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Finished Finally!!!! Wow!!!!
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Finished Finally!!!! Wow!!!!

Drove my commonrail powered 98 home last night, Wow was it worth it!!! After tightening the last bolt I filled the engine with coolant and fired it up. After the t-stat opened and one last search for leaks or problems, I closed the hood and took it for a drive at almost midnight! It ran perfect, the transition from 12v to commonrail went perfect, no check-engine lights, everything worked flawless!!! It is like driving a new truck, the 12v I took out would definatly eat the *** out of the C/R, but the c/r would give it a good run! The c/r is still stock 325hp so it would be expected that my faithfull 12v stronger with the mods I had. I just finished loading the revo/tnt software into my smarty but have never used a smarty before so I dont know what the catcher levels for the tnt programs are. what am I safe with? When I was re-flashing the ecm on the engine I discovered the engine was a 07 not an 06, the motor is bone stock, I am running a bhaf, 4" exhaust and a holley blue supply pump. My trans is a 47/48re built, no billet shafts, TCS billet 3-disc low stall convertor, stock flex-plate. any ideas?

Special Thank's to all my friends who helped contribute to this swap!!!
Rusty @ TCS
Scott @ De-Stroked
Bob @ Smarty
Kirk @ Premier Performance
Crew @ Autoworld
Bean @ Beans Diesel Performance
Robert @ Continental transmission

Special Laughs For the people who were to good to help, or gave more screwed up information than a retard could give me!!!

Painless performance , Thank's for nothin but lies! threw your crap in the garbage, Worst tech support ever!!!! 1000.00 down the ****ter!

Fordcummins.com all I can say is they should fire the blind third grader that is doing their welding, and the moron who designed the kit's! Funny how their
bell-housing adapters look very similar to a prototype of someone else's adapter, almost like a copy? who the hell would butcher a good trans case??? nuff said...

and to all the know nothing "know-it-alls" who told me that various components wouldnt work or I would have to do this or that to make it fit, etc. Don't give people info if you dont really know if it is right or not, thank-you for attempting to help, but your info could have cost me big dough if I would have listened. fortunately I went with my instinct and it payed off!


The only 2 glitches in the whole swap were a result of faulty parts, other than that everything worked perfect from the first try, It runs like it came in the truck from the factory! will post pics of the whole install.
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1998 2500 4x4 cc sb Just installed 07 common-rail!!!BHAF, 4" exh, 2 stage water/meth, Holley Blue pump, Smarty Revo/TNT, TCS low stall triple-disc coverter, built 48re trans, custom remote trans-cooler, 35's, 01 sport nose. Old motor:12v, honed 370's, #5 plate, HX-40 38psi,191DV's,3k gov,
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