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Trail Clean Up Truck Project w/pics

Chodge Podge said:
Reborn again!

I am now the current owner of the truck and did the cummins swap.
I bought this truck last year and have slowly been working out the kinks and making a daily driver. Will try and keep this project going and get some new pics!!:woot:
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Sweet! :waytogo:

Keep us posted! I'd love to see it continue. I would have kept it and moved forward if I could have and if interest hadn't dropped off.

Was glad to see all the "clean up trailers" it inspired!:waytogo:
 
I'm terrible about taking pictures, and not a very good a mechanic either ;)
When I did the cummins swap I did a shoddy job and put a motor in that I couldn't test first. I didn't take many pics at that time. However, I am currently redoing my swap and installing a p-pumped cummins. I promise ill get some pictures and post a good description of what I got going on.

Thanks for the interest, I know a lot of hard work has went into this truck, and it has a interesting story to tell.

Ill look up how to post pictures and get you all updated!:popcorn:
 
Ok ill try to get this updated, I've had some PC issues.

So, I bought this truck from a guy in Houston, who had it from a guy in Austin/San Antonio (I cant remember), who got it from Xtreemjeepn. This has been a 4-5? year process. I love the fact that the history of this truck has been catalogued by a variety of threads and websites through the years and lots of time, effort, and dreams have went into the creation of this beast. A lot of good intentions have been invested into it and I hope to maintain that spirit and see them through. I'm not the kind of guy who usually is any good at wrenching, I've been told I lack common sense.:doah: However, this truck has drove me into a new hobby and I think that has a lot to do with the efforts that came before me. So thanks to the original builders, I hope to finish it in the spirit which they were started, and if anyone is interested in checking it out I'm cool with that.

Enough of that.

This truck came with a 454/700r4 combo. It ran pretty good, had to fix a few things, but overall it was easily drivable as it was. I bought this as a fixer-upper/daily driver. It was obvious the 454 was too big of a gas hog to be very feasible. As usual I over thought the problem and decided to cummins swap the truck. In hind sight I should have 6.0 LS swapped it with the 700r4 built up and left it alone. However, I love my cummins so there is no going back.

I bought a partial 4x4 92 D250 with unknown miles and auto tranny. The motor ran but nothing was hooked up so I really didn't know the condition of it. I did get the truck cheap so I went with it. We yanked the powertrain while I put a few miles on the chevy to see if it was good to go. Ill have it noted here that I kind of rednecked this thing together the first time and as I finish this build Ill try to redeem myself.

Ive posted a few pics of the first motor swap (spoiler alert!) and ill continue updating this thread soon now that I somewhat have the PC thing figured out. I will say now that I'm currently finishing my second motor swap on this thing so I have a lot of catch up to do.:popcorn:

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I'm here and more than happy to answer any questions about the original build.:waytogo:

I really wish I could have kept it but interest had died in the project (not by me) and it had just sat here taking up space I didn't have. Eventually, painfully, I had to sell it.
 
Since I did the initial swap a year ago I'm just operating off of memory so if I miss a step anyone has a question about feel free to chime in.

While we pulled the dodge into the shop I was driving the chevy to get a feel for it. The dodge front clip was missing because someone had stole parts to convert their non intercooled cummins to intercooled. So I basically cranked up the music and went to town yanking the truck apart. I knew somewhere below the grime was a tired old cummins wanting a second chance in life.

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I had bought a brand new engine hoist for the project because I had no way of picking the motor. We picked up the motor, tranny, and transfer case all together. This is a bad idea and I highly discourage anyone from doing this! I torqued my brand new hoist...... Tons of prying, pushing and grunting later we got it out.

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The next day we pulled the chevy in and started the tear down.

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Got the new mounts in and stabbed the cummins.

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This is one of my helpers on this journey (brother)

Im not sure who manufactured the mounts and crossmembers. If someone recognizes them then chime in please. I like this kit, it beefs up the support and ties the frame together to help handle the torque. It uses the factory chevy isolators which dont hold up well as I learned later. A person may be better off trying to make mounts to use the stock first gen cummins isolators.

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I have to admit, and I doubt I'm the first to have done this, but I was not very realistic with my self and how much money this would really cost me to do it right. You live and learn. This been said, don't be surprised when you see, bailing wire, duct tape, bubble gum, and other redneck engineered devices. I just had to get this thing running so my wife wouldn't give up on me.:haha:

This would have been the ideal time to crack the motor apart and inspect internals and do a few other mods, but for some reason I chanced it and just tossed it in. Good news is, I hit it with some fuel and a jump and it fires right up. (this is where i mention the motor hasn't ran in years) :woot:
 
Chodge Podge, do you still have this truck? I am the guy you got it from in Houston. Just checking to see where it is now.
 
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