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Old Mar 27, 2017 | 05:24 PM
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In switching my truck to a manual from a auto, if I used a manual pcm and the manual transmission wiring harness, will I still have wiring issues? Here's th truck I got, I'll be parting it out after my swap is done. And are you guys sure the 7.3 idi and the 7.3 powerstroke transmission will interchange? Lol
 
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Old Mar 27, 2017 | 05:31 PM
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The transmission will interchange. AFAIK, the wiring will be completely incompatible. You'll obviously need a manual PCM from a donor truck. Only wiring changes you should have to make would be to connect up the clutch switch, jumper the start terminals on the decommissioned NSS connector, and run a connector from the reverse light terminals on the NSS connector to the reverse light switch on the donor tranny. That connector is available on RockAuto, IIRC $10 and change.

You'll also need a rear driveshaft, if the red-white-red two-tone in the photo is the recipient.
 
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Old Mar 27, 2017 | 06:11 PM
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The transmission will interchange. AFAIK, the wiring will be completely incompatible. You'll obviously need a manual PCM from a donor truck. Only wiring changes you should have to make would be to connect up the clutch switch, jumper the start terminals on thedecommissioned NSS connector , and run a connector from the reverse light terminals on the NSS connector to the reverse light switch on the donor tranny. That connector is available on RockAuto, IIRC $10 and change.

You'll also need a rear driveshaft, if the red-white-red two-tone in the photo is the recipient.
I'm going to have my pcm re flashed to a manual. When you say the wiring will be completely in compatible, do you mean the manual trans wiring harness won't work on my truck? And what is a decommissioned NSS connector? I don't really care about my reverse lights.
 
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Old Mar 27, 2017 | 08:49 PM
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I'm going to have my pcm re flashed to a manual. When you say the wiring will be completely in compatible, do you mean the manual trans wiring harness won't work on my truck? And what is a decommissioned NSS connector? I don't really care about my reverse lights.
Decommissioned - no longer used. Kind of like that trailer of yours should be.

He means that the NSS will no longer be used when you swap in a ZF trans. However, with an unflashed auto PCM the truck will be throwing a bunch of codes for the transmission as it thinks there's an auto in there when in reality it's a stick.

The truck won't start unless you jumper the two start terminals in the plug to trick the auto PCM into thinking the truck is in park/neutral.

Even if you "don't really care" about your reverse lights it's literally one more wire you need to hookup and will take maybe another 5 minutes. Just hook it up.

The wiring is totally different from IDI to PS.
 
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Old Mar 28, 2017 | 02:35 AM
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So am I better off keeping my auto pcm and using my auto harness?
 
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