Looks good so far!

 

Made a new plate to mount a Super Duty hydroboost, so my chassis brake lines should plug right in, had to cut the rod down a bit.

Got the HVAC in and the dash sitting in, missing a giant seal for the steering column I'd totally forgotten about. I'll spend the next few weekends dinking around with this stuff before getting a clutch and the hydraulics to stab the drivetrain in.

 

I've done about 250,000 of the 1 million things left to completely assemble and wire a bare cab.

The core support had to be slotted for the SD sway bar mounts so it could go back far enough.

Unsure if the Powerstroke rad will still fit, it was not slotted in that photo.

Roof had a million holes from random cab lights and a Chevy visor was screwed to it when I bought it. Welded them all shut, don't think I'm going to bother adding in the correct lights.

Dash is loosely installed, HVAC is all working, I somehow wound up with incompatible box/cable/control. Ford has a 92-mid 95 and a mid 95-97, of course I discovered that after the dash was in and bolted for the 4th time, so I took the control unit out and was able to take the knob, mechanism, and cable all off as a unit and swap to the correct stuff.

Other than that I fogged the door jams so they'll be red when the door opens and put my best doors on, one of which had a smashed window inside it where they just replaced it and left the old in the door lol.

With that I pulled it back out of the way, it's time to go back to the engine, swap pumps, swap all my cool stuff to my new pump, bolt the clutch on, mod the bearing retainer, and generally work towards having a drivetrain to jam into it, hopefully around Memorial Day.

 

Excellent work! I can't wait to see this thing running!

 

When I bout this new frame, I, for some reason, decided I should put my OBS steering shaft onto the box.

I was using a pipe wrench on it to move it around the yard and whatnot.

Last night, I installed the steering shaft seal and column, and learned, OBS shafts are 4" shorter than Super Duty shafts, and apparently, SD steering boxes are 4" further forward lol.

Anyway, finally, column is in, time to reinstall the harness and get the engine and trans together.

 

Drug this back out, got a hood yesterday at half off day at Lucky's, scuffed it all, and shot it in a single color.

Turns out I had some injection lines switched around before, so I fixed that, bolted everything back together, waiting on a new front seal to get the cover on so I can swing it up into the chassis.

I'm hoping, with my ZF5 and using a NV271 case, that I can set it back far enough to use the stock driveshafts.

 

Wow She is starting to look like a truck again nice work

 

Agreed! Can't wait to see this thing running!

 

I added a gray pearl to the clear coat and now I have a gray splotchy truck lol, won't matter much when I hit it with a tractor or back into a trailer, but I'm mildly irritated by my poor life choices here.

 

Looks like urban camo 😂

 

own it !!! some people pay BIG MONEY to get there shit looking like that. Tint the windows and slap a black flat bed on it and black out the rims and grill. It will look a heap better than 60 % of the trucks on the road today.


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Last week I made these little mount doo dads to bolt to the 6.0 mount on my frame and provide a flat spot to run a tube up to the side of the Cummins, which is handily vertical.

Also, it seems very likely I can get the whole deal in far enough back to drop onto the stock Super Duty crossmember and use the stock driveshafts.

Unfortunately I came home last night to find it all laying on it's side :/, so I drug it all out and lined it up to install at some point this week.

 

Rather than watch politics circle jerk each other, I did get this heaved up onto the crossmember, needs to go down and back, or I need to cut the dog house out to get it back as far as I need it to be to keep the stock driveshafts I fear.

 

Have you checked ds lengths of diesel vs gas engines? They usually different lengths and so are auto vs manual. Dunno if your using obs or superduty ds though I’d think making your own ds be less work than the alternative

 

The Super Duty case bolts to the ZF5, so the plan is to just do whatever it takes to set the case in the stock location.

Idk about everyone else, but I've learned over the years that when I feel like the only way forward is to start cutting everything, it's probably time to walk away for a day or so lol. Usually when I come back everything just plops into place.

 

Assuming you’re using superduty ds. Quite a difference especially in a tight situation

 

I'm not using a Super Duty driveshaft.

I'm using an entire Super Duty chassis, with the driveshafts, crossmember, axles all in and bolted up.

All I have to do is push this back until the trans mount drops on the crossmember, and the driveshafts that are already there, will bolt to the case, same as they did before.

 

Done!

Except the little adapters I made to use the 6.0 mounts don't clear the turbo drain, I might switch to the second gen mounts I got in a pile of parts

 

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Finished up the mounts, trimmed the tunnel cover, started thinking about the interior.

 

Excellent work!

 

Running now, almost time to put away for the winter lol.

 

So I have to get the turbo all put together, swap a new steering box and shaft on since I ruined mine ,run the real fuel lines, then mount the core support and fenders for real and I'll go back to my Toyota for the fall/winter.

 

Progress👍

 

Kinda cranked on this thing, it's whole, in terms of wiring, key turns power on in the cab, cranks engine, etc.

Needs radiator, transfer case, driveshafts, brakes.

Those are problems for Spring time though.

 

Loving it! I can't wait to see it on the road!

 

Holey shit it looks like a truck again!!! you must be so jacked on your progress recently. I like the look.


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Holey shit it looks like a truck again!!! you must be so jacked on your progress recently. I like the look.


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I am!

Still a million things to do to make it a whole truck, but at least people will stop asking to haul it off for scrap lol.

 

When I put this away in the fall, I had hooked up the fuel lines, but it wouldn't pull fuel for some reason from the stock Super Duty tank.

That reason was the tank was empty lol.

9 gallons of diesel and used engine oil later,