fuel system questions 82 3/4 diesel to bb carb/tbi

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got another truck............works for me, kind of, too tired to strip another vehicle. I need a 3/4 truck to replace my 398,000 mile 99 burb with original motor/trans and rear. It stil looks good but is worn out but not smoking or slipping or wining.

Got this 82 3/4 6.2 truck today decent shape, except for interior, fully equipped and woooo hooo factory 16 inch wheels, finally! The top of the 6.2 is sitting in the interior, I was tempted for about 10 minutes but the 6.2 is coming out and a nice slightly built 454 is going in. First it will be carbed and keeping the 700r then down the road I will convert it to TBI with 480le over the winter. I have a complete BB/480le tbi set up sitting in a old uhaul truck.

I am doing a down and dirty swap to a 454 and getting this thing on the road.

What do I need to do to get the dual tank diesel set up to a manual gas engine mounted fuel pump?

Plus any problems connecting the BB to a 700r other than the TV cable stuff. Any suggestion on how to set that TV cable set up.

I like the hydro boost brake system, the way heavy duty cooling system and that the cab had complete A/C. Plus it has a 3:73 14 bolt rear, no tag on glove box sio don't know if it is posi.

help guys. Is this swap obvious or are there hidden problems. I will pull the fuel tanks and clean them out but I should be able to use the stock sending units if they are in good shape. My BB fuel pump and a return line, figure out to hook it up or go with a regular non return fuel pump? No problems with vapor lock. I have a set of exhaust heat shields I will install off of a truck that had a utility bed, they seems to have vapor lock problems because of the utility bed and dual exhaust. The shields help but the return line actually fixes it .

I want to do this swap as cheap as possible using what I have qnd with the least amount of work because of medical issue's


Thanks for any and all idea's, suggestions and thoughts that fit my program! Thanks in advance

Steve