83 suburban 6.2 auto-93 6.5+5 speed swap

[ThatOneGuy]

Well sometime soon Im going to begin my swap. I have an 83 suburban I cut up and turned into an avalance . Now the 6.2 is tierd out (along with the tranny) and misplaced all the antifreeze into the pan so I found a 93 chevy 2500 with a 6.5 and a 5 speed and paid a grand for it and drove it home.

What I would like to know is if anyone else has done a similar or the same swap and from my knowledge its a mechanical pump and should be a fairly straight forward swap with the hydrolic clutch. I would also like to take the guages and fit them in the dash of the burban and try n get away with having the speedo tach and rest of the guadges work.

Thanks
Joe

Donor truck



Suburbalanche

[Edahall]

The NV4500 is a few inches shorter so it looks like some modifications to the drivelines will be needed.

As far as gauges, some of the newer square bodied styled Trucks/Suburbans that had TBI engines used an electrical speedometer. You might be better off to find one of these. On my Suburban, I moved the fuel gauge down to the blank on the lower left and installed an aftermarket RPM gauge in its place. It looks stock.

[Edahall]

Here's a picture of my dash to show you what I mean.

[ThatOneGuy]

thanks for the pic! I dont know what Ill do but itll be down the road when I decide, but the dash will probly end up being custom since I want to put lots of guadges in it


thanks
Joe

[ThatOneGuy]

Well 2 cousins and me got really bored today and actually pulled the 6.5 outa the donor truck! Not sure what tranny I got (5 speed manual) but I hope it has potential to hold a lil more than stock power, heres some pics. The block has a # casted in the back its 10149599 dono what castings are better than the rest but I got a deal on a complete running truck so this is what ill take.

Thanks
Joe

[trbankii]

The trans is a NV4500 - pretty stout.

[Edahall]

Well 2 cousins and me got really bored today and actually pulled the 6.5 outa the donor truck! Not sure what tranny I got (5 speed manual) but I hope it has potential to hold a lil more than stock power, heres some pics. The block has a # casted in the back its 10149599 dono what castings are better than the rest but I got a deal on a complete running truck so this is what ill take.

Thanks
Joe
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Yeah, the N4500 was also offered with the Dodge Cummins which put out considerably more power than the 6.5L. The biggest issue with them was the 5th gear nut backing out. You might want to take a look at that and do some mods so it can't back out. Also, I've heard that it's not a good idea to run too much power through it in 5th gear but I doubt the 6.5L would put down enough power for that to be a concern.