'72 4x4 diesel

[wildwilly4x4]

Heres a lil bit of what i've been working on. I am new to these trucks and this forum, so heres what i've got going. I got an old '72 longbed 4x4 that was fixing to be crushed for $100 at a junkyard. My old military chevy 4x4 was taking up too much room,so i thought i'd build me a '72 diesel 4x4. I started by junking the long bed(it was rusted bad), cut 12" out of the frame and bought a short stepside off a kid I grew up with for $200. I nabbed a couple of nice doors from a salvage yard and started welding, fabbing, and cutting to get this all to work. I used the whole 4x4 engine crossmember out of my military 1 ton (cut,hacked and massaged into the '72 frame). Next I stabbed in the turbo 6.5 diesel and the dana 60/14 bolt out of the military rig. Since my '72 was originally an auto, I went to the salvage yard again to get a clutch pedal and manual steering column to clean up the interior. I modded the hydroboost system to fit the firewall, and mounted a hydraulic clutch master next to it. I'll be using a '97 nv4500/np205 combo that I had laying around for gear duty in this rig. As I tore the trck down I started painting the underbody/firewall with implement spray paint( IHC red), and will be shooting the entire truck this color once I have it all back together and running. Heres some pics of where Im at as of now.