6 lug 3/4 ton?

[Dneel81]

those are sweet vehicles. Usually I don't see much of that redneck ingenuity here. More common on the pirate offroad forum. Nice suprise here. Keep it coming guys.

BTW, snowbound, I'm jealous of your 20" MT classics. they only make 17s now. 17s look okay on the 37s I'll run but I'd buy a set of 20s to just have sitting around to drink beer and look at.

 

[YukonandtheHOE]

Put a GMT800 on a Dodge chassis, that's a lot of work. Especially when the wheel base doesn't line up and the body mounts are way off. Just proves there's more than one way to skin a cat. I mated a 4L80e to a 12v and set it right down using dodge gen 1 mounts on the GM engine saddles. Used a ORD big block crossmember which cleared pan but barely. I'm fabbin up a compound turbo setup and got a second gen dodge IC to fit in core support. Still a work in progress only because I absolutely hate body work and my rig had quite a bit of it. Fully boxed frame with 1ton axles crossover high steer and hydro assist. This will be my wheeler where my truck is my bogger. Hats off to you, I gotta say I like the Cummins engine and contrary to popular belief it's not a Dodge engine. I get a lot of people asking me why I used a Dodge engine in my K5. Can't wait to get it road worthy, been 3.5 years in the making just doing what I can when I can. Glad to see I'm not the only one here not afraid to think outside the box.

It wasn't that bad at all, I just chopped the body perches off the ram frame and used 3/16 plate and a brake to make up the 6 main body perches then hot glue gunnned them on(Mig), The floor pan had a stamp for a shift tower. I integrated the BCM and under hood Fuse box to the engine harness with a manual Gridheater switch because i dident want to fork around with a timer. I have a Raptor Lift Pump to keep the vp44 happy relayed off the ignition switch so it doesn't burn out the ECM. Dmax Rad and IC. Still got a longg way to go. Clutch pedal and every thing else.

Not only do people not know about them being out sourced engines, I've met my share of guys that have verbal diarrhoea about VE, p7100,vp44 and cp3 fuel pumps, Then self proclaim they are Cummins "Guru's" lol

 

[Snowbound]

Awesome build. When a guy has a plan and makes it happen, he's got my respect. This may or may not work in your case because I haven't done the swap with any 800 chassis trucks but I'm pretty sure the Ford master will attach to your firewall better than the Dodge unit, the Dodge line will mate to the Ford master and use the Dodge slave as the Ford master's stroke is pretty equal to the Dodge. Don't try to use the Chevy master, it has a shorter stroke and will cause you to glaze your clutch from not releasing it totally. You'll have to get crafty with the master pushrod and may have to "hot glue" a new pin on clutch lever a little higher and graft the Ford pushrod with a Chevy pushrod to make it longer but it should be doable. I'm tired as hell, I may be thinking of the GMT400 series. But doing a little research will turn up something along them lines.

 

[YukonandtheHOE]

Awesome build. When a guy has a plan and makes it happen, he's got my respect. This may or may not work in your case because I haven't done the swap with any 800 chassis trucks but I'm pretty sure the Ford master will attach to your firewall better than the Dodge unit, the Dodge line will mate to the Ford master and use the Dodge slave as the Ford master's stroke is pretty equal to the Dodge. Don't try to use the Chevy master, it has a shorter stroke and will cause you to glaze your clutch from not releasing it totally. You'll have to get crafty with the master pushrod and may have to "hot glue" a new pin on clutch lever a little higher and graft the Ford pushrod with a Chevy pushrod to make it longer but it should be doable. I'm tired as hell, I may be thinking of the GMT400 series. But doing a little research will turn up something along them lines.

I forgot to mention, I made up a steering linkage adaptor on the lathe, hydroboost off the ram was a direct fit. I have the dash out right now to fab a clutch pedal assembly from scratch to mate up to the ram clutch master. But we are snowing like crazy now.. so it will go untouched till april. Wanted to use the KISS principle as much as i could (Keep It Simple Stupid) lol