RustyBolts
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Well thanks for the welcome. I'm slowly learning to bite my tongue when i see a cummins in anything but a dodge.
Wow, coming in swinging. Welcome aboard! I hear your passion, but, doing a Ford/Cummins is keeping it in the family. Ford puts Cummins B series in their MDs all the time, and sometimes they get Allison transmissions, which originally were GM owned at one time. Then there's that Detroit Diesel Series 40 which is actually a Navistar DT series engine. I could go on and on, but won't.
You really are going to have a problem with GenLightning then; he put an IH 7.3 IDI into a Chevy. Nice swap, too.
Then there's that one guy in New Zealand who has a 6.5 GM in an F250 ambulance...........
Taking pictures isn't my thing, but here's some I have on the computer. There's a 4BT into a friends 94 F250, My '70 before tearing it apart to frame off and install the 4.5/ZF and the last two are of the 4BT/M5R2 71 I recently sold.
any pics of that throttle cable setup in that 94?
Hey dukedrummer89, are you running a manual, or electric shutoff on that P pump?
The 4BT that went into the '94 was from a Ford E350 Grumman van. It bolted right in, no mods whatsoever sans fitting an IC and grounding the fuel pump relay to get the fuel pumps to run whenever the key is on. The throttle cable came off the EFI 300 that was in it and clipped right onto the bracket on the IP.
Your P7100 is totally different from a VE. If you have the dodge throttle trapeze garbage on your IP my advice is throw it away because it makes for a stiff pedal and when it wears out it will break when you least want it to and costs far more than it's worth to fix.
To make a cable throttle fit a P7100 pump I remove the shutoff solenoid bracket and weld a couple inch piece of 1/4X3/4" steel flatbar off the rear with a brace directly over the throttle linkage. You will need to build a small dog leg shaped throttle arm to bolt to the existing forged steel arm that's on there that will hang off to the rear and allow the throttle arm to operate in an up-down fashion instead of a fore-aft fashion.
In the bracket off the shutoff solenoid bracket drill and tap a hole directly over your new dogleg bracket for 1/4" NPT and buy a 1/4" brass fitting that has a 1/4" compression fitting on the other end. Most all pickup throttle cables are 1/4" OD. Using a die grinder cut the end off your old throttle cable, pull the cable out of the inside of it and cut the outside sheathe to length to fit in the compression fitting with nice gradual bends. Put the inner cable back in.
To attach the cable you can buy a number of contraptions made for bicycles, bikes and racing applications or you can just make your own. I like to take a small 1/4" steel clevis with female threads in the non-clevis end, drill a hole into the threads pointing out the end of the clevis at 45 degrees about 1/2" from the end, then take a bolt the right thread and length to fit the threads in the clevis with room for a jamb nut and drill a 3/32" hole through it's center for the cable to fit through. This sounds complex, but it's really simple. You stick the cable through the bolt, through the end of the clevis and out the side of the clevis through the hole you drilled, adjust it to the length you need and tighten the bolt down locking it in place with a jamb nut.
Doing the throttle this way works well, looks really sharp and makes for a much nicer pedal feel than the dodge trapeze junk.
electric... this aint a 70's backhoe