I'm new to the forum, but not new to the Duramax world.
I own a shop "Tommy's Auto in Springville, UT". We buy salvage Duramax trucks and rebuild them, been doing the rebuild thing for 39 years. We also have approximately 60 Duramax trucks from LB7 to L5P that we part out.
The reason I joined the forum is because I'm toying with the idea of building me a 2006 Silverado 2500 crew cab short bed, but I'm going use a complete rolling frame from a 2015 because of how much stronger they are, the heavier suspension, and bigger brakes. I was going to go with a built LBZ, but now thinking L5P and maybe the 10-speed.
YEAH, I KNOW, here comes all the comments about why go to that much trouble? Or, it's not worth the time and effort. Well that's for me to decide what to do with my time and money. Sorry for the rant, but you all know it's coming.
I know a few people have done similar swaps and I would be SOOO grateful for any information on do's and don'ts about a swap like this.
The pictures are of the last 2006 GMC LBZ that I built a couple of years ago, it had only 66K miles on it.
I own a shop "Tommy's Auto in Springville, UT". We buy salvage Duramax trucks and rebuild them, been doing the rebuild thing for 39 years. We also have approximately 60 Duramax trucks from LB7 to L5P that we part out.
The reason I joined the forum is because I'm toying with the idea of building me a 2006 Silverado 2500 crew cab short bed, but I'm going use a complete rolling frame from a 2015 because of how much stronger they are, the heavier suspension, and bigger brakes. I was going to go with a built LBZ, but now thinking L5P and maybe the 10-speed.
YEAH, I KNOW, here comes all the comments about why go to that much trouble? Or, it's not worth the time and effort. Well that's for me to decide what to do with my time and money. Sorry for the rant, but you all know it's coming.
I know a few people have done similar swaps and I would be SOOO grateful for any information on do's and don'ts about a swap like this.
The pictures are of the last 2006 GMC LBZ that I built a couple of years ago, it had only 66K miles on it.
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