Excursion conversion
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Excursion conversion
Anyone done or heard of dropping a Ex body on to a 2015 F350 6.7 diesel frame / drive train? If you have the complete donor truck, I would think the hardest part would be tying some of the EX's interior electronics together. You would have issues with a gas tank / filler tube, and probably body mount frame perches. You would gain the front coil susp., 6 speed auto, elect lock rear axle, huge hp and torq gains. All the wiring and modules would come with the donor, might have to combine the dash components. I do major mods at my business, just wondering if anyone has gone done this road......
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Becoming very popular in Miami, there's A couple small companies doing this here now.
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I would think grafting the front truck frame to an Excursion rear frame would be easier (and more correct) than trying to build a bunch of perches for the Ex body to sit on an entire truck frame. The rear of the frame is totally different between an Ex and a truck.
The issue with the gas tank isn't going to be fixed with a filler tube, as the gas tanks are in totally different locations- you'd have to use an Ex gas tank.
Electrical- it wouldn't be too bad if you were using the truck's dash and harnesses. Then, the biggest pain would be figuring out the rear HVAC (unless you want to duplicate the rare "stripper" Excursions like the government bought that didn't have rear HVAC). Other than that, you're just adding a few circuits for things the Ex has that the truck doesn't: rear power points, quarter flip windows (and that wasn't on all Excursions), etc.
If you start with a truck that was a crew cab, then you'd have the newer wiring for all 4 Excursion doors.
The issue with the gas tank isn't going to be fixed with a filler tube, as the gas tanks are in totally different locations- you'd have to use an Ex gas tank.
Electrical- it wouldn't be too bad if you were using the truck's dash and harnesses. Then, the biggest pain would be figuring out the rear HVAC (unless you want to duplicate the rare "stripper" Excursions like the government bought that didn't have rear HVAC). Other than that, you're just adding a few circuits for things the Ex has that the truck doesn't: rear power points, quarter flip windows (and that wasn't on all Excursions), etc.
If you start with a truck that was a crew cab, then you'd have the newer wiring for all 4 Excursion doors.
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