Project Jungle Rot. Compounded Cummins M715

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Placed back in for final mounting

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NV4500 went in like a glove

New southbend clutch

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Trans in for measuring the crossmember

Time for turbo placement.....this was a long and arduous process

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Hotpipe

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Now the fun begins. Making all the pipe to make it work. Here is the 5in exhaust brought up for downpipe fab

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I elected to run 2 slim electric fans on a toggle. Of all the Cummins I have owned, they only needed fans when in the mud or slow crawling. I also wanted to be able to kill the fans for water crossings.

Shot from the bottom up. Radiator, Intercooler, Fans, and Balancer with enough room to get the belt on no problem........without notching the firewall for the motor (this was thought to be impossible years ago haha)

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Sheetmetal back on to verify everything would button up.




And proof the firewall wasn't touched for the motor (I did cut it for turbo piping haha)

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You may notice arp head studs on last pic. Piping is being made up and injection lines painted.

Hydroboost is from a C/K 4500/5500

Some of the spaghetti tubing headache. Angles I never thought could exist in fact do

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Found this while cleaning the front metal

So I decided to do this

And then this

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Did some prep work to the front after trimming inner fenders

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Setting up hydro assist (note I have a PSC 9x2.75 DE Ram and orbital to go full hydro so I wont go into detail on the steering).

Toughed up dash

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Piping all painted


My favorite pic I took

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Steering and cross over threaded with 7/8 Heims

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Hang with me on this one. My friend had this great idea to build a cradle to hang the transmission, doubler, skid plate, and shifters off of. Here is the base. It is build with tube breakers so it can be disassembled should I need to drop the trans, or doubler.

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Here is the top part that disassembles

And how it attaches to the bottom

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Then I thought since I have it down this far......

Cab came off for new body bushings and plumbed in fittings for a heater

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One long drive train

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Bottom of the cradle had a piece of 1/4" plate cut to the contour. Notice the center pad for the transmission

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