As some may know Patty and I went on a river cruise in Hungry, Austria and Germany, which hasn't anything to do with this blog except, while I was gone Farmer, Jeremy, George and Jeff (Jeremy's brother, Farmer's best friend for years) worked on the truck. I was surprised when I returned to see the work. What they did was remove the Cummings engine from the Dodge frame along with the tranny. Then they set it in the Ford truck replaced the cab (temporary) to mock it up for placement. This means they set it in and made sure everything fits and that the mounts work. It does! I think though we may have to find a transmission from a 4X4 Dodge so that the tranny and front differential will be compatible. When we find the tranny we will set it in and mock it. When everything fits right we will re-pull the engine and tranny and the cab. Then get it ready for the frame to be powder coated, the springs re-arched ( maybe add a leaf to it so it will be as a 1 ton frame). So I decided to start working on the cab a little bit more. Farmer and Jeremy and I removed the front window, and the dash, it's almost all out now. Anyway here are the pictures Farmer took while they worked.
Jeremy with the hoist removing the engine from the Dodge frame.
George guiding the engine into the Ford frame
Jeremy and George
Engine is in, of course it's coming back out to be rebuilt.
The guys set the cab back on the frame to see if everything fits
Farmer said he was taking all the pictures and he wasn't in any, so he took a selfie.
inside the cab, with most of the dash gone
This is the front of the dash, coming out.
The whole cab needs to be cleaned out and everything removed
so we can paint it and sound proof it.
Looking out the front of the cab with no front window
The window was in really good condition for a truck that is 41 yrs old.
However we will replace it
I like the way it looks, but it will look a whole lot better soon.
Until next time,
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