I am getting ready to put a cummins 12v in my k2500 Suburban, and thought this could help people on here. I have looked for the 6.5 diesel exact weight and couldn't find it. I scaled it using an 1100 lb Northern tool hanging scale. I confirmed accuracy by weighing myself with the hanging cale and confirming with my bathroom digital. They were accurate to within .2lbs.



First I weighed the engine(minus accessories and crossover pipe) with chain weight included-758lbs

All accessories/ crossover(minus ac)-66.1lbs

Chain weight-28.4


Engine assembly DRY with flexplate minus wiring harness, starter, and ac compressor.
-------795.7 LBS

Hope it helps someone

 

Ok so what is the 6.5 and what is the cummins?
Or are all the weights mentioned 6.5-if so what does the cummins weigh?

 

All weights are for 1996 k2500 vin F 6.5L Suburban

Being that this is posted in the Chevy/GMC 6.2 and 6.5 discussion, I thought it would be clear that these weights are for a 6.5L detroit diesel. The engine was pulled for a 1996 k2500 vin F suburban.

The cummins is a motor found in 1990's dodge trucks, and some medium duty truck applications.

Not trying to be rude, but WTF . The 6.5 is the engine in your truck..

If you have to ask what the 6.5 and cummins are, you probably need to start with reading the stickies.

 

If you are going to put a cummins in your truck and are posting weights of engines-its a perfectly normal question to ask what of the 2 weights posted each applies to?

You posted 2 different weights and it was not clear if both were 6.5 weights or if 1 was 6.5 and 1 was cummins.

It would be nice to know for those who are also gonna do the swap if the 2 engines are close enough in weight that suspension mods need not be done or are stiffer/lighter springs required?

No need to be a smart *** when what you put is clear as mud.
Take a bit of a look here and decide for yourself if I know what a 6.5 engine is-if you read both my questions together it should have been obvious that I was asking about weights in the first 1-not how do identify each engine.

 

Agreed that is a much more constructive question. Let me clarify.

Weight of a 1996 k2500 6.5 Turbo VIN F Engine assembly DRY
WITH flexplate, turbo, accessories,and crossover pipe
BUT WITHOUT without AC compressor, starter, and wiring harness

IS 795.7 LBS


The question about cummins weight is a valid one. I do not yet have the 6BT cummins 12V motor, so I cant weight it. From what I have read, they come in at somewhere between 1000-1100 lbs. So 200-300 lbs difference. Like a person sitting on the hood. Weight will not be a bigger issue. Most difficulty comes from engine clearances, mounts, dealing with gauges, abs, plumbing, wiring, etc. People who have done the swap on suburbans say they have gotten by with simply cranking torsion bars up some. Probably not ideal though. Like the P400 swap, the cummins swap can cause front diff clearance issues. Hood and or body clearance issues can be a problem as well depending on trans selection etc. A small body lift would make things easier for sure.
If this is something you are really thinking about doing I suggest researching the F@#* out of it. There is a long list of things that would have to be done.

I did not understand your question initially. Thought you were really not educated on the topic, or being a smartass. I guess we are both being clear as mud..

 

Always better to try and word the posts as if the biggest moron you know is the one reading it,and then make it so even they can understand what you are trying to get across.

I do my best to do that and when it comes to something in print it seems as though it can and often does get taken the wrong way.

 

Awesome info.
Totally understood