I have done a few conversions and always find it easier to keep frame and engine combo together. When i did my M37 that was not possible because the wheelbase was different and most important was the motor position. measure from the center of the front end to the tunnel in the firewall. Some cabs are further foreward then others but Dodge to Dodge should be OK.

 

Over the Christmas break I drove my 1975 D200 Club Cab Cummins power from Calgary down to Salt Lake Vegas, LA, then back up the PCH #1 and 101 to see friends and family who live along the way. The cummins is amazing in the steep mountain grades as making as much as 20 psi boost on cruise control. Fuel economy ran between 18 and 22 on the US Gallon. No problems with the truck at all. The tune is perfect, no smoke at all and my 0-40 Mobile 1 oil did not discolor at all it’s still clean now and I’m home again. In Portland I met up for coffee with Farmer_01 Doug from the Diesel Truck Resource Forum.

As well on the road I ran into Desperado of the NW Bombers forum at a Flying J fuel station. Desperado noticed my truck and said, “Hay are you a Member of the North West Bombers Forum, are you from Canada, you guys just built that Cummins 75 I was following it on the forum”

Thanks for all your help guys.

Link to road trip pic's is up at;

http://web.mac.com/rctscanadainc/iWe...Road_Trip.html

Reg

 

I'm glad all went well on your trip. I was apprehensive when I took my crewcab crosscountry. It's nice to know that no matter what goes wrong, the CTD will keep running.

 

glad to hear you made it home. four inches of snow this morning . this place grinds to a halt. cool deal to meet someone else at the flying J . did you go up the gorge and follow the 395 north to tricities.?

 

Thanks for the post Farmer, yes I did I went east just as we were talking and 395 north, its a great smooth highway, 70 mph all the way, then I went toward sandpoint and up to eastport, there was no lineup at the port and I was back in Canada on Saturday. My ULS Diesel from portland was starting to jell up on me in Cranbrook BC. I had to stop and fill up on Howes and Canadain Diesel to get all my power and smooth idle back. It was -27C in Cranbrook, roads were clear mind you. The Canadain fuel and howe sorted out my jello problems in about 10 miniutes all was back to normal.

Any of you that are coming up here with your rigs, make sure you load up on howes or you will have problems, your Diesel is not like ours in winter!
Reg

P.S.
Can you email me your full sized photos of the ones you took for your wife, for my PC and my wife, hee hee,
You can send them one at a time if the are bigger than 4 megs each.
Thanks

R

 

-27C? I'll probably wait until summer.

 

Thanks for all your help Pete. I will keep in touch with you if I'm ever down your way.

Reg

 

Looks OK this time. Will work into the June issue, on sale April 20

DW

 

Thanks for the heads up. I usually never bother with the magazines because I don't care what the hot new programmer is.

 

that truck is freakin' sweet! love the clean old school 70's ugly!

 

At first I was amazed that the 92 and 75 have measurements that close, then it dawned on me that Dodge is real slow to make drastic changes. I got the itch to do a mid 60's W 300 or W 200 swap.

Excellent job and great tech.

 

I had a '57 D600 that I bought without eng. transplanted a '55 270 ci hemi. truck gone and no pics unfortunately

at any rate, I was not interested in the stock ignition system so I went to a boneyard and got a complete electronic system out of an early '70's plymouth satellite with la eng.

distributor dropped right into place.

started almost as good as a diesel after that

tks,
rjm

 

rcts did you make the photo trip? good to see your still on. you get board i have two dodges that need to be made into one. coarse i wish my c cab was as close to a virgin as your ride. that is one nice product you ended up with. doug

 

75 D200 Club Cab Cummins Swap is in this months Diesel World Magazine.

The article is on the news stands as the September issue of Diesel World Magazine.

Pick it up and let me know what you guys think.

Reg

 

of coarse since you mentioned it here all procedes will go to the site right? go ahead give yourself a pat on the back you did nice work on that ride. hope mine turns out "factory" looking too. remember theres allways a spot to park your rig for a few days on the farm.