84 Crewcab...AKA..Patches

I actually snatched the gooseneck ball mount nut loose in the crossbar in my dually. It was apparently a homebrew setup, one that held up until I hooked my tri axle 36' trailer to it and pulled it...with a grabby sintered iron dual disk clutch. That was the breaking point. It was an eye opening experience to have the front of the trailer rise 5 or 6 feet off the truck bed floor, ball still firmly locked into the trailer tongue, when I started driving the 6 liter ford with blown headgaskets onto the ramps.
 
Diplomat_Wagon said:
That goose-neck bar is frightening.
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Here's another frightening pic....

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One good booger weld away from disaster...like what V8440 mentioned.....:dooh:
 
Got the frame all cleaned up and painted. Took a couple hours...ate through a few grinding disc. Found out that they tend to explode if you get them too hot....:shifty:

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Pressure washed the frame and then managed to wrestle the box out of the back yard with the help of two neighbours. Then through a 3 1/2 foot wide gate beside the house and onto the truck.

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Six of the eight bolts went right in and the box is loosely secured right now.

The two bolts by the fuel tank were missing and angle iron was welded in place on teh old box. Now with teh new box I see that there must have been brackets involved with mounting the box in this location to the outside of the frame.

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There are rivets that were obviously ground down to remove ??? I am assuming it was the brackets I'm missing. Tomorrow I will build a couple brackets, that will use the rivets and then I will plug weld the brackets to the existing rivets.
 
cow if your not in a hurry for those brackets i have an old frame here i should be able to torch em off of..i know what ones you need
 
Thanks for the offer 69...but I'm half done making the new ones. Plus I want those brackets on before I bolt the rest of the box tight.
 
Personally, I'd probably torque down the rest of the box to FSM specs first, then position the new ones and weld them into place. That way, you know exactly where they need to be.

Just a suggestion.
 
Fishy said:
He can't put it back on. I have it! :D
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I've cornered the market on them around here, though most of them look pretty frazzled. ;)
I'm contemplating a 2007 6.7, backed by an '02 NV5600 6 speed into a 2WD 1983 Crew Scab Dually I have laying around.
Toss in a Dana 80 with 3.55s and 19.5 wheel tire combo and go back to haulin'. :D

Mark.
 
Well I finished the brackets today...used the metal from a couple of the brackets I cut off the frame to build them....no that's recycling!! Box is now bolted down tight and secure.

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Now to figure out how to mount the trim...???
 
Mark....you know I never noticed that your ramp hauler in your sig pic had a pre-80 hood on it. Your thoughts on the drive train for the old 83 Crew sounds pretty good...but why a 6.7?
 
Without a particulate trap or other emissions on it, the 6.7 is a freakin' beast, that's why. The shop I keep recommending you guys to call does this stuff all the time. Those guys live to build power from diesels, and though I'm not a diesel guy, when you have people from as far away North Dakota and Iowa coming to a shop in tiny little Florence, Wisconsin you must be doing something right.
 
Dr.Jass said:
Without a particulate trap or other emissions on it, the 6.7 is a freakin' beast, that's why...
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This pretty well sums it up, plus the fact that if you're going to leave it electronic, the injector design on the 6.7 addressed the problems that the 5.9 injectors had and now there are significantly less failures due to injectors.
If a person wants to do away with the emissions on a 6.7 and doesn't have access to the proper equipment to do the ECM deletes, he can drop down to the '06-'07 5.9 ecm and muddle it and the wiring onto a 6.7.

PLUS the '06 and '07 5.9 ECM will run EFI Live.
Imagine being able to do that in an older truck!

But then again, I also have it figured out on how to put a Rotary or Inline pump on the 6.7, as well. :hmmm:

Mark.
 
My vote would be to p pump it if you have access to a p pump front cover and the rest of the stuff. Though the flexibility of the cr stuff is nice...
 
Every guy that works at Kurtz Diesel drives a diesel pickup, and I think all but one are Cummins Dodges. Their reputation comes not from their ability to fix OTR trucks, but their abilities to make a lot more power out of anything compression-ignition. That's the great thing about working on big trucks--they go all over the country, and those boys like to talk. This is why Steve's shop has people coming from so far away. They never half-ass anything because their reputation rides on their work, no matter whether it's the local DuraMax or a Michigan log truck. It has to make that power reliably. They won't put a tuner in a truck if they know turning it "to 11" will hurt it; they'll make sure everything's in place to make the most of that tuner and let the truck live. Ever seen a 48RE chirp the tires on lockup? I have, and it was a four-door dually with a locking diff.

No, they're not going to be the cheapest. They want to be the best, and that's the reputation they have in the midwest.
 
I wish! :D These guys are friends of mine that really know their shit. I know of more than one person that had their pickup hopped up, and later came back with their semi acting like a 4-year-old: "Do it again! Do it again!" They've all been happy.
 
I'd love to have a 6.7 Cummins! My '03 5.9 is great, and could be a monster in it's own right, but the EGR/DPF deleted 6.7 would be sweet.

I'd like to find an older, 50's Dodge truck, make it a crew cab and put it on my chassis.
 
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