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Originally Posted by jwilson645
I think 84chevyguy hit on the best solution above. Graft the 78 cab to the floor & firewall of the 06. A good buddy of mine used this process to sit a 66 Impala onto a Yukon Denali chassis. Now he has an AWD, 6.0L 66 Impala that he can tow his 1 ton Jeep with.
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I honestly think that's a worse one in this case the solid axle k30 would be a much stronger set up. plus your going to have do things like weld custom body mounts, make custom bumper mounts, floor pan mods, custom fuel tank filler, the frame is going to need maybe shortened in certain places and lengthened in certain spots, figuring up the steering linkage, build a hybrid core support from the k30 and the new truck, and lastly you would have a lot more wiring. with the old truck can keep all the wiring and just add in the small amount you need to run the dmax ally and the tc. the tc would pretty much be a sesnor or 2 that should be in the engine/trans harness as long as use manual shift one. the only other thing is if you want to keep tapshift th and possibly the cruise. im not sure on cruise. anyhow you would need the bcm and basically 3 buttons or make a new shifter work. now to keep it where you can see the the dcim you just need to keep the cluster( you don't have to use the whole thing if you want a stock looking dash). just used the board from a cluster and desolder the display and run a ribbon cable to it so its mountable where ever you feel. hidden radio and mount it there would be nice. still anyway you look at it its a lot of work.