Mike96c1500
Newbie
Hello all,
I new here. I’ve been reading a lot of threads on LS swaps. I see there’s many different ways to get the job done, but I’d like everyone’s opinion.
I have a 96 rcsb 2wd with the 5.0 4l60e. I just got a donor truck. It’s a 2002 2500 rclb 2wd with the LQ4 & 4l80E. It’s got 95k on it. It runs and drives great but it’s all rusted out. I’m going to swap the motor and trans into the 96. Since I have the motor, trans, pcm, wiring harness, and all accessories, what would be the best plan of attack? I was planning on putting in the drive train stock and getting it all up and running. Then later on I could rebuild and hop it up. I’ve seen people say modify the old wiring harness, I’ve seen others say use the one from the donor. It seems that using the one from the donor would be easiest to me but I’ve never done this before. It seems like it would be the easiest way to get everything up and running because the pcm is already set up for that combo. The only hard part would be getting the A/C and gauges to work. Thanks in advance. Mike
I new here. I’ve been reading a lot of threads on LS swaps. I see there’s many different ways to get the job done, but I’d like everyone’s opinion.
I have a 96 rcsb 2wd with the 5.0 4l60e. I just got a donor truck. It’s a 2002 2500 rclb 2wd with the LQ4 & 4l80E. It’s got 95k on it. It runs and drives great but it’s all rusted out. I’m going to swap the motor and trans into the 96. Since I have the motor, trans, pcm, wiring harness, and all accessories, what would be the best plan of attack? I was planning on putting in the drive train stock and getting it all up and running. Then later on I could rebuild and hop it up. I’ve seen people say modify the old wiring harness, I’ve seen others say use the one from the donor. It seems that using the one from the donor would be easiest to me but I’ve never done this before. It seems like it would be the easiest way to get everything up and running because the pcm is already set up for that combo. The only hard part would be getting the A/C and gauges to work. Thanks in advance. Mike