So I have a horrible sinus infection which lead to inner ear infections on BOTH ears, and has generally been a shitty experience. My right ear drum popped from pressure, my left one is trying, and everything is muffled. I can't work right now, so I'm home, stuck inside, waiting for the antibiotics to work. In the meantime I've slept too much and now have become a night owl. Thus I think too much lol. 

Anyway, rambling aside, here's my idea/question. 

I like my truck, but it's not exactly everything I want. I've also been jonesing for a nice longbed square body Chevy. But I only have room for one truck in my life right now. Thus, the idea. 

I'm wondering how hard it would be to mount a sc/lb Chevy body on my dodge frame. I keep all the bulletproof and nice suspension (my truck came with a Carli 3" lift), plus my engine, trans, tcase, and a wicked rear end. I gain easy body part availability, and can build a square body from a magazine pretty much. 

My only hangup is how to get the 24v to work with the Chevy body. Gauges are no problem. I can run my fuel pump off a switch, and my grid heaters as well. But getting the ECM to work right is my question. Will it have to be reprogrammed to run stand alone? Now, you're probably asking "Rave, why go through all that when you could swap a 12v in it and be done"? Well, because I don't want to lose my programmer for one(I flipping love my quadzilla), everyone else has already done it, and mainly because I have everything other than a clean body. Fabrication doesn't scare me,but I've been bit by Chrysler and their pita electronics a few times, and they taint everything they touch. 

 

But if this is an absolute **** idea, tell me. If not, well, I'll look for a clean Chevy body lol.

On 9/29/2019 at 3:22 PM, Mopar1973Man said:

There is truth in that statement. I'll admit it freely being I deal with it daily. 

 

As for Ford or Chevy you are trading on problem for another. Sad part is the electrics have to follow to be right. Nothing to gain. Then if you ditch it then it get even worse with diagnostic being broke and OBDII plug no longer. Then all the other thing trying to make it work. Body is a body. But making the Cummins work in another body fully is near impossible to keep all the functions working completely.

Dodge electrics...... now thats why they don't work so good

1998.5 to 2002 was a red headed step child truck. What I've found out back in 1996 we still had the p-pump but federal regulations forced the OBDII requirement on all vehicles. This meant that Dodge had to upgrade to something. I found that Dodge was already playing with CR injection was hoping to get that finished up so to make the deadline they released the VP44 engine to fill the gap till CR injection could be finished. This means that Dodge chopped right in the ECM and made a mess out of the electrical to stack in the ECM quickly. This was done away with in the CR realm. So we have the redheaded step children of trucks. 

 

 

Like a duckling in a chicken nest?

Holy heck I didn't know this thread got so big

On 10/3/2019 at 10:18 AM, wil440 said:

Dodge electrics...... now thats why they don't work so good

Mike Nelson said, 'go plug your RV in over there'. Waited for just the right moment, and got me in the face'.