86 M1008 LM7 Swap

[LateOnTheBrakes]

I tried to move ahead with the Griffin radiator that came with the truck and some flex hoses. My plan was to use a mechanical fan from the early LS engines and the shroud from the SBC.

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The LS intake did not play nicely with the fan shroud and the fan did not reach into the shroud well enough to get good airflow.

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Next was integrating the homemade LS harness I made just to make sure the engine ran and remove the rat's nest of wiring the truck previously had.

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I knew I wasn't going to happy with the exhaust or wiring so I ordered a painless kit and a set of the Schoenfeld headers that I heard would fit with the 4WD and a manual trans.

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The headers did not fit inside the frame rails without some persuasion. I did not want to grind down the frame rail so I took a hammer to the headers themselves. I'm not sure I would recommend these to anyone. In retrospect I should have swapped to an internal hydraulic slave cylinder and throwout bearing and gone to some block hugging headers.

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Got the headers, O2 sensors, and slave cylinder installed finally.

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It ran (without rod knock) and kept all its parts on the inside.

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Next up was trying to polish this turd a little bit to keep it's vital fluids inside. The slip yoke was a rusted mess. Don't make the mistake of trying to clean up the yoke, just buy a new one. It is still going to trash the seal and leak.

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Next I spent some time figuring out how the hell I was going to get the power steering pump installed and figuring out why there was so much slop in the shift linkages. Turns out you have to remove the entire accessory drive, install the pump, and reinstall the drive. The shifter for the transfer case was also missing bushings and hardware.

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Next I moved on to figuring out why the brakes completely sucked. The amount of things I found wrong are truly astounding.

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Got some new wheel studs and repacked the bearings while I had everything apart.

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Next was trying to figure out why the shifter was so damned sloppy.

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[LateOnTheBrakes]

I watched a few youtube videos about shoving in a pin and welding it. It made it significantly better, but it is still sloppy to this day.

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