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ricogomez
Posted 2016-12-20 12:06 PM (#4247)
Subject: 396 12V Cummins & 6 speed Allison Transplant


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Location: Houston, Texas
We will begin this week with the upgrade, the Cummins
came out of a 1991 Dodge Truck, the 6 Speed came from
a 2008 Duramax.

We are using a 2" thick Forged Aluminum Adapter Plate to
bolt the transmission to the Cummins and waiting to see how
much room we have left for the radiator ???, the setup is around
72" in. long including the engine fan.....

Any and all positive comments and suggestions are welcome.
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BigRabbitMan
Posted 2016-12-20 1:20 PM (#4248 - in reply to #4247)
Subject: Re: 396 12V Cummins & 6 speed Allison Transplant



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Location: Cottage Grove, OR
Be prepared to have to use a side mounted radiator given the length. A tape measure is your friend! Do lots and lots of measuring.

Start a photo album like Lenny and I did with our conversions so that the rest of us can follow along and so that you will provide a road map for any others that desire to do the same conversion.

Good luck,
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ricogomez
Posted 2016-12-20 1:27 PM (#4250 - in reply to #4247)
Subject: RE: 397 12V Cummins & 6 speed Allison Transplant


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Location: Houston, Texas
making a list and checking twice.....
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LCAC_Man
Posted 2016-12-20 3:43 PM (#4251 - in reply to #4250)
Subject: Re: 396 12V Cummins & 6 speed Allison Transplant


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You're about 4" longer than my Duramax/Allison combo. That's going to be tight. You'll need a pretty expensive stand alone conversion for that Allison, the 4 gen electronics in the TCM are not very forgiving.
You can make some crazy power with those old 12v cummins...they are heavy and loud....but they pack a punch..
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ricogomez
Posted 2016-12-20 4:07 PM (#4252 - in reply to #4247)
Subject: RE: 396 12V Cummins & 6 speed Allison Transplant


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Location: Houston, Texas
I'm going to purchase the stand alone wiring & computer from a
shop in Florida called "Cummins Allison Conversions" it coms with
a TPS sensor for th VE44 fuel pump and you are right is expensive,
that's where I got the adapter plate, Great Folks to deal with....
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LCAC_Man
Posted 2016-12-20 4:18 PM (#4253 - in reply to #4252)
Subject: Re: 396 12V Cummins & 6 speed Allison Transplant


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Location: Oceanside, CA
I think their stuff was on an episode of "TruckU". Looked like nice stuff.
Looking forward to your build. I'll offer some tips:
1. If you have the 6 row stock radiator figure out a way to keep it...it has huge cooling capacity.
2. Move the generator forward...I wish I had done this up front instead of late in my project.
3. Cut out and fabricate new engine and trans crossmembers...the originals are a waste of time.
4. Run dual alternators, this will allow you to do a lot of wiring clean up.
5. You'll have to do some type of anti-sag work to the structure, be it added structure or some version of shear plating.
6. consider at least rear air bags, they'll help with the added rear weight.
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I'll be interested in how you tackle brake assist, trans cooling and inter-cooling the turbo air, lots of ways to skin those cats..
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ricogomez
Posted 2016-12-20 4:27 PM (#4254 - in reply to #4247)
Subject: RE: 396 12V Cummins & 6 speed Allison Transplant


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Location: Houston, Texas
http://www.fmcowners.com/mbbs22/photos/photo-thumbnails.asp?albumid...

I will update our album as we go.......
we are also installing a diesel water cooled onan
I will add pictures of the Cummins, Transmission
and the Onan generator
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ricogomez
Posted 2016-12-20 4:43 PM (#4255 - in reply to #4247)
Subject: RE: 396 12V Cummins & 6 speed Allison Transplant


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Location: Houston, Texas
I will have the complete 440 & 727 combo for sale,
with all the components attached, it has under 80,000 miles.
I'm keeping the radiator assembly, we had it cleaned
about 2 years ago when we changed the Camshaft, lifters,
pushrods, timing chain and Carter carburetor.
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LCAC_Man
Posted 2017-01-13 8:26 AM (#4309 - in reply to #4247)
Subject: Re: 396 12V Cummins & 6 speed Allison Transplant


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Location: Oceanside, CA
Making progress on this? You can't leave us hanging..
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LCAC_Man
Posted 2017-03-02 6:48 AM (#4418 - in reply to #4247)
Subject: Re: 396 12V Cummins & 6 speed Allison Transplant


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Location: Oceanside, CA
2 months and no progress report...either you're "nose to the grindstone" or this project hit a snag..
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LCAC_Man
Posted 2018-01-19 2:46 PM (#5245 - in reply to #4247)
Subject: Re: 396 12V Cummins & 6 speed Allison Transplant


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Location: Oceanside, CA
Did this swap ever happen? Anyone with details?
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ricogomez
Posted 2018-01-22 2:51 PM (#5256 - in reply to #4247)
Subject: RE: 396 12V Cummins & 6 speed Allison Transplant


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Location: Houston, Texas
Hello Forum, we are still working on it, we had our first 90 mile round trip at the end of November with no problems,
we got 12.5 miles per gallon, on a stop and go Hwy towing our VW Cabriolet and Generator running under load.
No work on December lots of family functions and on January we got the Flu on and off for about 3 weeks and
in Houston its been getting dark around 5:30 pm so not much going on, and I'm still working Full Time.



Rico & Carmen
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BigRabbitMan
Posted 2018-01-22 5:44 PM (#5258 - in reply to #4247)
Subject: Re: 396 12V Cummins & 6 speed Allison Transplant



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Glad to hear that it on the road and able to travel.
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LCAC_Man
Posted 2018-01-30 9:50 AM (#5273 - in reply to #5258)
Subject: Re: 396 12V Cummins & 6 speed Allison Transplant


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Location: Oceanside, CA
Did you do a water to air intercooler?
Stand alone controller for the allison? did it retain the tap shift?
Stock radiator/fan or something custom?
Did you build a new motor mount cross member or modify the existing?
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Edd
Posted 2018-12-11 11:38 AM (#6113 - in reply to #4247)
Subject: RE: 396 12V Cummins & 6 speed Allison Transplant


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What did you end up with for the radiator?
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ricogomez
Posted 2018-12-12 9:13 PM (#6115 - in reply to #4247)
Subject: RE: 397 12V Cummins (Non-Intercooled) & 6 speed Allison Transplant


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Location: Houston, Texas
Engine is the Early edition non-intercooled type...

Transmission with a stand alone ECU with tap shifter
and small LCD panel to display and keep an eye on the
transmission gears, it will display your manual shift
setting as well as the transmission’s gear when shifting.

We modified the existing engine frame mounts to fit the Cummins

The aluminum 3 core Radiator came from a 83-94 Ford Diesel F350 Truck,
with a 24” 10 blades Plastic fan. (EBAY)

Radiator was positioned all the way back as far as we could go
and it sits low in order to positioned the fan in the center, we barely had
just enough space Thanks to the 2” thick transmission & engine
Forged aluminum adapter plate we used.

We also used part of the old original radiator fan shroud and customize it
fit our new fan.

Rico & Carmen


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andy1canada
Posted 2018-12-13 10:26 PM (#6118 - in reply to #4247)
Subject: Re: 396 12V Cummins & 6 speed Allison Transplant


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Location: Victoria, BC. Canada
Hey Rico Buddy!

Is this your genset: HDKBB ?

If so, the specs I read on it says she's a 400-pounder! That's plus 40 pounds or so over the OEM Onan 6500 we all had/have in there.

If excess butt-weight becomes an issue for you, there's 200 pounds or more to be saved with the genny-swap.

Terry
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