2000 silverado with complete 2004 Denali front end, possible???

[blessediam]

I just bought a 2000 Silverado has a high front hit, so it is all lights, hood, Rad, stuff like that, chassis is good, engine starts right up truck drives fine, reason I bought it I needed a pickup truck couldn't beat the price and as I've been using my Denali XL as a work truck for sometime it's not working out, my Denali has 320000 on the clock, has rust on the rear both sides, rear bumper bracket is almost rusted out completely, rear main is leaking, climate control is possessed, radio does what it wants as long as you don't want to change the station, blower now sounds like i have a family of mice loud squeaking, rear bags gone, front shocks done, radiator leaking not that bad, needs valve seals.

 

So my thought instead of putting money into it and can't really carry the materials and equipment and the fact I no longer carry the family in it, I'll find a pickup, swap the good stuff and retire the XL, my tranny a 4L80e I did at 240K, different servos, stout internals, so that guy will at some point end up in the Silverado along with a freshened 6.0 from the XL.

 

Not my first rodeo with cars but i'm not a body man, don't know if GM did any quirky stuff between Chevy and GMC, I use the Denali every weekend for my second job so it can only be down for at minimum the week, I don't want to tear the XL down and realize midway, mounting points or brackets are different then I scrambling before friday night to put things back, full front clips are fairly cheap for the Chevy but why spend if I can donate from a vehicle I know I will be parting..

 

My question is ::: can I simply bolt off the Denali fenders, hood and all forward of that and bolt it on the Silverado, this has to be a budget minded endeavor as I want to do other service stuff to the pickup, plus paint to match, it will not be a beater as I now have the ability to keep the Cabin clean the family can ride again, whenever we're not low flying in my newly acquired trailblazer SS (I love that Truck).

 

I did some searching and also asked a body shop not sure if they were trying to get the job or scare me from it but they claimed things are different..

 

 

[Chris]

The Denali should be a 4L60E. And to do the swap for the body parts, looking at the fenders, hood, and all the stuff up front. It will bolt on though. The engine is a straight swap if you tune or pay someone to update the computers so vins match. Trans will drop in as long as it is a 60 or 65e and the truck is 4wd.