bucks for the truck, and I'm hoping to sell the diffs and t/case to a friend of mine to recover those costs and maybe a tune, as for added hp's that will have to come later on, I just want to drive this thing.

 

I'll get some more pictures of my air ride set up and donor vehicle parts pile and previous work from years past up tonight, I'm just effin the dog at work right now.

 

I did a swap like this last summer, was fun to do and the truck was awesome when I was done. Vats is not an issue, mail order pcm or hptuners can take car of it. If you can find an 87 truck in the wreckers, the tanks are the same as yours. You can steal the hangers for the pump and put stock pump from 6.0 on it. If you have dual tanks, this is a little more complicated as you have to put a high pressure switch valve in. As the one I did had dual tanks, I bought a walbro 255 hp (way overkill but was on sale on ebay for same price as smaller ones) external and mounted it in front of tank switching valve. I used -6 braided line and fuel injection repair clamps, a early 90s ford truck fuel filter(designed for high pressure, has right size in and out, and cheap!), and a pair of adapters that are like 30$ available from autovalue parts store(also available from nook and tranny on ebay). Saved buying a lot of an fittings and worked well.
I modded the stock engine harness removing the unrequired wires and mounted the stock engine fuse box on the driver fender. Powered up the fuse box off the firewall, left truck wiring seperate. Used stock th400.
The cruise control can be made to work, you will need the brake switch from a th350C equiped truck to get the right signals.

Looks like fun, good luck!

 

little more, comp engineering four link, 2" z'd front made my own bag cups at plates in front, home made notch out back. used to be a long box, now a shortbox, new rockers, cab corners, fenders small patches in floor too.

 

Yea I knew about the later model tanks and what not, but I have a cell in the box, i don't want a tank hanging below the frame, I've allready takin a bit of the frame off from grinding at 60mph. I'm a manager at an auto and industrial supply store so access to various parts... cheap! I appreciate the info though thanks. I'm not to worried about makin it work, It's Just gonna be time consuming, which is okay, lots of time, very little money, oh well.

 

here's the most recent pics

 

few more, I'll try to keep the pics coming but don't expect this to happen too fast. I'm thinking six months for the engine swap and interior, paint maybe in a year, so don't get too excited. last one is my daily, actually my wife drives it most of the time, I work out of town so I take her sx2.0, booh!

 

Very cool project man!

 

Looks a bit like a truck I saw in truckin or street truck. The 6.0 will be mean in there!

 

heck yea it's gonna be mean, right now I'm just gonna drop it in with a zero dollar budget and drive the **** out of it. then in a year or so yank it and do some internal engine work, I'm seein lots of turbo projects that are really tweakin my intrest!