WOO HOO! My Cummins swap is officially underway!
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02/02/14 03:37 AM
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First off, this isn't being done by me. I'm paying for it. Built vs. bought, yadda, yadda, yadda. I'm 8000 miles away and I want it done. So the hard part will be handled by someone who has already done it several times, and I can't complain about the price. So here we go. I'm sure a lot of you know about my ugly dually. It's hideous, it has a gas guzzling 440 in it, and it's 2WD. Ugh... The guy doing the swap went to look at a truck for me, was told "I'm gonna fix it up someday," (how many times have we heard that?), and wound up finding a 91.5 donor on the scenic route home. Nice price, intercooled, 4X4, Getrag, dually, etc. SOLD! He's keeping the bale spike bed, but he's unsure about the bumper. It's beyond stout. The uprights are 0.120 wall 2X6 square tubing. I might use it. I don't know. Sorry y'all, I'm keeping the fender badges. I'm going to do all of the small detail crap, but he's doing the swap and 4X4 conversion. Thank you, tax return! Here's Big Nasty:
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Re: WOO HOO! My Cummins swap is officially underway!
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02/02/14 01:37 PM
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Have him document the project and post pics!
Do you think you'll be able to use the intercooler with the original grill?
Robert
'68 Fury Convertible '69 300 Convertible '15 Durango 5.7 Hemi '16 300 S Hemi
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Re: WOO HOO! My Cummins swap is officially underway!
[Re: 3hundred]
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02/02/14 11:35 PM
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He's going to send me pics as he goes. I have no idea how thoroughly he will, though. As far as using the old the grille, he has a 78, and he said the turn signal housings interfere with the intercooler a little bit. For brevity, he's going to swap the whole intercooled core support into my truck. He won't cut any sheetmetal to try to mate the old with the new. I'll take care of that. I want my truck to look like a factory-delivered 78 with a Cummins, so all of the old stuff is staying. If that won't work, I'll use either the NOS 74-76 or 79-80 quad lamp grilles I have. Rhino, if neither he nor I decide to use the bumper, I'll let you know. It's in Marlow, OK, though.
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Re: WOO HOO! My Cummins swap is officially underway!
[Re: 76dodgeboy]
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09/21/14 01:02 AM
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My buddies and I have built 3 of these cummins trucks. Yes the 78 grille will fit. On my own truck I used the 92 diesel rad support and swapped in the 72-76's headlight mount sections. I also had to swap in the 72-78 hood latch but you won't need to if you just use the 92 hood. These swaps work really well. I've been driving mine for many years.
Last edited by demon; 09/21/14 01:04 AM.
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Re: WOO HOO! My Cummins swap is officially underway!
[Re: dynotune440]
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09/23/14 02:20 AM
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For what its worth, I like the paint scheme on the truck currently. But I gravitate to the 70's 80's style paint jobs.
Even better would be the large, and heavy metalflake.
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Re: WOO HOO! My Cummins swap is officially underway!
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03/05/15 03:35 AM
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Jees Louise! It's been a little over 13 months since I originally posted this thread. What's happened in that time? Not much. The guy doing the work got a divorce and had to move outside of town. The good news is that he now has several acres, a shop, and no close neighbors. The bad news is that his ex drug him through the ringer with back-n-forth court visits before they finally settled their differences. However, I have used the time to accumulate some good parts: The Borgeson shaft mentioned above A full set of custom Auto Meter gauges A brand-new NV4500 with the 5th gear fix and cast iron tailhousing An Advance Adapters swap kit All new Anchor Industries engine and trans mount bushings ARP flywheel bolts And the Valair clutch and flywheel I just ordered this morning. I know it's not a lot, but I'm on a budget, and at least I'm getting the transmission taken care of. He and I also agreed to swap diffs. He's looking for 4.10s, and my donor has them. Conversely, he has 3.54s under his dually crew cab, which I've been looking for. Can you say free gear swap? BTW, he's keeping the bumper. Oh well, the uprights are in front of the turn signals in the grille, so he'll have to swap stuff around to use it. If you've read into what I've said so far, yes, he has a 78 crew cab dually, too, and it's the most recent Cummins 4x4 swap he's done. The more, the merrier! This one is his. It's actually an 84 cab, but all of the red and silver panels are from a 78. I had to remove some personal info from the pic, hence the gray rectangle.
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Re: WOO HOO! My Cummins swap is officially underway!
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03/05/15 11:28 AM
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Did the steering shaft you got have the universal or rag joint on it? Some have had problems with the universal joint shaft separating. http://www.dieseltruckresource.com/forum...y-alert-137320/
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