LY6/TR6060 Swap from a 5.3/4L60E
 

Good morning to all. I have decided to record my LY6/TR6060 swap. My truck is a 1968 C10. It was basically built from the ground up. As it stands, my work truck sports a 5.5/4L60E. I just wanna make it a daily driver. I'll post pics as the builds goes on.

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Here are some pics of the pony.

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A lot has happened since I posted on this thread. Things happen behind the before one of the trucks can built, LSx swap, again. I ordered a high hump cover and installed just to yes fit. I ordered a power booster hydraulic clutch kit from CaptainFab, a board member. The LY6/TR6060 fully assembled and ready to drop in the truck. I also installed the hydraulic lines and bleeder clutch kit from Tick performance. Only thing left to do is figure out which route I can take for the wire harness to power the engine. The setup is 58x relucter wheel, with DBW. I need a throttle body and possibly a door pedal. I wish I could go DBC. But something will give. Her are some pics.

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Can you retry the pics? I'm doing a tr6060 also so I'm very interested & following along

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Yes. Updates required. I just got my stock F-Body clutch kinda figured out for my T56 in a Blazer so I am interested in your configuration. I also just purchased the Tick remote speed bleeder setup but have not installed it yet.

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I am having problems posting pics due to security tokens.

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On my 68 LS swapped C10 I mounted the ECM and relays behind the glove box. I had to section the glove box liner to make room. Then ran the wire loom for the engine under the heater box.
On a Camaro L92 swap I did a DBC throttle body from Holley. ECM and programming was from Howell. It worked well.
On a friends LS swap he used a LS3 intake and Corvette throttle body DBW. He used Speartech and it worked well.
To each his own.

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@LS Short box, Interesting. I haven't decided what harness or engine management to use yet. but I'm definitely up for ideas. My LY6 has the stock DBW throttle body. I have a L92 intake and a LS3 intake. I would like to use my stock foot pedal. I also have a stock harness and ECM and TCM to use with my set up. sooner or later ill figure it out. I'm just collecting parts.

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If you use the the DBW you won't be able to use a "stock" pedal. I believe most harness suppliers use the Corvette DBW pedal. If you go the DBC I used the Lokar pedal and Lokar cable.

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I can post pics

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A few pics

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Never loose these. They are hard to find.

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I ordered the hydraulic clutch kit from a board member, captainfab454. I gotta say it’s a wrap. His kit is awesome. He did all the hard work when it comes to playing with the clutch linkage. Thanks @captainfab454. The hydraulic clutch master cylinder is installed. I’ll post pics tomorrow when I have daylight. I’ll set up the linkage when I install the clutch pedal. No need to have a clutch pedal and I’m not shifting gears.

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Here are some pics of the clutch mounted in the engine bay. The foot pedal linkage is installed also. I need to figure out how to make each pedal the same height. As it stands now, the accelerator pedal, brake pedal, and clutch pedal all have different heights.

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Some how my pics are coming out jacked up and turned side ways. I’m sure you all have the idea. I need to find a banjo fitting because I can’t have the clutch line higher than the reservoir.

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looking good. I did the captfab kit too, the one threaded rod in the linkage inside the firewall can be adjusted to set pedal height. You should be able to play with it and get matched to the brake pedal at least. I ended up lowering my pedal almost 1/2 way down in travel, the hydraulic system seems to release the clutch without a whole lot of travel needed. With the clutch all the way up against the rubber button, I felt like my knee was up almost in the steering wheel

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I also did the Captain's Clutch kit and it worked very well. I ran a hard line from the master to a fabbed bracket, then a flex line to the slave. Also used a Tick speed bleeder.
As far a the pedal height I made a sure I had a clean clutch release then I made some adjustments to the pedal height to match the brake pedal. See attached pics.

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Awesome. @LS Short Box, that’s Avery clean install.

Just trying something out. I tried to shift the TR6060 it’s hard as heck to put in the gears. Is it possible to do the shift while the transmission is on the floor, uninstalled? Would this have something to do with the clutch engagement, hydraulics, pressure plate action. The reason I as because I wanted test the durability of my jerry rigged shifter. FYI, I do plan to buy a shifter that installs in the shifters relocation port.
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Is the engine running when you are trying to shift the trans?

If it is and its hard to engage gears, the clutch is most likely not releasing enough...

If the engine is not running but its hard to move the lever into gears, there is most likely some binding up inside the shift rails of the trans.

:chevy::chevy::chevy:

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Tried to post pics but I am having a security Token glitch. The LY6/TR6060 hasn’t been installed. 🤔 Maybe I need a professional to install this. @AussieinNC is this a good thing or bad thing?

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“I’m going in”. Pa’Tina’s new heart ❤️. Hopefully the operation will be a success.

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The LY6/TR6060 is in its place. Hopefully I won’t be changing this combo any time soon.

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My high hump transmission tunnel has some interference with transmission. I am gonna guess it’s the curved ending part. �� gotta think this out. I wanna run the oem clutch fan and the Stock a/c compressor, in the stock location. This gonna be interesting. Well I’m interested to see what happens. I will keep you all posted.

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In an effort to find the perfect drive angle, 1-5 degrees, I need to move the tail shaft of the TR6060 upwards. Upwards toward the cab. By moving it upward, I"m running out of room. The drive shaft will need some room as it spins freely. this is creating a concern for space. If your thinking cap is on, you've guessed it. The cab floor needs to be modified/raised or set the motor lower in the engine bay. I gotta mention also that the transmission may need service. So, I gotta factor in the fact that this thing gotta be able to come out easy and maneuverable. Maneuverable to the point that I can remove it and install by myself without using a large amount of curse words.

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Hello to all. The LY6/TR6060 is bolted down and runs by the E38 ecm. My tuner friend gave me a base line tune, it runs like crap, but the engine runs. I ha a old harness lying around so I modified to run the engine. Also, moving forward, I had to scrap the idea of running the clutch fan. I just don’t have the space or the time to play with it. With the the swap, other issues have come into play, such as drive shaft clearance. I achieved the perfect drive angle 2-3 degrees, by mounting an angle finder on the valley cover, under the intake manifold. For this drive shaft to spin, the cab floor may need to be modified.

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Level 7 Motorsports recently released a modified version high hump specifically for T56 trans. The page advertises:

"Our high hump transmission cover is a reproduction of the factory high hump cover, but extended further back to completely cover a Tremec T56 Magnum 6 Speed transmission. You will also have room to get the transmission up high enough to get pinion angles correct on a truck that has been significantly lowered. In the photos you will see the factory steel cover that we used to extend and how they install."

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@Tork?, thanks for the information. I'll checked it out and I may need more length. I may need to clearance the entire cab to accommodate the drive shaft. or maybe lower the motor, make it sit lower in the engine bay. I'm going thru a lot of changes to make this thing work. ill post pics when I can.

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Today was a great day. PSA, the TR6060 will stay in its place.

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Have you got a link to this?

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Last week I contemplated going back to the 4L60E due to not having the proper drive angle, having room for drive shaft clearance, and cutting up the cab floor. Once I reassessed everything the Tr6060 will stay. The motors and transmission are in and it runs. But, since the tuner benched tune the ecm the idle is high, plus the pcm needs all the sensors to properly run. I did not have coolant the block, no maf, no o2 senors plus the throttle pedal wasn’t responding. Here are some pics.

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More pics

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A few more. In this pic, I am using a sonnax adapter. The sonnax adapter will be used with a telescoping driveshaft. The driveshaft will have the slip yoke due to the fact that the TR6060 has a fixed yoke. I can adapt the the TR6060 for a fixed yoke by retrofitting the tail shaft of a T56 but that will cost some major coins. I’m cheap. I’ll just buy the telescoping driveshaft.

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Last pic. This is a pic of a telescoping driveshaft, slip yoke.

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I have one of those shafts with a good slip section sitting in the garage. I would donate it to your cause if you like. I think it has 1310 style U joints. I also have a piece of a front shaft with a good "Cardan" joint. Leftovers from a 2wd swap. The slip shaft is off of a 4 spd shortbed 4x4 1970.

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Very clean well laid out install. Where did you source the master cylinder from?

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Nice progress. I’m planning on using the Sonnax adapter as well. I hadn’t though of the telescoping driveshaft. Is that necessary?

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@splatrd, the captain fab kit cam with the master cylinder. Its an awesome kit.
@Tork? yes its needed unless you convert the tr6060 to accept an slip yoke drive shaft but its expensive. @JJzepplin, thanks for the offer. I bought a new drive shaft. my driveshaft was 55 inches long, from the center of the sonnax adapter the center of the yoke on the rear end.

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Just to update, I ordered an wiring harness off ebay. one of the cheap ones, but its actually ok. the throttle pedal is not responding, but it wasn't responding with my jerry rigged harness. the ecm is mounted, and I started wiring for the relays, check engine light fuel pump, etc. that stuff will go quick. The transmission are connected but I bought a cooler for the tr6060 to keep the transmission temps cooler. the drive shaft seems to have some interference with the cab as it slides thru the loop hole. I cant install the rear of the drive shaft. to clear the cab I think I gotta cut a recess on for drive shaft to have clearance.