7.3 swap

[83ford]

Ok so I'm looking at swapping in my 7.3 here in a bout a month because I'm getting a moose juinor and hopefully adding my turbo soon also and I know I can't do it on my 6.9 because my maxed pump is all it can handle and I go threw about 2 gallons of water a week and a gallon of oil a week so I know I'll blow it apart as soon as I get the pump on there alone. Anyway how hard is the swap. I know it's a direct bolt in but what about the wiring and also is anyone running a moose juinor without a turbo. How bad is y'all's fuel mileage


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[icanfixall]

Can you tell us how complete the 7.3 is compared to the 6.9 you will be removing. Reason for this question is the 7.3 generally has the ZD 9 glow plugs instead of the ZD1 like is found in most 6.9 engines. Also the 7.3 has a much better solid state glow plug controller too. You could but I suggest not doing it, run the 6.9 controller and glow plugs in the 7.3 if push came to shove and you really needed a running engine. If the 7.3 has the engine wire harness and controller on it then it is a plug n play swap.
There are many suggestion on how best to remove and install the engine. Lifting the engine up over the core support is a reach but doable. I have done mine several times like that. First time I did not even remove the hood. A better idea was to unbolt the hood springs and use a 2x4 to prop open the hood during removal or install. I had both batteries out and could place the 2x4 in the battery tray up to the hood. Worked well too.

 

[83ford]

The motor is in my 83 right now am gonna go in my 86 it did have the harness I can't remember if we cut into it or not cause the guy that did the swap for us when I was younger made everything a hack job I'll have to look at it tommorrow but I do know the 7.3 controler is not there because we couldn't get it to work and just decided to use the 6.9 style


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[83ford]

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. The motor is complete other then acouple things that are on my motor but it was a strong runner I'm just not sure on the harness. Can I just use my 6.9 one cause I'd rather use the 6.9 style glow plug controler out of simplicity


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