Thanks for opening this.
For those interested, I bought this truck a few months ago, although not from Kasey. I found it randomly on Craigslist, and worked out a deal with the guy. I started doing some research before I drove the 1200 miles to get it, and found that almost everything the guy had said was a lie. The only reason I still got the Excursion after being misled, is because I stumbled on this thread and found where Kasey had actually done the conversion.
To make a long story short, I limped it back at 42 mph max speed nearly all the way home due to transmission issues. It turned into 32 hour straight through trip to make it back home in time for work...I was an hour late but made it.
The Excursion had the 5R110 automatic transmission in it. I opted to pull it out and put in a ZF6 in it's place. I'll update the thread with details and pics later.
More to come...
--Eric