Here is the future home of the engine... original paint and interior, rust free, black plates still, etc.

Should be a fun project I think.

(I'll be doing everything mechanical to it completely..then it will go back to Oz and get painted and trimmed. Will be my buddy's truck)

Going to keep it basically stock looking inside and out aside from a few little touches here and there.

Your lawn looks like it's been smited badly.

Water restrictions here...wanna mail me a few flat rate boxes full of water for the lawn?

Looks like your neighbor installed astroturf.

I'll send the oxygen you supply the hydrogen.

Aren't you by the Pacific Ocean?

No problem, I have hydrogen coming out of everywhere.

And the ocean is for looking at, not for watering with.

Did you ever get a harness and re-program?

No, was waiting to get the truck before I got into the harness and everything. I plan to do the mechanical side of the swap first...getting the engine actually mounted and everything. Then will tackle all of the electrical side of things next, then probably go to the fuel/cooling side, etc. Or just see what order of doing things makes the most sense.

Truck will have vintage air as well, plus need to decide on an upgraded diff and a few other little things.

Oz,
Did you also get the Trans Yoke? You'll find that the yoke is unique to the truck T-56... and you'll likely be unsuccessful finding one from the aftermarket. The truck version is very beefy/thick. You could also swap out the tail shaft for a viper one - which has the standard yoke size. This is based on my experience on 04/05's, however.


Post a vid once you get it in and running: Here is a followup on mine after getting the harness and ECU reprogrammed: V10 fire up

It's not a T56...it's an auto trans version being from a crew cab. (The single cab srt's used the 6 speed)

Will check out your fire up too.

Looks like plenty of room....right?

Will be getting rid of the heater box and plating the firewall flat there and use a vintage air.

Woah... woah... woah... Where was my phone call? I want to play!

I was just thinking today (while taking out the heater stuff in the engine bay and the old rear engine cross member) about texting you a pic, but got sidetracked

Just been doing some cleaning up/reorganizing some stuff in the garage too so I have room to bring the engine/trans home, it is still down at the warehouse. I have to go down there Friday for something else, not sure if I will bring it back just quite yet or not.

Let me know when you're going to work on it. I'm free labor.

That sounds handy!

I am going to load another container next week, and will bring the engine home after that to start mocking things up to get it mounted.

In the mean time, open up and say...ahhhhhhhh...


I pulled the grill and core support today, and just set the grill back in loose for now. It'll make it much easier putting the engine in and out with out having to go up and over the core support of course, now I can just roll it straight in and out basically with the engine hoist and not have to go all too high.

I have the Torana in the garage along with room for the engine/trans plus all sorts of other assorted junk or would be doing this work inside of course..will make do for now on the driveway though.

(Once I get the engine home and actually start properly on the project I'll probably start a build thread in the general section...since it is only part Mopar and all.. ha ha)