Anyone wanna see a Chummins in the making?
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Started the day getting the cab ready for the 5 speed. Cut the hole in the carpet, and started grinding away


With the bellhousing bolted to the motor, the transmission had to go in seperately. Seemed easy, the tranny to bellhousing connection only has 4 bolts. Wasnt even close to easy, as it turns out muscling a 300lb transmission into a 1 1/4" hole is harder than it seems. We had to cut this slit to get the shifter into the cab, no big deal.

Forget to take pics of the rest, oh well. Next conundrum, we noticed the motor was slightly offset. This is why

Fixed with...

And I once again forgot to take a picture of the finished product

However...

5 speed is in. Have to get a new spring for my clutch pedal assembly, then I can finish my linkage. With that, the slave will be hooked up. Gotta reuse the Chrysler slave rod with the GM cylinder. Or just the dodge slave. Who knows.
Gentlemen, I present...

CHUMMINS!!!!
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looking better with every update!!
nice work man
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Been busy. Havent been too good with pictures. Update soon!!

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pics or it didn't happen

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